#Americans #Modernism #XXCentury
I will teach you my towns… how to perform a funeral… for you have it over a tr… of artists— unless one should scour t…
It is a small plant delicately branched and tapering conically to a point, each branch and the peak a wire for
Oh, black Persian cat! Was not your life already cursed with offspring? We took you for rest to that old Yankee farm, —so lonely
It’s a strange courage you give me ancient star: Shine alone in the sunrise toward which you lend no part!
Pour the wine bridegroom where before you the bride is enthroned her hair loose at her temples a head of ripe wheat is on
I bought a dish mop— having no daughter— for they had twisted fine ribbons of shining copper about white twine
From the Nativity which I have already celebrated the Babe in its Mother’s arms the Wise Men in their stolen splendor
You say love is this, love is that… Poplar tassels, willow tendrils the wind and the rain comb, tinkle and drip, tinkle and drip— branches drifting apart. Hagh!
I lie here thinking of you:—— the stain of love is upon the world! Yellow, yellow, yellow it eats into the leaves,
The pure products of America go crazy— mountain folk from Kentucky or the ribbed north end of Jersey
Ecstatic bird songs pound the hollow vastness of the sky with metallic clinkings— beating color up into it at a far edge,—beating it, beating…
You know there is not much that I desire, a few chrysanthemum… half lying on the grass, yellow and brown and white, the talk of a few people, the trees,
contend in a sea which the land pa… shielding them from the too—heavy… of an ungoverned ocean which when… tortures the biggest hulls, the be… to pit against its beatings, and s…
Why do I write today? The beauty of the terrible faces of our nonentites stirs me to it:
Let the snake wait under his weed and the writing be of words, slow and quick, sharp to strike, quiet to wait,