#Americans
‘This envelope you say has somethi… Which once belonged to your dead s… He knew, was fond of? Something… The soul flies far, and we can onl… By things like these . . . a photo…
‘My towers at last!’— What meant the word from what acknowledged circuit spr… and in the heart and on the tongue at sight of few familiar birds
The day opens with the brown light… And past the window snowflakes fal… I sit in my chair all day and work… Measuring words against each other… I open the piano and play a tune
It is morning, Senlin says, and i… When the light drips through the s… I arise, I face the sunrise, And do the things my fathers learn… Stars in the purple dusk above the…
After the movie, when the lights c… He takes her powdered hand behind… She, all in yellow, like a butterc… Lifts her white face, yearns up to… And with a silent, gliding step th…
The first soft snowflakes hovering… From one white cloud that hurries… Whispering over the black unfrozen… Silently falling on withered leave… Eddying slowly among bare boughs o…
The cigarette smoke loops and slid… Dipping and swirling as the waiter… You strike a match and stare upon… The tiny firelight leaps in your e… And dies away as silently as it ca…
The round red sun heaves darkly ou… The walls and towers are warmed an… Sounds go drowsily up from streets… The city stirs like one that is ha… And the mist flows up by dazzling…
It is a shabby backdrop of bright… one of the small interstices of ti… the worn out north star northward,… to westward spread in ruined light… the other stars disposed,—or indis…
The snow floats down upon us, ming… It eddies around pale lilac lamps,… Down golden-windowed walls. We were all born of flesh, in a fl… We do not remember the red roots w…
From time to time, lifting his eye… The soft blue starlight through th… The moon above black trees, and cl… And turns to write . . . The clo… It is so long, indeed, since I ha…
When you are not surprised, not su… nor leap in imagination from sunli… or from shadow into sunlight suiting the color of fright or del… to the bewildering circumstance
Behold me, in my chiffon, gauze, a… Flitting out of the shadow into th… And into the shadow again, without… Firefly’s my name, I am evanescen… Firefly’s your name. You are evan…
Beloved, let us once more praise t… Let us discover some new alphabet, For this, the often praised; and b… The rain, the chickweed, and the b… The green-white privet flower, the…
Now the great wheel of darkness an… Whirs and whirls in the heavens wi… Against the ice-white wall of ligh… Skeleton trees bow down in a strea… Leaves, black leaves and smoke, ar…