When I fall asleep, and even duri… I hear, quite distinctly, voices s… Whole phrases, commonplace and tri… Having no relation to my affairs. Dear Mother, is any time left to…

A poem moves forward, Like the passages and percussions… A pattern of recurrence, a hammer… a slow less and less heard low thunder under all passengers

Father: On these occasions, the feelings s… Spontaneous as rain, and they comp… Explicitness, embarrassed eyes—— Son:

Silence is a great blue bell Swinging and ringing, tinkling and… In measure’s pleasure, and in the… of the soaring of the immense inte… glinting against

Remember midsummer: the fragrance… roses And of phlox. And upon a honeysuc… Three snails hanging with infinite… —Clinging like tendril, flake and…

If nature is life, nature is death… It is winter as it is spring: Confusion is variety, variety And confusion in everything Make experience the true conclusio…

The horns in the harbor booming, v… Fog, forgotten, yesterday, conclus… Nostalgic, noising dim sorrow, cal… To sleep is it? I think so, and c… Not the door opened and the stair…

Yeats died Saturday in France. Freedom from his animal Has come at last in alien Nice, His heart beat separate from his w… He knows at last the old abyss

I Aria “—Kiss me there where pride is gli… Kiss me where I am ripened and ro… Kiss me wherever, however, I am s… (Let the bell be rung as long as…

(After Valery) This hushed surface where the dove… Amid the pines vibrates, amid the… Here the noon’s justice unites all… The sea aspires forever to begin a…

Tired and unhappy, you think of ho… Soft-carpeted and warm in the Dec… While snow’s white pieces fall pas… And the orange firelight leaps. A young girl sings

“Poet and veteran of childhood, lo… See in me the obscene, for you hav… For you have hatred, you, you must… Deliver judgement, Delmore Schwar… Well-known wishes have been to war…

In the slight ripple, the fishes d… Like fingers, centrifugal, like wi… Wanton. And pleasures rise as the eyes fall Through the lucid water. The smal…

Is the spider a monster in miniatu… His web is a cruel stair, to be su… Designed artfully, cunningly place… A delicate trap, carefully spun To bind the fly (innocent or unawa…

The children of the Czar Played with a bouncing ball In the May morning, in the Czar’s… Tossing it back and forth. It fell among the flowerbeds