- 1. An Afternoon At The Beach
Iâ??ll go among the dead to see my friend.
The place I leave is beautiful: the sea
Repeats the windsâ?? far swell in its long sound,
And, there beside it, houses solemnly
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- 2. Autumn Shade
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The autumn shade is thin. Grey leaves lie faint
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- 3. The Stoic: For Laura Von Courten
All winter long you listened for the boom
Of distant cannon wheeled into their place.
Sometimes outside beneath a bombersâ?? moon
You stood alone to watch the searchlights trace
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- 4. Clear-seeing
Bavaria, 1946
The clairvoyante, a major generalâ??s wife,
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- 5. The Virgin Considered As A Picture
Her unawed face, whose pose so long assumed
Is touched with what reality we feel,
Bends to itself and, to itself resumed,
Restores a tender fiction to the real.
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- 6. Mary
The angel of self-discipline, her guardian
Since she first knew and had to go away
From home that spring to have her child with strangers,
Sustained her, till the vanished boy next door
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- 7. The Mountain Cemetery
With their harsh leaves old rhododendrons fill
The crevices in grave plots' broken stones.
The bees renew the blossoms they destroy,
While in the burning air the pines rise still,
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