Nirvana Days (Cale Young Rice Poems)
I If I were in Japan today, In little Japan today, I'd watch the sampan-rowers ride On Yokohama ...
I If I were in Japan today, In little Japan today, I'd watch the sampan-rowers ride On Yokohama ...
I (_Before He Comes_) Sweet under swooning blue and mellow mist September waves of forest overflow The hills with crimson, ...
No, no, my friend; there is an agony Not to be exorcised out of the world By any ...
IO you poets, ever pretending Love is immortal, pipe the truth!Empty your books of lies, the ending Of no passion ...
What memories have I of it, The sea, continent-clasping, The sea whose spirit is a sorcery, The ...
Tonight as I was riding on a wave Of triumph and of glory, A Question suddenly, as from the ...
Down the palm-way from Eden in the mid-night Lay dreaming Eve by her outdriven mate, Pillowed on lilies ...
I took the trail to the wooded canyon, The trail from the sea: For I heard a calling ...
Art thou enraged, O sea, with the blue peace Of heaven, so to uplift thine arm?d waves, Thy ...
The sea asleep like a dreamer sighs; The salt rock-pools lie still in the sun, Except for ...
(_The Cry of the Modern_) World-sorrow have I known, like unto God. Nothing there is of pain but echoes down ...
Ah, it was here--September And silence filled the air-- I came last year to remember, And muse, ...
When moonlight on the face Of the great Buddha falls As he sits in Nirvana ...
Give over, O sea! You never shall reach Nirvana! Your tides, like the tidal generations, ever shall rise and ...
I know, Lord, Thou hast sent Him-- Thou art so good to me!-- But Thou hast only lent ...
All the ships of the world come here, Rest a little, then set to sea; Some ride ...
Little torch-bearer, alone with me in the night, You cannot light the sea, nor I illumine life. They ...
When we two walk, my love, on the path The moon makes over the sea, To the ...
Down thro Florida keys, From island, to island! Down thro Florida keys, Where mangrove roots dip ...
I want to go back to Singapore And ship along the Straits,To a bungalow I know beside Penang; Where cocoanut ...
I know not where it was I saw them sit, For in my dreams I had outwandered far That endless ...
IThe illimitable leaping of the sea,The mouthing of his madness to the moon,The seething of his endless sorcery,His prophecy no ...
(_On the South Seas_) When I return to the world again, The world of fret and fight, ...
(_Out of Hong-kong_) Never again, never again Did I hope to breathe such joy! The sea ...
The little song-sparrow is gone And the summer is nearly ended, The rill of his song was a ...
1 I met a child upon the moor A-wading down the heather; She put her hand ...
Last night I slipt from the banks of dream And swam in the currents of God, On a tide where ...
Come over the tide, Come over the foam, Dance on the hurricane, leap its waves, Dream not ...
(MIYAJIMA, JAPAN, 1905) Lowly temple and torii, Shrine where the spirits of wind and wave Find the ...
The fierce sea-sunset over the world Springs like a wounded spirit,The waves all day have hissed and hurledTheir fangs and ...
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