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The Great Carbuncle

We came over the moor—top Through air streaming and green—lit, Stone farms foundering in it, Valleys of grass altering In a light neither dawn Nor nightfall, out hands, faces Lucent as percelain, the earth’s Claim and weight gone out of…

Two Views Of Withens

Above whorled, spindling gorse, Sheepfoot-flattened grasses, Stone wall and ridgepole rise Prow-like through blurs Of fog in that hinterland few Hikers get to: Home of uncatchable Sage hen and spry rabbit, Where second wind, hip boot Help over hill And…

Natural History

That lofty monarch, Monarch Mind, Blue-blooded in coarse contry reigned; Though he bedded in ermine, gorged on roast, Pure Philosophy his love engrossed: While subjects hungered, empty-pursed, With stars, with angels, he conversed Till, sick of their ruler’s godling airs,…

All the Dead Dears

In the Archæological Museum in Cambridge is a stone coffin of the fourth century A.D. containing the skeletons of a woman, a mouse and a shrew. The ankle—bone of the woman has been slightly gnawed. Rigged poker —stiff on her…

The Lady and the Earthenware Head

Fired in sanguine clay, the model head Fit nowhere: thumbed out as a classroom exercise By a casual friend, it stood Obtrusive in the long bookshelf, stolidly propping Thick volumes of prose— Far too unlovely a conversation piece, Her visitor…

The Other Two

All summer we moved in a villa brimful of echos, Cool as the pearled interior of a conch. Bells, hooves, of the high-stipping black goats woke us. Around our bed the baronial furniture Foundered through levels of light seagreen and…

On The Plethora Of Dryads

Hearing a white saint rave About a quintessential beauty Visible only to the paragon heart, I tried my sight on an apple-tree That for eccentric knob and wart Had all my love. Without meat or drink I sat Starving my…

On The Difficulty Of Conjuring Up A Dryad

Ravening through the persistent bric-à-brac Of blunt pencils, rose-sprigged coffee cup, Postage stamps, stacked books’ clamor and yawp, Neighborhood cockcrow—all nature’s prodigal backtalk, The vaunting mind Snubs impromptu spiels of wind And wrestles to impose Its own order on what…

The Thin People

They are always with us, the thin people Meager of dimension as the gray people On a movie-screen.  They Are unreal, we say: It was only in a movie, it was only In a war making evil headlines when we Were…

Hardcastle Crags

Flintlike, her feet struck Such a racket of echoes from the steely street, Tacking in moon-blued crooks from the black Stone-built town, that she heard the quick air ignite Its tinder and shake A firework of echoes from wall To…