Gamaliel Bradford World Poems

• 1. Fear
  When I was little,
  My life was half fear.
  My nerves were as brittle
  As nature may bear.
  ...
• 2. 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.
  ...
• 3. Winds Of Wrath
  Silly little bird,
  Singing of its love,
  Sang and never heard
  Winds of wrath above.
  ...
• 4. Exit God
  Of old our father's God was real,
  Something they almost saw,
  Which kept them to a stern ideal
  And scourged them into awe.
  ...
• 5. Why?
  Hist! Zop!
  The world is all awry.
  Think that you can mend it?
  Take a turn and try.
  ...
• 6. The Drone
  I might have been a worker, but I'm nothing but a drone.
  I tell my idle stories in a philosophic tone.
  In a fuzzy, spiny mantle of remoteness softly furled
  I lie and watch with half-shut eyes the stupefying world.
  ...

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