«I’m just a girl. My duty’s e’er / Before I wedding keep / To know that wolves are everywhere / And that I am a sheep. To dream of golden-castled glen / To swing and twirl and shake / At first a doll, and later then / The dollish thing I make. A sword in hand does not me suit, / ...»
«I know the truth! All former truths are swept away! / No longer now do people need to fight each other. / And see: the evening’s here; and see, night ends the day. / So what have you to say, O poet, general, lover? And now a wind blows up; the dew begins to seep, / And in the sky a starry...»
«I am. You will be. ’Twixt us there’s a chasm. / I drink. You thirst. Agreeing is but futile. / A decade, no, a hundred thousand years / Divide us. God above does not build bridges. So be! Now that is my commandment. Now let / Me by. I wouldn’t want your growing stunted / Because I b...»
«My memory weighs down hard upon my shoulder, / When I’m in paradise I’ll weep for earth, / And when we meet past-uttered words won’t moulder — / For what they’re worth. Where hosts of graceful harping angels flutter, / Where lilies bloom as choir of children plays, / Where all i...»