Love Poems – Page 132
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The Steam Shovel
Beneath my window in a city street / A monster lairs, a creature huge and grim / And only half believed: the strength of him— … -
The Great Man
I cannot always feel his greatness. / Sometimes he walks beside me, step by step, / And paces slowly in the ways— … -
The Bird and the Tree
Blackbird, blackbird in the cage, / There’s something wrong tonight. / Far off the sheriff’s footfall dies, … -
The Son
I heard an old farm-wife, / Selling some barley, / Mingle her life with life … -
Beyond the Stars
Three days I heard them grieve when I lay dead, / (It was so strange to me that they should weep!) / Tall candles burned about me in the dark, … -
Landscapes
The rain was over, and the brilliant air / Made every little blade of grass appear / Vivid and startling—everything was there … -
Feuerzauber
I never knew the earth had so much gold— / The fields run over with it, and this hill / Hoary and old, … -
On the Birth of a Child
Lo—to the battle-ground of life, / Child, you have come, like a conquering about, / Out of a struggle—into strife; … -
Irony
Why are the things that have no death / The ones with neither sight nor breath! / Eternity is thrust upon … -
Scented Leaves from a Chinese Jar - The Acacia Leaves
the aged man, when he beheld winter approaching, counted the leaves as they lapsed from the acacia trees; while his son was talking of the spring.
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