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The Uncle Speaks in the Drawing Room

I have seen the mob of lateStanding sullen in the square,Gazing with a sullen stareAt window, balcony and gate.Some have talked in bitter tones,Some have held and fingered stones. These are follies that subside.Let us consider, none the less,Certain frailties…

Afterward

Now that your hopes are shamed, you standAt last believing and resigned,And none of us who touch your handKnow how to give you back in kindThe words you flung when hopes were proud:Being born to happinessAbove the asking of the…

At a Deathbed in the Year Two Thousand

I bid you cast out pity.No more of that: let beImpotent grief and mourning.How shall a man break freeFrom this deathwatch of earth,This world estranged from mirth? Show me gay faces only.I call for pride and wit.—Men who remember laughter,Brave…

Eastport to Block Island

Along the coastal waters, signals runIn waves of caution and anxiety.We’ll try the catboat out another day.So Danny stands in sea-grass by the porchTo watch a heeling dinghy, lone on grey,Grapple with moods of wind that take the bay. One…

This Beast, This Angel

No: this, my love, is neither you nor I.This is the beast or angel, changing form,The will that we are scourged and nourished by. The golden fangs, the tall seraphic sword,Alike unsheathed, await the midnight cry,Blazon their answer to the…

Why Else but to Forestall This Hour

Why else but to forestall this hour, I stayedOut of the noonday sun, kept from the rain,Swam only in familiar depths, and playedNo hand where caution signaled to refrain? For fourteen friends I walked behind the bier;A score of cousins…

A Clock in the Square

This handless clock stares blindly from its tower,Refusing to acknowledge any hour.But what can one clock do to stop the gameWhen others go on striking just the same?Whatever mite of truth the gesture held,Time may be silenced but will not…

For the Felling of an Elm in the Harvard Yard

They say the ground precisely sweptNo longer feeds with rich decayThe roots enormous in their ageThat long and deep beneath have slept. So the great spire is overthrown,And sharp saws have gone hurtling throughThe rings that three slow centuries wore;The…

Air Without Incense

We eat this body and remain ourselves.We drink this liquor, tasting wine, not blood.Among these triple icons, rites of seven,We know the feast to be of earth, not heaven:Here man is wounded, yet we speak of God.More than the Nazarene…

By No Means Native

“Yonder,” they told him, “things are not the same.”He found it understated when he came.His tongue, in hopes to find itself at home,Caught up the twist of every idiom.He learned the accent and the turn of phrase,Studied like Latin texts…