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my father moved through dooms of love
my father moved through dooms of love
my father moved through dooms of love
through sames of am through haves of give,
singing each morning out o…
maggie and milly and molly and may
maggie and milly and molly and may
maggie and milly and molly and may
went down to the beach (to play one day)
and maggie discove…
in time of daffodils(who know
in time of daffodils(who know
in time of daffodils(who know
the goal of living is to grow)
forgetting why,remember how
in…
it may not always be so
it may not always be so
it may not always be so; and i say
that if your lips, which i have loved, should touch
another's, and your dear strong fi…
in just
in just
in Justspring
when the world is mudluscious
the little
lame balloonman
whistles far and wee
…
If I have made, my lady, intricate
If I have made, my lady, intricate
If I have made, my lady, intricate
imperfect various things chiefly which wrong
your eyes (frailer than most d…
i sing of Olaf glad and big
i sing of Olaf glad and big
i sing of Olaf glad and big
whose warmest heart recoiled at war:
a conscientious object-or
hi…
if everything happens that can't be done
if everything happens that can't be done
if everything happens that can't be done
(and anything's righter
than books
could plan)
…
i have found what you are like
i have found what you are like
i have found what you are like
the rain
(Who feathers frightened fields
with the superior dust-of-…
Fame Speaks
Fame Speaks
Stand forth,John Keats! On earth thou knew'st me not;
Steadfast through all the storms of passion,thou,
True to thy muse,and virgin t…
all in green
all in green
All in green went my love riding
on a great horse of gold
into the silver dawn.
Four lean hounds crouched lo…
Ballad of the Scholar's Lament
Ballad of the Scholar's Lament
When I have struggled through three hundred years
of Roman history, and hastened o'er
Some French play-(though I h…
Wraith
Wraith
"Thin Rain, whom are you haunting,
That you haunt my door?"
—Surely it is not I she's wanting;
Someone living here b…
(a... (a leaf falls on loneliness)
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Wild Swans
Wild Swans
I looked in my heart while the wild swans went over.
And what did I see I had not seen before?
Only a question less or a question more…
When We Are Old And These Rejoicing Veins
When We Are Old And These Rejoicing Veins
When we are old and these rejoicing veins
Are frosty channels to a muted stream,
And out of all our bur…
We Talk of Taxes...
We Talk of Taxes...
We talk of taxes, and I call you friend;
Well, such you are, -- but well enough we know
How thick about us root, how rankly g…
When I Too Long Have Looked Upon Your Face
When I Too Long Have Looked Upon Your Face
When I too long have looked upon your face,
Wherein for me a brightness unobscured
Save by the mists o…
Two Sonnets In Memory
Two Sonnets In Memory
(Nicola Sacco -- Bartolomeo Vanzetti)
Executed August 23, 1927
I
As men have loved …
To Those Without Pity
To Those Without Pity
Cruel of heart, lay down my song,
Your reading eyes have done me wrong,
Not for you was the pen bitten,
And the min…
To Kathleen
To Kathleen
Still must the poet as of old,
In barren attic bleak and cold,
Starve, freeze, and fashion verses to
Such things as flowers a…
To A Poet That Died Young
To A Poet That Died Young
Minstrel, what have you to do
With this man that, after you,
Sharing not your happy fate,
Sat as England's Laur…
The Wood Road
The Wood Road
If I were to walk this way
Hand in hand with Grief,
I should mark that maple-spray
Coming into leaf.
I should note …
Three Songs Of Shattering
Three Songs Of Shattering
I
The first rose on my rose-tree
Budded, bloomed, and shattered,
During sad days when to me
Not…