The claim that has the canker on t… Is mine on you, man’s claim on Pa… Hopelessly lost that ceaselessly h… And all unmerited God still besto… The claim on the invisible wind th…

These words that may not reach you… Are wrung from mine in bitter pain… You, reading, but despise their ar… That is not art but blood—in vain The blood is ebbing from my heart.

My lady has the grace of Death Whose charity is quick to save, Her heart is broad as heaven’s bre… Deep as the grave. She found me fainting by the way

The stars sang in God’s garden; The stars are the birds of God; The night-time is God’s harvest, Its fruits are the words of God. God ploughed His fields at mornin…

Gaunt windy moons bedraggled in th… Have drifted by and withered in th… The once-proud Thunder-Terror, fa… Noses for truffles with unwhetted… A sickening scent of civet and of…

As blazes forth through clouds the… So shines your soul, and I must v… Lest it be stricken to eternal nig… By too much seeing ere my song be… And I must sing your body’s cloud…

O Bright! thy stateliness and gra… Thy bearing and thy dignity Bring intuition of the place That still is native unto thee. Solely thy native airs delight

The worm is clad in plated mail And rides upon the envious Earth His power prevails and shall preva… When Death gleans in the fields o… He sips the purple wine of kings

I loose the secrets of my soul And mint my heart to heavy words Lest you should need to ask a dole Of singing from the winds and bird… You will not heed nor bear my soul…

Crowns and imperial purple, throne… Onyx and sard and blazing diadems, Lazuli and hyacinth and powerful g… Undreamt of even in Babylon of ol… May for a price be given, bought a…

Beside the golden gate there grows… Whose heavy fruit gives entrance t… Of Wonder, and the leaves thereof… Of desolation—nights of agony The buds and blossom for the fruit…

White waves on the water, Gold leaves on the tree, As Mananan’s daughter Arose from the sea. The bud and the blossom,

I saw the Sun at midnight, rising… Deep-hued yet glowing, heavy with… Of blood-compassion, and I saw It… Swiftly in size and growing till… Over the stars; the heavens bowed…

The drunken stars stagger across t… The moon wavers and sways like a w… Beneath my feet the earth like dri… Lapses and slides, wallows and sho… Immovable things start suddenly fl…

To-day when I beheld you all alon… And might have stayed to speak, th… Leapt up within my heart—then quic… New strength, the fruit of sorrow… Sank in my stormy bosom like a sto…