1 A SONG for occupations! In the labor of engines and trades and the labor of fields I find the developments, And find the eternal meanings. Workmen a...
2 Souls of men and women! it is not you I call unseen, unheard, untouchable and untouching, It is not you I go argue pro and con about, and to settle ...
A SONG of the rolling earth, and of words according, Were you thinking that those were the words, those upright lines? those curves, angles, dots? No,...
There is grey in your hair. Young men no longer suddenly catch their breath When you are passing; But maybe some old gaffer mutters a blessing Because...
Others because you did not keep That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine; Yet always when I look death in the face, When I clamber to the heights...
This night has been so strange that it seemed As if the hair stood up on my head. From going-down of the sun I have dreamed That women laughing, or ti...
SONG OF THE UNIVERSAL 1 COME said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet yet has chanted, Sing me the universal. In this broad earth of ours, Amid the measu...
2 Lo! keen-eyed towering science, As from tall peaks the modern overlooking, Successive absolute fiats issuing. Yet again, lo! the soul, above all sci...
Hands, do what you‘re bid: Bring the balloon of the mind That bellies and drags in the wind Into its narrow shed....
Come play with me; Why should you run Through the shaking tree As though I‘d a gun To strike you dead? When all I would do Is to scratch your he...