Poems

Carol Of Occupations COME closer to me; Push close, my lovers, and take the best I possess; Yield closer and closer, and give me the best […]

Carol Of Words EARTH, round, rolling, compact–suns, moons, animals–all these are words to be said; Watery, vegetable, sauroid advances–beings, premonitions, lispings of the future, Behold! these […]

Cavalry Crossing A Ford A LINE in long array, where they wind betwixt green islands; They take a serpentine course–their arms flash in the sun–Hark to […]

Chanting The Square Deific CHANTING the square deific, out of the One advancing, out of the sides; Out of the old and new–out of the square […]

City Of Orgies CITY of orgies, walks and joys! City whom that I have lived and sung in your midst will one day make you illustrious, […]

City Of Ships CITY of ships! (O the black ships! O the fierce ships! O the beautiful, sharp-bow’d steam-ships and sail-ships!) City of the world! (for […]

Come Up From The Fields, Father COME up from the fields, father, here’s a letter from our Pete; And come to the front door, mother–here’s a […]

Come, Said My Soul Come, said my soul, Such verses for my body let us write, (For we are One), That should I after death invisibly […]

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry FLOOD-TIDE below me! I watch you face to face; Clouds of the west! sun there half an hour high! I see you also […]

Darest Thou Now O Soul Darest thou now O soul, Walk out with me toward the unknown region, Where neither ground is for the feet nor […]