The Song Of Rebellion (Benjamin Musser Poems)
I am the Song of Rebellion.Murmuring in breasts of Grecian galley slaves,Sobbing in parched throats of pyramid hewers and builders,Rankling ...
Benjamin Musser Poems (38 Poems)
How To Treat A Poet (Benjamin Musser Poems)
Break his spirit, until heWrite for popularity.If he thirst, bid him drinkFloods of sentimental ink;Then, with inspiration spent,Make him Poetry ...
Trees (Benjamin Musser Poems)
Though each one has a head of wood,Theirs is a wiser brotherhoodThan any man has understood:The giant sequoia, with his ...
Posthumous Love (Benjamin Musser Poems)
Night; and so we share a bed ...You have never guessed One who is completely deadHolds you to his breast.Hide ...
Ballad Of A New Villon (Benjamin Musser Poems)
They are closing in, John Henry,The law-dogs loudly bay;Where will you hide your frightened heartTonight, where will you stay?The Church ...
Go, If You Will (Benjamin Musser Poems)
Go, if you will; you will not be the firstThat looked for beauty in a field or stream,Nor the last ...
Drift (Benjamin Musser Poems)
He who has lived on mountainsAnd echoed the wind through rain,And heard the crash of tall thunder,Hears nothing on a ...
Rubicon (Benjamin Musser Poems)
I must go on: There may be ways unseenFor you to elude exigencies of fate;You may know subtle means to ...
Heretic (Benjamin Musser Poems)
A silly dreaming urchin, I secretly possessedTwo special companions. The one was sad and pale,With a lamb across his shoulder. ...
Resurrection (Benjamin Musser Poems)
Beauty? To you she comes in whiteFeminine word, soft word and phrase;Pastel tint in her rhythm plays,And her tread is ...
The Dumb Wife Speaks (Benjamin Musser Poems)
Better go your lone wayAnd let me go alone,Let me sit with empty heartAnd make no moan.Something in the great ...
Equinox (Benjamin Musser Poems)
Gray rain, gray sand, gray gulls wheeling upOver tumbling mountains of yellow-gray foam;Needle rain of silver crying to the gray ...
On The Path (Benjamin Musser Poems)
So casually we met, our meeting endedBy casual farewell, a commonplaceOnly our inner vision comprehended:Our hands had bridged illimitable space.Our ...
August Interval (Benjamin Musser Poems)
I break the mirror waterwise,Shattering reflected skiesAbove our pool. I cannot bearThat any cloud be perfecterThan that which, breathing, lives ...
Paradox (Benjamin Musser Poems)
We are a regiment, whose martial cryIs the cry of peace! Above war's puppet deadOur avenging banner trails across the ...
Lines To E. A. (Benjamin Musser Poems)
Never mind my haunted eyesNor try to plumb a mystery;You would not evince surpriseHad you studied history.You would understand, had ...
The Watcher (Benjamin Musser Poems)
Always she seems to stand there, waiting ... waiting...Her vigil never abating,Her secret locked in her breast.Silhouetted against the sun, ...
Quebec (Benjamin Musser Poems)
Striking hard flint With his iron-shod flesh,A grandfather nagDraws an old caleche;Old caleche climbing Up a cobblestone hill,While river boats ...
Retail Market (Benjamin Musser Poems)
Each laden with her marketing and scandal,They held the center of the crowded walk;Our reputation wasn't worth a candleWhen filtered ...
The Cure (Benjamin Musser Poems)
There's little in a green wood,Little in a dry,Can ease a man's heartWhen his heart is awry,When foot-crushed twigsOnly terrify;When ...
The Sea Is All Women (Benjamin Musser Poems)
The sea is composite woman, many in one:Coquette, cocotte, a termagant, a nun.Madly she flings her love and wraps you ...
Keepers On The Tower (Benjamin Musser Poems)
Theirs is a blest intrigue,They are in league,God and my conscience, in conspiracyTo parch my corporal being utterly.Every time I ...
Blue Funk (Benjamin Musser Poems)
Nameless terror dogged his heel,Little fears loomed large and black,Till his head began to reelAnd his manhood crack.There was no ...
Tapers To St. Beelzebub (Benjamin Musser Poems)
Stepping demurely, two by two,Those rapped at Paradise; and went through.In flame to shame the golden sun,These flew to Sheol, ...
Rules Are Made To Break (Benjamin Musser Poems)
Some of you know how to play;Some, like me, are workaday.Any mule can toil and plod;Orpheus, playing, was a God!While ...
Shouting Quiet (Benjamin Musser Poems)
Let us relax, and rest a timeFrom our small thunder,Even though idiots, wading slime,Go under.The world is not reformed by ...
The Sage (Benjamin Musser Poems)
Then his brain snapped, or he swore it did; and soNever was he more sane: for it must be Their ...
Labels (Benjamin Musser Poems)
Contentment is the will to beEnjoyment in monotony.Contentment is a Joshua's willTo make the universe stand still.While rebels spurn the ...
Poetry Recitalist (Benjamin Musser Poems)
A connoisseur, he holds his bookAnd picks his pieces daintily,--A prince with patronizing look,As though such feast must surely be ...
Irish Fisher Dirge (Benjamin Musser Poems)
Sweep, sea, over his formGently down uncharted lanes;Wrap his lovely body warmIn polyp-silken skeins.Fisherfolk, still not too near:One of you ...