Slim adolescence that a nymph has
Peleus on Thetis stares.
Her limbs are delicate as an eyeli
Love has blinded him with tears;
But Thetis’ belly listens.

I whispered, “I am too young,”
And then, “I am old enough”;
Wherefore I threw a penny
To find out if I might love.
“Go and love, go and love, young m

That crazed girl improvising her m
Her poetry, dancing upon the shore
Her soul in division from itself
Climbing, falling She knew not wh
Hiding amid the cargo of a steamsh

Under the Great Comedian’s tomb t
A bundle of tempestuous cloud is b
About the sky; where that is clear
Brightness remains; a brighter sta
What shudders run through all that

I’LL say and maybe dream I have
Seeing that time has frozen up the
The wick of youth being burned and
From beauty that is cast out of a
In bronze, or that in dazzling mar

BLESSED be this place,
More blessed still this tower;
A bloody, arrogant power
Rose out of the race
Uttering, mastering it,

We sat under an old thorn-tree
And talked away the night,
Told all that had been said or don
Since first we saw the light,
And when we talked of growing up

O but there is wisdom
In what the sages said;
But stretch that body for a while
And lay down that head
Till I have told the sages

A STORM BEATEN old watch-tow
A blind hermit rings the hour.
All-destroying sword-blade still
Carried by the wandering fool.
Gold-sewn silk on the sword-blade,

I dreamed as in my bed I lay,
All night’s fathomless wisdom come
That I had shorn my locks away
And laid them on Love’s lettered
But something bore them out of sig