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LONG ago I learned how to sleep,In an old apple orchard where the wind swept by counting its money andthrowing it away,In a wind-gaunt orchard where..

THERE is a wolf in me ... fangs pointed for tearing gashes ... a red tongue for rawmeat ... and the hot lapping of blood-I keep this wolf because the..

My head knocks against the stars.My feet are on the hilltops.My finger-tips are in the valleys and shores ofuniversal life.Down in the sounding foam..

Your whitelight flashes the frost to-nightMoon of the purple and silent west.Remember me one of your lovers of dreams.

Your white shouldersI rememberAnd your shrug of laughter.Low laughterShaken slowFrom your white shoulders.

FOR the second time in a year this lady with the white hands is brought to thewest room second floor of a famous sanatorium.Her husband is a cornice..

THERE is a woman on Michigan Boulevard keeps a parrot and goldfish and twowhite mice.She used to keep a houseful of girls in kimonos and three..

NEITHER rose leaves gathered in a jar-respectably in Boston-these-nor drops ofChrist blood for a chalice-decently in Philadelphia or..

GIVE me your anathema.Speak new damnations on my head.The evening mist in the hills is soft.The boulders on the road say communion.The farm dogs look..

FROM the time of the early radishesTo the time of the standing cornSleepy Henry Hackerman hoes.There are laws in the village against weeds.The law..

THE WASHERWOMAN is a member of the Salvation Army.And over the tub of suds rubbing underwear cleanShe sings that Jesus will wash her sins awayAnd the..

In the old wars drum of hoofs and the beat of shod feet.In the new wars hum of motors and the tread of rubber tires.In the wars to come silent wheels..

Today I will let the old boat standWhere the sweep of the harbor tide comes inTo the pulse of a far, deep-steady sway.And I will rest and dream and..

LIPS half-willing in a doorway.Lips half-singing at a window.Eyes half-dreaming in the walls.Feet half-dancing in a kitchen.Even the clocks half-yawn..

ELSIE FLIMMERWON, you got a job now with a jazz outfit in vaudeville.The houses go wild when you finish the act shimmying a fast shimmy to TheLivery..

Your eyes and the valley are memories.Your eyes fire and the valley a bowl.It was here a moonrise crept over the timberline.It was here we turned the..

The strong men keep coming on.They go down shot, hanged, sick, broken.They live on, fighting, singing, lucky as plungers.The strong men ... they keep..

I too have a garret of old playthings.I have tin soldiers with broken arms upstairs.I have a wagon and the wheels gone upstairs.I have guns and a..

Wonder as of old thingsFresh and fair come backHangs over pasture and road.Lush in the lowland grasses riseAnd upland beckons to upland.The great..

Under the harvest moon,When the soft silverDrips shimmeringOver the garden nights,Death, the gray mocker,Comes and whispers to youAs a beautiful..

I am a copper wire slung in the air,Slim against the sun I make not even a clear line of shadow.Night and day I keep singing--humming and..

While the hum and the hurryOf passing footfallsBeat in my ear like the restless surfOf a wind-blown sea,A soul came to meOut of the look on a..

II am the undertowWashing tides of powerBattering the pillarsUnder your things of high law.III am a sleeplessSlowfaring eater,Maker of rust and rotIn..

THE LAW says you and I belong to each other, George.The law says you are mine and I am yours, George.And there are a million miles of white..

Faces of two eternities keep looking at me.One is Omar Khayam and the red stuffwherein men forget yesterday and to-morrowand remember only the voices..