Love Poems – Page 129
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Songs of the Coast-Dwellers - The Chief's Prayer after the Salmon Catch
O kia-kunÆ, praise! / Thou hast opened thy hand among the stars, / And sprinkled the sea with food; … -
Songs of the Coast-Dwellers - Song of Whip-Plaiting
In the dawn I gathered cedar-boughs / For the plaiting of thy whip. / They were wet with sweet drops; … -
Songs of the Coast-Dwellers - No Answer is Given
I am Ah-woa-te, the Hunter. / I met a maiden in the shadow of the rocks; / Her eyes were strange and clear, … -
What Tomas An Buile said in a Pub
I saw God. Do you doubt it? / Do you dare to doubt it? / I saw the Almighty Man. His hand … -
Bessie Bobtail
As down the street she wambled slow, / She had not got a place to go: / She had not got a place to fall … -
Hate
My enemy came high, / And I / Stared fiercely in his face. … -
The Waste Places
I / as a naked man I go / Through the desert sore afraid, … -
Hawks
And as we walked the grass was faintly stirred; / We did not speak—there was no need to speak. / Above our heads there flew a little bird, … -
Dark Wings
Sing while you may, O bird upon the tree! / Although on high, wide-winged above the day, / Chill evening broadens to immensity, … -
A Legend of the Dove
soft from the linden’s bough, / Unmoved against the tranquil afternoon, / Eve’s dove laments her now: …
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