Poems

All Night, All Night Rode in the train all night, in the sick light. A bird Flew parallel with a singular will. In daydream’s moods and […]

America, America! I am a poet of the Hudson River and the heights above it, the lights, the stars, and the bridges I am also by […]

Apollo Musagete, Poetry, And The Leader Of The Muses Nothing is given which is not taken. Little or nothing is taken which is not freely desired, […]

Archaic Bust Of Apollo We cannot know the indescribable face Where the eyes like apples ripened. Even so, His torso has a candelabra’s glow, His gaze, […]

At This Moment Of Time Some who are uncertain compel me. They fear The Ace of Spades. They fear Loves offered suddenly, turning from the mantelpiece, […]

By Circumstances Fed By circumstances fed Which divide attention Among the living and the dead, Under the blooms of the blossoming sun, The gaze which is […]

Calmly We Walk Through This April’s Day Calmly we walk through this April’s day, Metropolitan poetry here and there, In the park sit pauper and rentier, […]

Cambridge, Spring 1937 At last the air fragrant, the bird’s bubbling whistle Succinct in the unknown unsettled trees: O little Charles, beside the Georgian colleges And […]

Concerning The Synthetic Unity Of Apperception “Trash, trash!” the king my uncle said, “The spirit’s smoke and weak as smoke ascends. “Sit in the sun and […]

Far Rockaway The radiant soda of the seashore fashions Fun, foam and freedom. The sea laves The Shaven sand. And the light sways forward On self-destroying […]