Poems

Locations And Times LOCATIONS and times–what is it in me that meets them all, whenever and wherever, and makes me at home? Forms, colors, densities, odors–what […]

Long I Thought That Knowledge LONG I thought that knowledge alone would suffice me–O if I could but obtain knowledge! Then my lands engrossed me–Lands of […]

Long, Too Long America Long, too long America, Traveling roads all even and peaceful you learn’d from joys and prosperity only, But now, ah now, to […]

Look Down, Fair Moon LOOK down, fair moon, and bathe this scene; Pour softly down night’s nimbus floods, on faces ghastly, swollen, purple; On the dead, […]

Manhattan Streets I Saunter’d, Pondering Manhatten’s streets I saunter’d, pondering, On time, space, reality–on such as these, and abreast with them, prudence. After all, the last […]

Mannahattan I WAS asking for something specific and perfect for my city, Whereupon, lo! upsprang the aboriginal name! Now I see what there is in a […]

Me Imperturbe ME imperturbe, standing at ease in Nature, Master of all, or mistress of all–aplomb in the midst of irrational things, Imbued as they–passive, receptive, […]

Mediums THEY shall arise in the States, They shall report Nature, laws, physiology, and happiness; They shall illustrate Democracy and the kosmos; They shall be alimentive, […]

Miracles WHY! who makes much of a miracle? As to me, I know of nothing else but miracles, Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan, Or […]

Mother And Babe I SEE the sleeping babe, nestling the breast of its mother; The sleeping mother and babe–hush’d, I study them long and long.