9780217250917

Poems

Format: Paperback

ISBN13: 9780217250917

Paperback|9780217250917


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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LOVE IS WINGED Love is winged for two, In the worst he weathers, When their hearts are tied; But if they divide, O too true Cracks a globe, and feathers, feathers, Feathers all the ground bestrew. I was breast of morning sea, Rosy plume on forest dun, I the laugh in rainy fleeces, While with me She made one. Now must we pick up our pieces, For that then so winged were we. is Love Divine Ask, is Love divine, Voices all are, ay. Question for the sign, There's a common sigh. Would we through our years, Love forego, Quit of scars and tears ? Ah, but no, no, no JOY IS FLEET Joy is fleet, Sorrow slow. Love so sweet, Sorrow will sow. Love, that has flown Ere day's decline, Love to have known, Sorrow, be mine THE LESSON OF GRIEF Not ere the bitter herb we taste, Which ages thought of happy times, To plant us in a weeping waste, Rings with our fellows this one heart Accordant chimes. When I had shed my glad year's leaf, I did believe I stood alone, Till that great company of Grief Taught me to know this craving heart For not my own. THE WOODS OF WESTERMAIN Enter these enchanted woods, You who dare. Nothing harms beneath the leaves More than waves a swimmer cleaves. Toss your heart up with the lark, Foot at peace with mouse and worm, Fair you fare. Only at a dread of dark Quaver, and they quit their form: Thousand eyeballs under hoods Have you by the hair. Enter these enchanted woods, You who dare. Here the snake across your path Stretches in his golden bath: Mossy-footed squirrels leap Soft as winnowing plumes of Sleep: Yaffles on a chuckle skim Low to laugh from branches dim: Up the pine, where sits the star, Battles deep the moth-winged jar. Each has business of his own; But should you distrust a tone, ...

ISBN-13

9780217250917

ISBN-10

0217250912

Weight

1.02 Pounds

Dimensions

9.00 x 6.00 x 0.70 In

List Price

$19.99

Format

Paperback

Pages

314 pages

Publisher

Published On

2009-08-01



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