Ice Age (Genevieve Taggard Poems)
Noiselessly the planets will blow by,Like smoke, like breath, like driven snow; Frost-bitten suns on on, on on will blow; ...
Noiselessly the planets will blow by,Like smoke, like breath, like driven snow; Frost-bitten suns on on, on on will blow; ...
The Sun Child:Boys and girls, come out to play: The sun is up, the wind's astray, Early morning's gold is ...
Now in the fright of change when bombed towns vanishIn fountains of debrisWe say to the stranger coming across the ...
These were his songs. Now he has broken them. All he has made, that has he also slain:Seeing my beauty ...
There was a time when Mother Nature made My soul's sun, and my soul's shade. A cloud in the sky ...
What time is it? Midnight and very dark.Are you afraid? ...
If you will poise your forefoot in my pool, I will not loose a ripple, Beautiful.Crackle the fern-stems, arch aloft ...
I understand what you were running for, Slim naked boy, and why from far inland You came between dark hills. ...
Out of the forest, panther, come, Silken, supple, silent, lone-Out of the forest, drooped with night-To your delight.Under bloom and ...
Gnats and an ant have gnawed your nimble bones-You who could spring and sprawl on your own thread Down half ...
Harsh, unuttered thunderStood like a stone wallAbove the marsh's silver line.Crooked cranes, white as lightning-Flattened for an instant, flashing from ...
Fearful of beauty, I always went Timidly indifferent: Dainty, hesitant, taking in Just what was tiniest and thin; Careful not ...
What husks of last year's winter close you in, To-morrow's world-what dead, what wrinkled skin Of ancient parchments, laws, beliefs! ...
Now I am slow and placid, fond of sun,Like a sleek beast, or a worn one,No slim and languid girl ...
We who have seen the city's sentinel-Some iron-colored tower, monumentTo slow encroaching force-our thews are bent Against her girders! With ...
Your face from my face slips, Lover of my lips.Holder of my heart,For all our close companionships, We are apart.Apart, ...
The stone falls, the bird flies, the arrow goes home,But we have no motion, we scatter like foam. O, give ...
Wishes are birds. You have been circled round With them, invisible, I sent you in distress,Flown from my heart that ...
All essences of sweetness from the white Warm day go up in vapor, when the dark Comes down. Ascends the ...
Expand, accustomed worldNo longer mean and small,Tight code, mean mind, crude dream,With ghost pioneers we seeHorizons ...
A middle class fortress in which to hide! Draw down the curtain as if saying No, While noon's ablaze, ablaze ...
Winter put his shoulder To our door, Nights are turning colder More and more; ...
Fifty wizards working in the windAnd one tall wizard standing in the rearMade a quick sheen to lacquer all Vermont.Up ...
In that day Everyone will sing, Everyone will play in that day;There will be carolling. You will make poems for ...
Only to tell your loveliness-this love: Only to tellPain's odor, beauty-burning miracle Of my surrender!Late I flew…But ever arrow-straightI fly ...
Men go to women mutely for their peace; And they, who lack it most, create it when They make-because they ...
Withhold your breath!Heavy in noon, and sleepy as slow death, Garden of sweets and sours,The cluster of my body hangs ...
Leave me alone a little!Must I be yours,When all my heart is pouring with the sea Out to the moon's ...
The tree we lay underThe thunder, the thunderOf my heart, and your wonder And our weeping…Now we are old, we ...
Up that thin river, going over sand-Down that deep river, purple to the sun; My fingers fire; cool your quiet ...
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