Louise Bogan Light Poems

  • 1.
    It is yourself you seek
    In a long rage,
    Scanning through light and darkness
    Mirrors, the page,
    ...
  • 2.
    Come, let us tell the weeds in ditches
    How we are poor, who once had riches,
    And lie out in the sparse and sodden
    Pastures that the cows have trodden,
    ...
  • 3.
    All night the cocks crew, under a moon like day,
    And I, in the cage of sleep, on a stranger's breast,
    Shed tears, like a task not to be put away---
    In the false light, false grief in my happy bed,
    ...
  • 4.
    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.
    ...
  • 5.
    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
    ...
  • 6.
    Now that I know
    How passion warms little
    Of flesh in the mould,
    And treasure is brittle,--
    ...
  • 7.
    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 7 Light Poems by Louise Bogan

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