10 quotes
One luminary clock against the sky
Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
I have been one acquainted with the night.
West-Running Brook (1928)
The world has room to make a bear feel free;
The universe seems cramped to you and me.
West-Running Brook (1928)
Dust always blowing about the town,
Except when sea-fog laid it down,
And I was one of the children told
Some of the blowing dust was gold.
West-Running Brook (1928)
Such was life in the Golden Gate:
Gold dusted all we drank and ate,
And I was one of the children told,
'We all must eat our peck of gold.
West-Running Brook (1928)
Our life runs down in sending up the clock.
The brook runs down in sending up our life.
The sun runs down in sending up the brook.
And there is something sending up the sun.
West-Running Brook (1928)
All the dust the wind blew high
Appeared like god in the sunset sky,
But I was one of the children told
Some of the dust was really gold.
West-Running Brook (1928)
Tree at my window, window tree,
My sash is lowered when night comes on;
But let there never be curtain drawn
Between you and me.
West-Running Brook (1928)
If, as they say, some dust thrown in my eyes
Will keep my talk from getting overwise,
I'm not the one for putting off the proof.
Let it be overwhelming, off a roof
And round a corner, blizzard snow for dust,
And blind me to a standstill if it must.
West-Running Brook (1928)
That day she put our heads together,
Fate had her imagination about her,
Your head so much concerned with outer,
Mine with inner, weather.
West-Running Brook (1928)
It must be the brook
Can trust itself to go by contraries
The way I can with you — and you with me —
Because we're — we're — I don't know
What we are.
West-Running Brook (1928)