| I wonder about the trees. Why do we wish to bear Forever the noise of these More than another noise So close to our dwelling place? We suffer them by the day Till we lose all measure of pace, And fixity in our joys, And acquire a listening air. They are that that talks of going But never gets away; And that talks no less for knowing, As it grows wiser and older, That now it means to stay. My feet tug at the floor And my head sways to my shoulder Sometimes when I watch trees sway, From the window or the door. I shall set forth for somewhere, I shall make the reckless choice Some day when they are in voice And tossing so as to scare The white clouds over them on. I shall have less to say, But I shall be gone. |
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Stephen Vincent Benét’s Heavens and Earth Thomas Burke’s The Song Book of Quong Lee of Limehouse Richard Burton’s Poems of Earth’s Meaning Francis Carlin’s My Ireland The Cairn of Stars Padraic Colum’s Wild Earth and Other Poems Grace Hazard Conkling’s Wilderness Songs Walter De La Mare’s The Listeners and Other Poems Peacock Pie. Ill’d by W. H. Robinson Motley and Other Poems Collected Poems 1901-1918. 2 Vols. Robert Frost’s North of Boston Mountain Interval. New Edition, with Portrait A Boy’s Will Carl Sandburg’s Cornhuskers Chicago Poems Lew Sarrett’s Many Many Moons Louis Untermeyer’s These Times ---- and Other Poets Poems of Heinrich Heine (Translated) The New Era in American Poetry Margaret Widdemer’s The Old Road to Paradise Factories and Other Poems |
THE HOME BOOK OF VERSE
American and English 1580-1918
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