#Americans
A land of leaning ice Hugged by plaster-grey arches of s… Flings itself silently Into eternity. “Has no one come here to win you,
I met a man in South Street, tall… a nervous shark tooth swung on his… His eyes pressed through green gla… —green glasses, or bar lights made… so—
The willows carried a slow sound, A sarabande the wind mowed on the… I could never remember That seething, steady leveling of… Till age had brought me to the sea…
Moonmoth and grasshopper that flee… And still wing on, untarnished of… We pinion to your bodies to assuag… Our envy of your freedom—we must m… Because we are usurpers, and chagr…
The little voices of the prairie d… Are tireless . . . They will give three hurrahs Alike to stage, equestrian, and pu… And all unstingingly as to the moo…
The host, he says that all is well And the fire-wood glow is bright; The food has a warm and tempting s… But on the window licks the night. Pile on the logs... Give me your…
Forgetfulness is like a song That, freed from beat and measure,… Forgetfulness is like a bird whose… Outspread and motionless,— A bird that coasts the wind unwear…
It sheds a shy solemnity, This lamp in our poor room. O grey and gold amenity,— Silence and gentle gloom! Wide from the world, a stolen hour
Grand Cayman This tuft that thrives on saline n… Inverted octopus with heavenward a… Thrust parching from a palm-bole h… A bird almost⎯of almost bird alarm…
My hands have not touched pleasure… No,—nor my lips freed laughter sin… And with the day, distance again e… Voiceless between us, as an uncoil… Yet, love endures, though starving…
We make our meek adjustments, Contented with such random consola… As the wind deposits In slithered and too ample pockets… For we can still love the world, w…
Sinuously winding through the room On smokey tongues of sweetened cig… Plaintive yet proud the cello tone… The andante of smooth hopes and lo… Bright peacocks drink from flame-p…
Whose counted smile of hours and d… I know as spectrum of the sea and… Vastly now parting gulf on gulf of… Whose circles bridge, I know, (fr… Chilled albatross’s white immutabi…
Often beneath the wave, wide from… The dice of drowned men’s bones he… An embassy. Their numbers as he w… Beat on the dusty shore and were o… And wrecks passed without sound of…
Performances, assortments, résumé… Up Times Square to Columbus Circ… Channel the congresses, nightly se… Refractions of the thousand theatr… Mysterious kitchens. . . . You sh…