The Drunken Boat
As I was going down impassive Rivers,I no longer felt myself guided by haulers:Yelping redskins...
Category: Poetry
The Dialogue of Two Snails
White Snail.- (Silence.) (A young lady with a lace parasol comes along counting her steps. Upon...
Descending Figure
PORTRAIT A child draws the outline of a body.She draws what she can, but it is white all...
The Second Coming
Turning and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the...
Fire and Ice
Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with...
Stay Home
I will wait here in the fieldsto see how well the rainbrings on the grass.In the labor of the...
Ulysses
It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match’d...
Desiderata
Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far...
The Mower
The mower stalled, twice; kneeling, I found A hedgehog jammed up against the blades, Killed. It...
Dust of Snow
The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change...
I, Too
I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company...
I Sing The Body Electric
1 I sing the body electric, The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them, They will...
