Love Poems – Page 99
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Song of the Souls Set Free
Wrap the earth in cloudy weather / For a shroud. / We have slipped the earthly tether, … -
A New England Church
The white church on the hill / Looks over the little bay— / A beautiful thing on the hill … -
Rue Bonaparte
You that but seek your modest rolls and coffee, / When you have passed the bar, and have saluted / Its watchful madam, then pray enter softly … -
The View at Gunderson's
Sitting in his rocker waiting for your tea, / Gazing from his window, this is what you see: / A cat that snaps at flies; a track leading down … -
The Falconer of God
I flung my soul to the air like a falcon flying. / I said, “Wait on, wait on, while I ride below! / I shall start a heron soon … -
The Horse Thief
There he moved, cropping the grass at the purple canyon’s lip. / His mane was mixed with the moonlight that silvered his snow-white side, / For the moon sailed out of a cloud with the wake of a spectral ship. … -
The Rear Porches of an Apartment-Building
A sky that has never known sun, moon or stars, / A sky that is like a dead, kind face, / Would have the color of your eyes, … -
The Interne
Oh, the agony of having too much power! / In my passive palm are hundreds of lives. / Strange alchemy!—they drain my blood: … -
The Old Jew
No fawn-tinged hospital pajamas could cheat him of his austerity, / Which tamed even the doctors with its pure fire. / They examined him; made him bow to them: … -
The Miner
Those on the top say they know you, Earth—they are liars. / You are my father, and the silence I work in is my mother. / Only the son knows his father. …
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