Poems

Margaret Many birds and the beating of wings Make a flinging reckless hum In the early morning at the rocks Above the blue pool Where the […]

Mask Fling your red scarf faster and faster, dancer. It is summer and the sun loves a million green leaves, masses of green. Your red scarf […]

Masses Among the mountains I wandered and saw blue haze and red crag and was amazed; On the beach where the long push under the endless […]

Maybe Maybe he believes me, maybe not. Maybe I can marry him, maybe not. Maybe the wind on the prairie, The wind on the sea, maybe, […]

Medallion The brass medallion profile of your face I keep always. It is not jingling with loose change in my pockets. It is not stuck up […]

Mill-Doors You never come back. I say good-by when I see you going in the doors, The hopeless open doors that call and wait And take […]

Momus Momus is the name men give your face, The brag of its tone, like a long low steamboat whistle Finding a way mid mist on […]

Monosyllabic Let me be monosyllabic to-day, O Lord. Yesterday I loosed a snarl of words on a fool, on a child. To-day, let me be monosyllabic […]

Monotone The monotone of the rain is beautiful, And the sudden rise and slow relapse Of the long multitudinous rain. The sun on the hills is […]

Muckers Twenty men stand watching the mucker’s. Stabbing the sides of the ditch Where clay gleams yellow, Driving the blades of their shovels Deeper and deeper […]