SHE lived in storm and strife,Her soul had such desireFor what proud death may bringThat it could not endureThe common good of life,But lived as ’twere a kingThat packed his…

I HEARD the old, old men say,“Everything alters,And one by one we drop away.”They had hands like claws, and their kneesWere twisted like the old thorn-treesBy the waters.I heard the…

Overcome — O bitter sweetness,Inhabitant of the soft cheek of a girl —The rich man and his affairs,The fat flocks and the fields’ fatness,Mariners, rough harvesters;Overcome Gods upon Parnassus; Overcome…

WE that have done and thought,That have thought and done,Must ramble, and thin outLike milk spilt on a stone.

Earth in beauty dressedAwaits returning spring.All true love must die,Alter at the bestInto some lesser thing.Prove that I lie. Such body lovers have,Such exacting breath,That they touch or sigh.Every touch…

“TIME to put off the world and go somewhereAnd find my health again in the sea air,’Beggar to beggar cried, being frenzy-struck,“And make my soul before my pate is bare.-“And…

HANDS, do what you’re bid:Bring the balloon of the mindThat bellies and drags in the windInto its narrow shed.

THAT crazed girl improvising her music.Her poetry, dancing upon the shore, Her soul in division from itselfClimbing, falling She knew not where,Hiding amid the cargo of a steamship,Her knee-cap broken,…

COME swish around, my pretty punk,And keep me dancing stillThat I may stay a sober manAlthough I drink my fill. Sobriety is a jewelThat I do much adore;And therefore keep…

SWEETHEART, do not love too long:I loved long and long,And grew to be out of fashionLike an old song.All through the years of our youthNeither could have knownTheir own thought…