Poetry, Volume 20Harriet Monroe Modern Poetry Association, 1922 - American poetry |
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... face , and there Shone that agony that those Loved of God must bear . Oh , we heard the many things Silence has to say- He and I together As alone we lay Waiting for the slow sweet Miracle of day . When the bugle's silver Spiralled up ...
... face , and there Shone that agony that those Loved of God must bear . Oh , we heard the many things Silence has to say- He and I together As alone we lay Waiting for the slow sweet Miracle of day . When the bugle's silver Spiralled up ...
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... face tangibly , Like wind on the lake . Then , in the hedge Where japonicas grew , A little breeze was born , Boyish and new . I saw it find you And rustle your name ; Lift you , and carry you ] Like a slim flame Out where the trees ...
... face tangibly , Like wind on the lake . Then , in the hedge Where japonicas grew , A little breeze was born , Boyish and new . I saw it find you And rustle your name ; Lift you , and carry you ] Like a slim flame Out where the trees ...
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... face upon As Venus does ; the sun Until the trees , the fields , the marshes , All turn dun , dull Quaker brown , And a mild winter settles down , And mosses are more gray . All human souls are glasses which reflect The aspects of the ...
... face upon As Venus does ; the sun Until the trees , the fields , the marshes , All turn dun , dull Quaker brown , And a mild winter settles down , And mosses are more gray . All human souls are glasses which reflect The aspects of the ...
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... faces show a tired dismay , Looking on burning suns , and scarcely blithe in May . Spring's coming is too fierce with life , And summer is too long ; The stunted pine trees struggle with the sand Till the [ 7 ] Hervey Allen.
... faces show a tired dismay , Looking on burning suns , and scarcely blithe in May . Spring's coming is too fierce with life , And summer is too long ; The stunted pine trees struggle with the sand Till the [ 7 ] Hervey Allen.
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... faces I know that they have lived long in these places . The tides , the hooting owls , the daylight moons , The leprous lights and shadows of the mosses , The funereal woodlands of these coasts , Draped like a hearse , And memories of ...
... faces I know that they have lived long in these places . The tides , the hooting owls , the daylight moons , The leprous lights and shadows of the mosses , The funereal woodlands of these coasts , Draped like a hearse , And memories of ...
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Page 208 - The loathsome mask has fallen, the man remains Sceptreless, free, uncircumscribed, but man Equal, unclassed, tribeless, and nationless, Exempt from awe, worship, degree, the king Over himself; just, gentle, wise: but man Passionless; no, yet free from guilt or pain, Which were, for his will made or suffered them, Nor yet exempt, tho...
Page 208 - ... Exempt from awe, worship, degree, the king Over himself; just, gentle, wise: but man Passionless? — no, yet free from guilt or pain. Which were, for his will made or suffered them, Nor yet exempt, though ruling them like slaves, From chance, and death, and mutability, The clogs of that which else might oversoar The loftiest star of unascended heaven, Pinnacled dim in the intense inane.
Page 212 - I would fain Be what it is my destiny to be, The saviour and the strength of suffering man, Or sink into the original gulf of things: There is no agony, and no solace left ; Earth can console. Heaven can torment no more.
Page 217 - To Waken An Old Lady Old age is a flight of small cheeping birds skimming bare trees above a snow glaze. Gaining and failing they are buffeted by a dark wind — But what? On harsh weedstalks the flock has rested, the snow is covered with broken seedhusks and the wind tempered by a shrill piping of plenty.
Page 208 - Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number, Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you Ye are many - they are few.
Page 210 - Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present; the words which express what they understand not; the trumpets which sing to battle, and feel not what they inspire; the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
Page 218 - I lived with my husband. The plumtree is white today with masses of flowers. Masses of flowers load the cherry branches and color some bushes yellow and some red but the grief in my heart is stronger than they for though they were my joy formerly, today I notice them and turned away forgetting.
Page 153 - THE FARMER'S BRIDE Three Summers since I chose a maid, Too young maybe — but more's to do At harvest-time than bide and woo. When us was wed she turned afraid Of love and me and all things human; Like the shut of a winter's day. Her smile went out, and Wasn'ta woman — More like a little frightened fay. One night, in the Fall, she runned away. "Out 'mong the sheep, her be...
Page 153 - As well as most, but like a mouse: Happy enough to chat and play With birds and rabbits and such as they, So long as men-folk keep away. 'Not near, not near!
Page 210 - Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.