(1921)
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Warm sun, quiet air an old man sits in the doorway of a broken house— boards for windows
The crowd at the ball game is moved uniformly by a spirit of uselessness which delights them— all the exciting detail
The brutal Lord of All will rip us from each other—leave the one to suffer here alone. No need belief in god or hell to postulate that much. The dance: hands touching, leaves touch...
If you had come away with me into another state we had been quiet together. But there the sun coming up out of the nothing beyond the lake…
A three-day-long rain from the eas… an terminable talking, talking of no consequence—patter, patter,… Hand in hand little winds blow the thin streams aslant.
Let the snake wait under his weed and the writing be of words, slow and quick, sharp to strike, quiet to wait,
THERE is a bird in the poplars— It is the sun! The leaves are little yellow fish Swimming in the river; The bird skims above them—
beauty is a shell from the sea where she rules triumphant till love has had its way with her scallops and
SOFT as the bed in the earth Where a stone has lain— So soft, so smooth and so cool, Spring closes me in With her arms and her hands.
School is over. It is too hot to walk at ease. At ease in light frocks they walk the stre… to while the time away. They have grown tall. They hold
If a man can say of his life or any moment of his life, There is nothing more to be desired! his st… becomes like that told in the famo… double sonnet—but without the
You sullen pig of a man you force me into the mud with your stinking ash-cart! Brother! —if we were rich
Her body is not so white as anemone petals nor so smooth ——nor so remote a thing. It is a field of the wild carrot taking the field by force; the grass
Yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow! It is not a color. It is summer! It is the wind on a willow, the lap of waves, the shadow
Constantly near you, I never in m… sixty-four years knew you so well… or half so well. We talked. you we… so lucid, so disengaged from all e… of place and time. We talked of ou…