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  At my kitchen…door。



For the sake of dim things

  That were once so plain

I will set a barrel

  Out to catch the rain;

I will hang an iron pot

  On an iron crane。



Many things be dead and gone

  That were brave and gay;

For the sake of these things

  I will learn to say;

〃An it please you; gentle sirs;〃

  〃Alack!〃 and 〃Well…a…day!〃







THE POET AND HIS BOOK



Down; you mongrel; Death!

  Back into your kennel!

I have stolen breath

  In a stalk of fennel!

You shall scratch and you shall whine

  Many a night; and you shall worry

  Many a bone; before you bury

One sweet bone of mine!



When shall I be dead?

  When my flesh is withered;

And above my head

  Yellow pollen gathered

All the empty afternoon?

  When sweet lovers pause and wonder

  Who am I that lie thereunder;

Hidden from the moon?



This my personal death?

  That lungs be failing

To inhale the breath

  Others are exhaling?

This my subtle spirit's end?

  Ah; when the thawed winter splashes

  Over these chance dust and ashes;

Weep not me; my friend!



Me; by no means dead

  In that hour; but surely

When this book; unread;

  Rots to earth obscurely;

And no more to any breast;

  Close against the clamorous swelling

  Of the thing there is no telling;

Are these pages pressed!



When this book is mould;

  And a book of many

Waiting to be sold

  For a casual penny;

In a little open case;

  In a street unclean and cluttered;

  Where a heavy mud is spattered

From the passing drays;



Stranger; pause and look;

  From the dust of ages

Lift this little book;

  Turn the tattered pages;

Read me; do not let me die!

  Search the fading letters; finding

  Steadfast in the broken binding

All that once was I!



When these veins are weeds;

  When these hollowed sockets

Watch the rooty seeds

  Bursting down like rockets;

And surmise the spring again;

  Or; remote in that black cupboard;

  Watch the pink worms writhing upward

At the smell of rain;



Boys and girls that lie

  Whispering in the hedges;

Do not let me die;

  Mix me with your pledges;

Boys and girls that slowly walk

  In the woods; and weep; and quarrel;

  Staring past the pink wild laurel;

Mix me with your talk;



Do not let me die!

  Farmers at your raking;

When the sun is high;

  While the hay is making;

When; along the stubble strewn;

  Withering on their stalks uneaten;

  Strawberries turn dark and sweeten

In the lapse of noon;



Shepherds on the hills;

  In the pastures; drowsing

To the tinkling bells

  Of the brown sheep browsing;

Sailors crying through the storm;

  Scholars at your study; hunters

  Lost amid the whirling winter's

Whiteness uniform;



Men that long for sleep;

  Men that wake and revel;

If an old song leap

  To your senses' level

At such moments; may it be

  Sometimes; though a moment only;

  Some forgotten; quaint and homely

Vehicle of me!



Women at your toil;

  Women at your leisure

Till the kettle boil;

  Snatch of me your pleasure;

Where the broom…straw marks the leaf;

  Women quiet with your weeping

  Lest you wake a workman sleeping;

Mix me with your grief!



Boys and girls that steal

  From the shocking laughter

Of the old; to kneel

  By a dripping rafter

Under the discolored eaves;

  Out of trunks with hingeless covers

  Lifting tales of saints and lovers;

Travelers; goblins; thieves;



Suns that shine by night;

  Mountains made from valleys;

Bear me to the light;

  Flat upon your bellies

By the webby window lie;

  Where the little flies are crawling;

  Read me; margin me with scrawling;

Do not let me die!



Sexton; ply your trade!

  In a shower of gravel

Stamp upon your spade!

  Many a rose shall ravel;

Many a metal wreath shall rust

  In the rain; and I go singing

  Through the lots where you are flinging

Yellow clay on dust!







ALMS



My heart is what it was before;

  A house where people come and go;

But it is winter with your love;

  The sashes are beset with snow。



I light the lamp and lay the cloth;

  I blow the coals to blaze again;

But it is winter with your love;

  The frost is thick upon the pane。



I know a winter when it comes:

  The leaves are listless on the boughs;

I watched your love a little while;

  And brought my plants into the house。



I water them and turn them south;

  I snap the dead brown from the stem;

But it is winter with your love;

  I only tend and water them。



There was a time I stood and watched

  The small; ill…natured sparrows' fray;

I loved the beggar that I fed;

  I cared for what he had to say;



I stood and watched him out of sight;

  Today I reach around the door

And set a bowl upon the step;

  My heart is what it was before;



But it is winter with your love;

  I scatter crumbs upon the sill;

And close the window;and the birds

  May take or leave them; as they will。







INLAND



People that build their houses inland;

  People that buy a plot of ground

Shaped like a house; and build a house there;

  Far from the sea…board; far from the sound



Of water sucking the hollow ledges;

  Tons of water striking the shore;

What do they long for; as I long for

  One salt smell of the sea once more?



People the waves have not awakened;

  Spanking the boats at the harbor's head;

What do they long for; as I long for;

  Starting up in my inland bed;



Beating the narrow walls; and finding

  Neither a window nor a door;

Screaming to God for death by drowning;

  One salt taste of the sea once more?







TO A POET THAT DIED YOUNG



Minstrel; what have you to do

With this man that; after you;

Sharing not your happy fate;

Sat as England's Laureate?

Vainly; in these iron days;

Strives the poet in your praise;

Minstrel; by whose singing side

Beauty walked; until you died。



Still; though none should hark again;

Drones the blue…fly in the pane;

Thickly crusts the blackest moss;

Blows the rose its musk across;

Floats the boat that is forgot

None the less to Camelot。



Many a bard's untimely death

Lends unto his verses breath;

Here's a song was never sung:

Growing old is dying young。

Minstrel; what is this to you:

That a man you never knew;

When your grave was far and green;

Sat and gossipped with a queen?



Thalia knows how rare a thing

Is it; to grow old and sing;

When a brown and tepid tide

Closes in on every side。

Who shall say if Shelley's gold

Had withstood it to grow old?







WRAITH



〃Thin Rain; whom are you haunting;

  That you haunt my door?〃

Surely it is not I she's wanting;

  Someone living here before

〃Nobody's in the house but me:

You may come in if you like and see。〃



Thin as thread; with exquisite fingers;

  Have you seen her; any of you?

Grey shawl; and leaning on the wind;

  And the garden showing through?



Glimmering eyes;and silent; mostly;

  Sort of a whisper; sort of a purr;

Asking something; asking it over;

  If you get a sound from her。



Ever see her; any of you?

  Strangest thing I've ever known;

Every night since I moved in;

  And I came to be alone。



〃Thin Rain; hush with your knocking!

  You may not come in!

This is I that you hear rocking;

  Nobody's with me; nor has been!〃



Curious; how she tried the window;

  Odd; the way she tries the door;

Wonder just what sort of people

  Could have had this house before 。 。 。







EBB



I know what my heart is like

  Since your love died:

It is like a hollow ledge

Holding a little pool

  Left there by the tide;

  A little tepid pool;

Drying inward from the edge。







ELAINE



OH; come again to Astolat!

  I will not ask you to be kind。

And you may go w

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