Merlin (Edwin Muir Poems)
O Merlin in your crystal cave Deep in the diamond of the day, Will there ever be a singer Whose ...
O Merlin in your crystal cave Deep in the diamond of the day, Will there ever be a singer Whose ...
Unfriendly friendly universe, I pack your stars into my purse, And bid you so farewell. That I can leave you, ...
A poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit, Dumb As old medallions to the thumb, Silent as ...
A year or two, and grey Euripides, And Horace and a Lydia or so, And Euclid and the brush of ...
I will think no more of the sea! Of the big green waves And the hollowed shore, Of the brown ...
I Blow across the stagnant world, I blow across the sea, For me, the sailor's flag unfurled, For me, the ...
Through thick Arcadian woods a hunter went, Following the beasts upon a fresh spring day; But since his horn-tipped bow ...
Do you remember, O Delphic Apollo, The sunset hour by the river, when Mickey M'Grew Cried, "There's a ghost," and ...
In Arthur's house whileome was I When happily the time went by In midmost glory of his days. He held ...
I preached four thousand sermons, I conducted forty revivals, And baptized many converts. Yet no deed of mine Shines brighter ...
But, learning now that they would have her speak, She threw her wet hair backward from her brow, Her hand ...
What did I think, a storm clutching a clarinet and boarding a downtown bus, headed for lessons? I had pieces ...
The ArgumentA certain man having landed on an island in the Greek sea, found there a beautifuldamsel, whom he would ...
And doth not a meeting like this make amends For all the long years I've been wandering away -- To ...
After two sittings, now our Lady State To end her picture does the third time wait. But ere thou fall'st ...
Cherish you then the hope I shall forget At length, my lord, Pieria?-put away For your so passing sake, this ...
Moored to the same ring: The hour, the darkness and I, Our compasses hooded like falcons. Now the memory of ...
When everything was fine And the notion of sin had vanished And the earth was ready In universal peace To ...
And yet the books will be there on the shelves, separate beings, That appeared once, still wet As shining chestnuts ...
The earth keeps some vibration going There in your heart, and that is you. And if the people find you ...
Grandmother! You who sang to green valleys, And passed to a sweet repose at ninety-six, Here is your little Rita ...
We stand about this place -- we, the memories; And shade our eyes because we dread to read: "June 17th, ...
All night the dreadless Angel, unpursued, Through Heaven's wide champain held his way; till Morn, Waked by the circling Hours, ...
This weeping willow! Why do you not plant a few For the millions of children not yet born, As well ...
What needs my Shakespeare for his honored bones The labor of an age in piled stones? Or that his hallowed ...
You have become a forge of snow-white fire, A crucible of molten steel, O France! Your sons are stars who ...
Undoubtedly he will relent, and turn From his displeasure; in whose look serene, When angry most he seemed and most ...
Better than granite, Spoon River, Is the memory-picture you keep of me Standing before the pioneer men and women There ...
Descend from Heaven, Urania, by that name If rightly thou art called, whose voice divine Following, above the Olympian hill ...
There by the window in the old house Perched on the bluff, overlooking miles of valley, My days of labor ...
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