Louise Bogan Fire Poems

  • 1.
    IĆ¢??ve come to give you fruit from out my orchard,
    Of wide report.
    I have trees there that bear me many apples.
    Of every sort:
    ...
  • 2.
    Men loved wholly beyond wisdom
    Have the staff without the banner.
    Like a fire in a dry thicket
    Rising within women's eyes
    ...
  • 3.
    I burned my life, that I might find
    A passion wholly of the mind,
    Thought divorced from eye and bone,
    Ecstasy come to breath alone.
    ...
  • 4.
    Nothing was remembered, nothing forgotten.
    When we awoke, wagons were passing on the warm summer pavements,
    The window-sills were wet from rain in the night,
    Birds scattered and settled over chimneypots
    ...
  • 5.
    This youth too long has heard the break
    Of waters in a land of change.
    He goes to see what suns can make
    From soil more indurate and strange.
    ...
Total 5 Fire Poems by Louise Bogan

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