- 1. Winter Dream
Oh wind-swept towers,
Oh endlessly blossoming trees,
White clouds and lucid eyes,
And pools in the rocks whose unplumbed blue is pregnant
...
- 2. The Defeat Of Youth
I. UNDER THE TREES.
There had been phantoms, pale-remembered shapes
Of this and this occasion, sisterly
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- 3. The Alien
A petal drifted loose
From a great magnolia bloom,
Your face hung in the gloom,
Floating, white and close.
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- 4. Revelation
At your mouth, white and milk-warm sphinx,
I taste a strange apocalypse:
Your subtle taper finger-tips
Weave me new heavens, yet, methinks,
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- 5. L'aprë"s-midi D'un Faune
(From the French of Stë©phane Mallarmë©.)
I would immortalize these nymphs: so bright
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- 6. Waking
Darkness had stretched its colour,
Deep blue across the pane:
No cloud to make night duller,
No moon with its tarnish stain;
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- 7. Italy
There is a country in my mind,
Lovelier than a poet blind
Could dream of, who had never known
This world of drought and dust and stone
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- 8. The Reef
My green aquarium of phantom fish,
Goggling in on me through the misty panes;
My rotting leaves and fields spongy with rains;
My few clear quiet autumn days--I wish
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- 9. A Little Memory
White in the moonlight,
Wet with dew,
We have known the languor
Of being two.
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