Archibald Macleish Light Poems
- 1. The Night Dream
To R. L.
NEITHER her voice, her name,
Eyes, quietness neither,
... - 2. Unfinished History
WE HAVE loved each other in this time twenty years
And with such love as few men have in them even for
One or for the marriage month or the hearing of
Three nights' carts in the street but it will leave them:
... - 3. The Sheep In The Ruins
for Learned and Augustus Hand
You, my friends, and you strangers, all of you,
Stand with me a little by the walls
... - 4. Ancestral
The star dissolved in eveningâ??the one star
The silently
and night O soon now, soon
And still the light now
... - 5. The Old Men In The Leaf Smoke
The old men rake the yards for winter
Burning the autumn-fallen leaves.
They have no lives, the one or the other.
The leaves are dead, the old men live
... - 6. Nocturne
The earth, still heavy and warm with afternoon,
Dazed by the moon:
The earth, tormented with the moonâ??s light,
... - 7. You, Andrew Marvell
And here face down beneath the sun
And here upon earth's noonward height
To feel the always coming on
The always rising of the night
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