“I have outlawed the furthest city light/ I have looked down the saddest city lane”
acquainted with the night
“And further still at an unearthly height/ O luminary clock against the sky/ proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right/ I have been one acquainted with the night”
acquainted with the night
“And set the wall between us once again/ we keep the wall between us as we go.”
Mending wall
“To each the boulders that have fallen to each/ and some are loaves and some so nearly balls/ we have to use a spell to make them balance”
mending wall
“‘Good fences make good neighbors'”
mending wall
“before i built a wall i’d ask to know/ what I was walling in or walling out/ and to whom i was like to give offense”
mending wall
“the buzz saw snarled and rattled in the yard”
out, out-
“and the saw snarled and rattles, snarled and rattled,”
out, out-
“Since he was old enough to know, big boy/ Doing a man’s work, though a child at heart-/ He saw all was spoiled”
out, out-
“Little- less- nothing! – and that ended it./ No more to build on there. And they, since they/ Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs”
out, out-
“My little horse must think it queer/ to stop without a farmhouse near”
stopping by woods on a snowy evening
“The woods are lovely, dark, and deep./ But I have promises to keep/ and miles to go before I sleep/ and miles to go before I sleep”
stopping by woods on a snowy evening
“Nature’s first green is gold”
nothing gold can stay
“So eden sank to grief/ so dawn goes down to day/ nothing gold can stay
nothing gold can stay
“Some say the world will end in fire/ some in ice”
fire and ice
“And sorry I could not travel both/ and be one traveler, long I stood”
the road not taken
“And both that morning equally lay/ In leaves no step had trodden black”
the road not taken
“I shall be telling this with a sigh/ Somewhere ages and ages hence:/ two roads diverged in a wood, and I-/ I took the one less traveled by,/ And that has made all the difference”
the road not taken
“Essence of winter sleep is on the night”
after apple picking
“there were ten thousand thousand fruit to touch,/ Cherish in hand, lift down, and not let fall”
after apple picking
“he sang is didn’t he danced his did”
anyone lived in a pretty how town
“children guessed (but only a few and down they forgot as up they grew”
anyone lived in a pretty how town
“summer autumn winter spring/ reaped their sowing and went their came/ sun moon stars rain”
anyone lived in a pretty how town
“No/ Tres) & (pas)”
old age sticks
“&) youth goes/ right on/ gr/ owing old”
old age sticks
“and kisses are a better fate/ that wisdom/ lady i swear by all flowers”
since feeling is first
“for life’s not a paragraph/ And death i think is no parenthesis”
since feeling is first
“Go to the western gate, Luke Havergal/ there where the vines cling crimson on the wall,/ And in the twilight wait for what will come”
Luke Havergal
“The dark will ed the dark, if anything:/ God slays himself with every leaf that flies,/ And hell is more than half of paradise”
Luke Havergal
“Out of a grave I come to tell you this- to tell you this”
Luke Havergal
“Miniver Cheevy, child of scorn”
Miniver Cheevy
“He wept that he was ever born/ And he had his reasons.”
Miniver Cheevy
“Miniver Cheevy, born too late,/ Scratched his head and kept on thinking;/ Miniver coughed, and called it fate,/ And kept on drinking”
Miniver Cheevy
“We died like aunts or pets or foreigners./ (When we left high school nothing else had died/ For us to figure we had died like)”
losses
“It wasn’t different: but if we died/ It was not an accident but a mistake”
losses
“In bombers named for girls, we burned/ The cities we had learned about in school-“
losses
“When we lasted long enough they gave us metals;/ When we died they said,”Our casualties were low.””
losses
“He was a gentleman from sole to crown,/ Clean favored, and imperially slim”
Richard Corey
“But still he fluttered pulses when he said,/ “Good Morning,” and he glittered when he walked.”
Richard Corey
“From my mother’s sleep I fell into the State,/ And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze/ Six miles from earth, loosed from the dream of life/ I woke black flak and the nightmare fighters/ When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose”
the death of the ball turret gunner
“I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions/ Whatever I see, I swallow immediately/ Just as it is, unfits by love or dislike”
mirror
“I am important to her. She comes and goes”
mirror
“Rises towards her day after day, like a terrible fish”
mirror
“War against the stiff brocade”
patterns
“What is Summer in a fine brocaded gown”
patterns
“The letters squirmed like snakes”
patterns
“What did I know, what did I know/ of loves austere and lonely offices”
those winter sundays
“Beautifully Janet slept/ till it was deeply morning. she woke then”
Janet Waking
“one kiss she gave to her mother/ only a small one she gave her daddy”
Janet Waking
“And would not be instructed in how deep/ Was the forgetful kingdom of death”
Janet Waking
“so much depends/ upon/ a red wheel/ barrow/ glazed with rain/ water/ beside the white/ chickens.
The red wheelbarrow
“the houses are haunted/ by white night-gowns”
disillusionment of ten o’clock
“People are not going/to dream of baboons and periwinkles”
disillusionment of ten o’clock
“Forgive me/ they were delicious/ so sweet/ and so cold”
This is just to say
“‘Think as I think,’ said a man, ‘Or you are abominably wicked”
“Think as I think,” said a man
“Heavenly hurt it gives us”
There’s a certain slant of light
“‘Tis the seal, despair/ an imperial affliction/ sent us of the air”
Theres a certain slant of light
“Succes in Circuit lies”
tell all the Truth but tell it slant
“the Truth must dazzle gradually/ or every man be blind”
tell all the truth but tell it slant
“The Stillness in the Room/ Was like the Stillness in the Air/ Between the Heaves of Storm/ The Eyes around- had wrung them dry/ And Breaths were gathering firm”
I heard a Fly buzz- when I died
“I could not see to see-“
I heard a fly buzz- when I died
“her side was warm; her fawn lay there waiting,/ alive, still, never to be born.”
Traveling through the dark
“We wear the mask that grins and lies”
We wear the mask
“It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes/ This debt we pay to human guile/ with torn and bleeding hearts we smile”
we wear the mask
“we sing, but oh the clay is vile/ Beneath our feet, and long the mile”
we wear the mask
