Leave-Taking (Louise Bogan Poems)
I do not know where either of us can turnJust at first, waking from the sleep of each other.I do ...
Louise Bogan Poems (26 Poems)
Statue And Birds (Louise Bogan Poems)
Here, in the withered arbor, like the arrested wind,Straight sides, carven knees,Stands the statue, with hands flung out in alarmOr ...
Chanson Un Peu Na (Louise Bogan Poems)
What body can be ploughed,Sown, and broken yearly?But she would not die, she vowed,But she has, nearly.Sing, heart sing;Call and ...
Cassandra (Louise Bogan Poems)
To me, one silly task is like another.I bare the shambling tricks of lust and pride.This flesh will never give ...
Words For Departure (Louise Bogan Poem)
Nothing was remembered, nothing forgotten. When we awoke, wagons were passing on the warm summer pavements, The window-sills were wet ...
The Alchemist (Louise Bogan Poem)
I burned my life, that I may find A passion wholly of the mind, Thought divorced from eye and bone ...
The Crossed Apple (Louise Bogan Poem)
I've come to give you fruit from out my orchard, Of wide report. I have trees there that bear me ...
The Dream (Louise Bogan Poem)
O God, in the dream the terrible horse began To paw at the air, and make for me with his ...
The Frightened Man (Louise Bogan Poem)
In fear of the rich mouth I kissed the thin,-- Even that was a trap To snare me in. Even ...
Women (Louise Bogan Poem)
Women have no wilderness in them, They are provident instead, Content in the tight hot cell of their hearts To ...
Roman Fountain (Louise Bogan Poem)
Up from the bronze, I saw Water without a flaw Rush to its rest in air, Reach to its rest, ...
Solitary Observation Brought Back From A Sojourn In Hell (Louise Bogan Poem)
At midnight tears Run in your ears. (Louise Bogan)
Song For The Last Act (Louise Bogan Poem)
Now that I have your face by heart, I look Less at its features than its darkening frame Where quince ...
Sonnet (Louise Bogan Poem)
Since you would claim the sources of my thought Recall the meshes whence it sprang unlimed, The reedy traps which ...
Tears In Sleep (Louise Bogan Poem)
All night the cocks crew, under a moon like day, And I, in the cage of sleep, on a stranger's ...
Medusa (Louise Bogan Poem)
I had come to the house, in a cave of trees, Facing a sheer sky. Everything moved, -- a bell ...
Men Loved Wholly Beyond Wisdom (Louise Bogan Poem)
Men loved wholly beyond wisdom Have the staff without the banner. Like a fire in a dry thicket Rising within ...
Portrait (Louise Bogan Poem)
She has no need to fear the fall Of harvest from the laddered reach Of orchards, nor the tide gone ...
Last Hill In A Vista (Louise Bogan Poem)
Come, let us tell the weeds in ditches How we are poor, who once had riches, And lie out in ...
Chanson Un Peu Naïve (Louise Bogan Poem)
What body can be ploughed, Sown, and broken yearly? But she would not die, she vowed, But she has, nearly. ...
A Tale (Louise Bogan Poem)
This youth too long has heard the break Of waters in a land of change. He goes to see what ...
Epitaph For A Romantic Woman (Louise Bogan Poem)
She has attained the permanence She dreamed of, where old stones lie sunning. Untended stalks blow over her Even and ...
Knowledge (Louise Bogan Poem)
Now that I know How passion warms little Of flesh in the mould, And treasure is brittle,-- I'll lie here ...
Man Alone (Louise Bogan Poem)
It is yourself you seek In a long rage, Scanning through light and darkness Mirrors, the page, Where should reflected ...
Betrothed (Louise Bogan Poem)
You have put your two hands upon me, and your mouth, You have said my name as a prayer. Here ...
Juan’s Song (Louise Bogan Poems)
When beauty breaks and falls asunder I feel no grief for it, but wonder. When love, like a frail shell, ...