
«God help us Smoke! / — Forget that. Look at the damp. / These are the ordinary fears / of anyone moving house approaching a poor lamp / for students in miserable outskirts. / — Isn’t there even a tree / for the children? What sort of landlord will we have? Too strict? / in a ne...»
«Prince, let’s have no more disturbing / these wormy flower-beds. Look at / the living rose, and think of a woman / snatching a single day — from the few left to her. Prince Hamlet, you defile the Queen’s / womb. Enough. A virgin cannot / judge passion. Don’t you know Phaedra / w...»
«Wherever you are I can reach you / to summon up — or send you back again! / Yet I’m no sorceress. My eyes grew sharp / in the white book — of that far-off river Don. From the height of my cedar I see a world / where court decisions float, and all lights wander. / Yet from here I can...»
«1 Along these singing lines that run / from pole to pole, supporting heaven, / I send along to you my portion / of earthly dust. / From wires / to poles. This alley sighs / the telegraphic words: I lo-o-ve... I beg. (No printed form would / hold th...»