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Quotes from The Janitor's Boy And Other Poems — Nathalia Crane

1913–1998 United States

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A precious place is Paradise and none may know its worth,
But Eden ever longeth for the knicknacks of the earth.

The Janitor's Boy And Other Poems (1924)

Their language runs to circles like the language of the eyes,
Emphasised by strange dilations with little panting sighs.

The Janitor's Boy And Other Poems (1924)

Every gaudy color
Is a bit of truth.

The Janitor's Boy And Other Poems (1924)

They lower pails from heaven's walls to catch the milk-maids mirth.

The Janitor's Boy And Other Poems (1924)

The starry brocade of the summer night
Is linked to us as part of our estate;
And every bee that wings its sidelong flight
Assurance of a sweeter, fairer fate.

The Janitor's Boy And Other Poems (1924)

In the darkness, who would answer for the color of a rose,
Or the vestments of the May moth and the pilgrimage it goes?

The Janitor's Boy And Other Poems (1924)

Wore it in a churchyard,
All arrayed with care;
And a painted rainbow
Shone above her there.

The Janitor's Boy And Other Poems (1924)

The Roman rolls from left to right from Maytime unto May;
But the gods shake up their symbols in an absent-minded way.

The Janitor's Boy And Other Poems (1924)

Once a pallid Vestal
Doubted truth in blue;
Listed red in ruin,
Harried every hue; Barricaded vision,
Garbed herself in sighs;
Ridiculed the birthmarks
Of the butterflies.

The Janitor's Boy And Other Poems (1924)

The very serpents bite their tails; the bees forget to sting,
For a language so celestial setteth up a wondering. And the touch of absent mindedness is more than any line,
Since direction counts for nothing when the gods set up a sign.

The Janitor's Boy And Other Poems (1924)

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)

Cloud-made mountains towered,
Beckoning to me;
Visionary triremes
Talked about the sea...

The Janitor's Boy And Other Poems (1924)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Nathalia Crane (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.