Gamaliel Bradford Delight Poems

• 1. The Pack
  A bit of metaphysics or a psychologic catch
  Will sit upon my breast all day and scratch and scratch and
  scratch. Now isn't it a pity that the ragged thorns of culture Should be tearing at my vitals, as Prometheus's the vulture?
  
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• 2. Ardor
  Others make verses of grace.
  Mine are all muscle and sinew.
  Others can picture your face.
  But I all the tumult within you.
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• 3. Who Cares?
  Who cares,
  Though age oppress,
  And griefs distress,
  And the long, long day
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• 4. Greeks
  You really can't imagine how I love the ancient Greeks.
  I love the dancing language where their mobile spirit speaks.
  I love the songs of Homer, flowing on like streams of light,
  With a touch of human kindness in the splendid shock of fight.
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• 5. Brown Leaves
  The passage of dead leaves in spring
  Is like the aged vanishing.
  Amid the bustle and delight
  Of beauty thronging sound and sight,
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• 6. Leaves
  Down come the leaves,
  Like fleeting years,
  Or idle tears
  Of love that grieves.
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• 7. The Idle Wind
  The idle wind blows all the day.
  I wish it blew my care away.
  The idle wind blows all day long
  And weaves a burden to my song
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• 8. Heinelet Ii
  They met, as it were, in a mist,
  Pale, curious, eager, uncertain.
  When each clasped the other and kissed,
  The mist rolled aside like a curtain.
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