Knowing And Saying
Pathetic Fallacy And where you walked, the sullen cloud-shelf stooped Down to the water-meadows by your side. Precarious water delicately roped Lay at your feet and wreathed......
The Trick
His photograph had been in all the papers, That sensual sharper with his common trick; And the resemblance did not escape us— The dreamy eyes, the fingers on the pack, The ready......
Errors Of Observation
The idea is exciting, surely, But are your intentions really very pure? We've watched you with your little opera glasses Lying for hours in the stalky grass, And, to be honest,......
The Games
'We were to sit together at the games, But then he said his parents would come too— Old courtiers, rigged in their amethyst and gold! Why, they will wreck our fun. Not that one......
What We Most Need To Say
What we most need to say eludes the voice, Like those deep fish that sea explorers glimpse Gaping dumb mouths, ridiculous as shrimps. And when our pen, unreeling its thin line,......
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