Anthony Evan Hecht Away Poems

  • 1.
    So there stood Matthew Arnold and this girl
    With the cliffs of England crumbling away behind them,
    And he said to her, 'Try to be true to me,
    And I'll do the same for you, for things are bad
    ...
  • 2.
    As though it were reluctant to be day,
    .......Morning deploys a scale
    .......Of rarities in gray,
    And winter settles down in its chain-mail,
    ...
  • 3.
    During the plague I came into my own.
    It was a time of smoke-pots in the house
    Against infection. The blind head of bone
    Grinned its abuse
    ...
  • 4.
    On the summer road that ran by our front porch
    Lizards and snakes came out to sun.
    It was hot as a stove out there, enough to scorch
    A buzzard's foot. Still, it was fun
    ...
  • 5.
    What is unwisdom but the lusting after
    Longevity: to be old and full of days!
    For the vast and unremitting tide of years
    Casts up to view more sorrowful things than joyful;
    ...
  • 6.
    For Heinrich Blucher and Hannah Arendt
    Composed in the Tower before his execution
    These moving verses, and being brought at that time
    Painfully to the stake, submitted, declaring thus:
    ...
  • 7.
    Third Avenue in sunlight. Nature's error.
    Already the bars are filled and John is there.
    Beneath a plentiful lady over the mirror
    He tilts his glass in the mild mahogany air.
    ...
  • 8.
    Powder and scent and silence. The young dwarf
    Shoulders his lute. The moon is Levantine.
    It settles its pearl in every glass of wine.
    Harlequin is already at the wharf.
    ...
Total 8 Away Poems by Anthony Evan Hecht

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