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I linger on the flathouse roof, the moonlight is divine.
But my heart is all aflutter like the washing on the line.
The Janitor's Boy And Other Poems (1924)
The sun shall shine in ages yet to be,
The musing moon illumine pastures dim,
And afterwards a new nativity
For all who slept the dreamless interim.
The Janitor's Boy And Other Poems (1924)
When you return, the youngest of the seers,
Released from fetters of ancestral pose,
There will be beauty waiting down the years —
Revisions of the ruby and the rose.
The Janitor's Boy And Other Poems (1924)
Oh I'm in love with the janitor's boy,
And the janitor's boy loves me;
He's going to hunt for a desert isle
In our geography.
The Janitor's Boy And Other Poems (1924)
He'll carry me off, I know that he will,
For his hair is exceedingly red;
And the only thing that occurs to me
Is to dutifully shiver in bed.
The Janitor's Boy And Other Poems (1924)
The gods released a vision on a world forespent and dull;
They sent it as a challenge by the sea hawk and the gull. It roused the Norman eagerness, the Albion cliffs turned red:
"You fly the wings of logic — can you fly the wings of lead?
Venus Invisible and Other Poems (1928)
Treating the sword blade the same as the staff,
Turning the chariot wheel into chaff.
Toppling a pillar and nudging a wall,
Building a sand pile to counter each fall.
Yielding to nothing — not even the rose,
The dust has its reasons wherever it goes.
Venus Invisible and Other Poems (1928)
Oh, we have had great lovers that we followed to the pyre;
Our boasts out-do the Sabine girls—the Mosque of St. Sophia.
And we are very sure of ours, for when a city falls,
They seize us and they love us and they hurl us from the walls.
Venus Invisible and Other Poems (1928)
Cloud-made mountains towered,
Beckoning to me;
Visionary triremes
Talked about the sea...
The Janitor's Boy And Other Poems (1924)
Said the tiger to the lily,
Said the viper to the rose,
Let us marry so our children
May attain the double pose. With a feline half a flower —
With the attar in the asp
We could institute a slaughter
That would make a planet gasp.
Venus Invisible and Other Poems (1928)