"In darkness and in hedges I sang my sour tone and all my love was howling conspicuously alone."

"Up the reputable walks of old established trees They stalk, children of the nouveaux riches; chimes Of the tall Clock…"

"Riot in Algeria, in Cyprus, in Alabama; Aged in wrong, the empires are declining, And China gathers, soundlessly, lik…"

"They wear their godhead lightly. They look out from their hill and say, To themselves, "We have nowhere to go but dow…"

"The sleek, expensive girls I teach, Younger and pinker every year, Bloom gradually out of reach."

"I haven't read one book about A book or memorized one plot. Or found a mind I did not doubt. I learned one date. And …"

"I taught myself to name my name, To bark back, loosen love and crying; To ease my woman so she came, To ease an old m…"

"Though trees turn bare and girls turn wives, We shall afford our costly seasons; There is a gentleness survives That …"

"I happened to find Your picture. That picture. I stopped there cold, Like a man raking piles of dead leaves in his ya…"

"It was the nature of the thing: No moon outlives its leaving night, No sun its day. And I went on Rich in the loss of…"