28 quotes
When you’re away, I’m restless, lonely,
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
Here’s the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
Poems in Praise of Practically Nothing (1928)
The heart’s dead
Are never buried.
Year In You're Out (1930)
To all the starry host of Heaven they cried,
But had no radio and of course they died.
Year In You're Out (1930)
The countless cousins of the Czar,
Grand Duke or Duchess, every one,
As multitudinous as are
The spheres (who borrow from the sun).
Year In You're Out (1930)
Four of us together dwell—
Two from Heaven and two from Hell;
Four of us under the selfsame sky—
Love and Death and a Dream and I.
Life Sings a Song (1916)
When trouble drives me into rhyme,
Which is two-thirds of all the time,
What peace a thought like this can give—
Great is the age in which we live!
Poems in Praise of Practically Nothing (1928)
To You, oh, Goddess of Efficiency,
Your happy vassals bend the reverent knee,
Save when arthritis, your benighted foe,
Sulks in the bones and sourly mumbles "No!"
Year In You're Out (1930)
Serenades and Songs for a Pent-House Window, no. 3 (p. 68)
Year In You're Out (1930)