Autumn Shade (Edgar Bowers Poems)
1 The autumn shade is thin. Grey leaves lie faint Where they will lie, and, where the thick green was, ...
1 The autumn shade is thin. Grey leaves lie faint Where they will lie, and, where the thick green was, ...
How shall a generation know its storyIf it will know no other? When, amongThe scoffers at the Institute, PasteurHeard one ...
Before he wrote a poem, he learned the measureThat living in the future gives a farm—Propinquity of mules and cows, ...
All winter long you listened for the boom Of distant cannon wheeled into their place. Sometimes outside beneath a bombers' ...
I summon up Panofskv from his bed Among the famous dead To build a tomb which, since I ...
Bavaria, 1946The clairvoyante, a major general's wife, The secretaries' sibyl, read the letters They brought her from their GI soldier-lovers, ...
With their harsh leaves old rhododendrons fillThe crevices in grave plots' broken stones.The bees renew the blossoms they destroy,While in ...
Her unawed face, whose pose so long assumed Is touched with what reality we feel, Bends to itself and, to ...
I'll go among the dead to see my friend. The place I leave is beautiful: the sea Repeats the winds' ...
Every month or so, Sundays, we walked the line, The limit and the boundary. Past the sweet gum Superb above ...
Long days, short nights, this Southern summer Fixes the mind within its timeless place. Athwart pale limbs the brazen hummer ...
We, who were long together homeless, raise Brick walls, wood floors, a roof, and windows up To what sustained us ...
The angel of self-discipline, her guardian Since she first knew and had to go away From home that spring to ...
Love is no more. It died as the mind dies: the pure desire Relinquishing the blissful form it wore, The ...
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