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This much is true; six years ago

An angel living near the moon

Walked thru the sky and sang a tune

Plucking stars to make his crown

And suddenly two stars fell down;

Two falling arrows made of light。

Six years ago this very night









RIVERS TO THE SEA



I saw them fall and wondered why

The angel dropped them from the sky

But when I saw your eyes I knew

The angel sent the stars to you。









TO ROSE



ROSE; when I remember you;

Little lady; scarcely two;

I am suddenly aware

Of the angels in the air。

All your softly gracious ways

Make an island in my days

Where my thoughts fly back to be

Sheltered from too strong a sea。

All your luminous delight

Shines before me in the night

When I grope for sleep and find

Only shadows in my mind。



Rose; when I remember you;

White and glowing; pink and new;

With so swift a sense of fun

Altho' life has just begun;









RIVERS TO THE SEA



With so sure a pride of place

In your very infant face;

I should like to make a prayer

To the angels in the air:

〃If an angel ever brings

Me a baby in her wings;

Please be certain that it grows

Very; very much like Rose。〃









THE FOUNTAIN



On in the deep blue night

   The fountain sang alone;

It sang to the drowsy heart

   Of the satyr carved in stone。



The fountain sang and sang

   But the satyr never stirred

Only the great white moon

   In the empty heaven heard。



The fountain sang and sang

   And on the marble rim

The milk…white peacocks slept;

   Their dreams were strange and dim。



Bright dew was on the grass;

   And on the ilex dew;

The dreamy milk…white birds

   Were all a…glisten too。









RIVERS TO THE SEA

The fountain sang and sang

   The things one cannot tell;

The dreaming peacocks stirred

   And the gleaming dew…drops fell。









THE ROSE



BENEATH my chamber window

Pierrot was singing; singing;

   I heard his lute the whole night thru

      Until the east was red。

Alas; alas; Pierrot;

I had no rose for flinging

   Save one that drank my tears for dew

      Before its leaves were dead。



I found it in the darkness;

I kissed it once and threw it;

   The petals scattered over him;

      His song was turned to joy;

And he will never know

Alas; the one who knew it!

   The rose was plucked when dusk was dim

      Beside a laughing boy。









DREAMS



I GAVE my life to another lover;

   I gave my love; and all; and all

But over a dream the past will hover;

   Out of a dream the past will call。



I tear myself from sleep with a shiver

   But on my breast a kiss is hot;

And by my bed the ghostly giver

   Is waiting tho' I see him not。









〃I AM NOT YOURS 〃



I AM not yours; not lost in you;

   Not lost; altho' I long to be

Lost as a candle lit at noon;

   Lost as a snow…flake in the sea。



You love me; and I find you still

   A spirit beautiful and bright;

Yet I am I; who long to be

   Lost as a light is lost in light。



Oh plunge me deep in loveput out

   My senses; leave me deaf and blind;

Swept by the tempest of your love;

   A taper in a rushing wind。









PIERROT'S SONG



(For a picture by Dugald Walker)



LADY; light in the east hangs low;

   Draw your veils of dream apart;

Under the casement stands Pierrot

   Making a song to ease his heart。

(Yet do not break the song too soon

   I love to sing in the paling moon。)



The petals are falling; heavy with dew;

   The stars have fainted out of the sky;

Come to me; come; or else I too;

   Faint with the weight of love will die。

(She comesalas; I hoped to make

   Another stanza for her sake!)









NIGHT IN ARIZONA



THE moon is a charring ember

   Dying into the dark;



Off in the crouching mountains

      Coyotes bark。



The stars are heavy in heaven;

   Too great for the sky to hold

What if they fell and shattered

      The earth with gold?



No lights are over the mesa;

   The wind is hard and wild;

I stand at the darkened window

      And cry like a child。









DUSK IN WAR TIME



A HALF…HOUR more and you will lean

   To gather me close in the old sweet way

But oh; to the woman over the sea

   Who will come at the close of day?



A half…hour more and I will hear

   The key in the latch and the strong quick tread

But oh; the woman over the sea

   Waiting at dusk for one who is dead!









SPRING IN WAR TIME



I FEEL the Spring far off; far off;

   The faint far scent of bud and leaf

Oh how can Spring take heart to come

   To a world in grief;

      Deep grief?



The sun turns north; the days grow long;

   Later the evening star grows bright

How can the daylight linger on

   For men to fight;

      Still fight?



The grass is waking in the ground;

   Soon it will rise and blow in waves

How can it have the heart to sway

   Over the graves;

      New graves?









RIVERS TO THE SEA



Under the boughs where lovers walked

   The apple…blooms will shed their breath

But what of all the lovers now

   Parted by death;

      Gray Death?









WHILE I MAY



WIND and hail and veering rain;

   Driven mist that veils the day;

Soul's distress and body's pain;

   I would bear you while I may。



I would love you if I might;

   For so soon my life will be

Buried in a lasting night;

   Even pain denied to me。









DEBT



WHAT do I owe to you

   Who loved me deep and long?

You never gave my spirit wings

   Or gave my heart a song。



But oh; to him I loved

   Who loved me not at all;

I owe the little open gate



   That led thru heaven's wall。









FROM THE NORTH



THE northern woods are delicately sweet;

   The lake is folded softly by the shore;

   But I am restless for the subway's roar;

The thunder and the hurrying of feet。

I try to sleep; but still my eyelids beat

   Against the image of the tower that bore

   Me high aloft; as if thru heaven's door

I watched the world from God's unshaken seat。

I would go back and breathe with quickened sense

   The tunnel's strong hot breath of powdered steel;

But at the ferries I should leave the tense

      Dark air behind; and I should mount and be

   One among many who are thrilled to feel

      The first keen sea…breath from the open sea。









THE LIGHTS OF NEW YORK



THE lightning spun your garment for the night

   Of silver filaments with fire shot thru;

   A broidery of lamps that lit for you

The steadfast splendor of enduring light。

The moon drifts dimly in the heaven's height;

   Watching with wonder how the earth she knew

   That lay so long wrapped deep in dark and dew;

Should wear upon her breast a star so white。

The festivals of Babylon were dark

   With flaring flambeaux that the wind blew down;

The Saturnalia were a wild boy's lark

   With rain…quenched torches dripping thru the town

But you have found a god and filched from him

A fire that neither wind nor rain can dim。









SEA LONGING



A THOUSAND miles beyond this sun…steeped wall

   Somewhere the waves creep cool along the sand;

   The ebbing tide forsakes the listless land

With the old murmur; long and musical;

The windy waves mount up and curve and fall;

   And round the rocks the foam blows up like snow;

   Tho' I am inland far; I hear and know;

For I was born the sea's eternal thrall。

I would that I were there and over me

   The cold insistence of the tide would roll;

   Quenching this burning thing men call the soul;

Then with the ebbing I should drift and be

   Less than the smallest shell along the shoal;

Less than the sea…gulls calling to the sea。









THE RIVER



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