Brooks Haxton Water Poems

  • 1.
    Cattle egrets in the dry grass waded
    like white clerics at the hooves
    of brood cows, heifers, and new calves.

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  • 2.
    Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy
    waterspouts. Psalm 42

    The waterfall in sunlight is God
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  • 3.
    Why art thou cast down, O my soul? Psalm 42

    Down from twilight into dark at noon,
    through darker, down until the black
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Total 3 Water Poems by Brooks Haxton

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God 4 Water 3 Young 3 Black 3 Light 3 Sun 2 Soul 2 Dark 2 Long 2 Fever 2

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Vain Hope
 by Ernest Dowson

Sometimes, to solace my sad heart, I say,
Though late it be, though lily-time be past,
Though all the summer skies be overcast,
Haply I will go down to her, some day,
And cast my rests of life before her feet,
That she may have her will of me, being so sweet
And none gainsay!

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