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because they are too near.</div> <bR> <div> Your slightest look easily will unclose me</div> <div> though I have closed myself as fingers,</div> <div> you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens</div> <div> (touching skilfully, mysteriously) her first rose</div> <bR> <div> or if you wish be to close me, I and</div> <div> my life will be shut very beautifully, suddenly,</div> <div> as when the heart of this flower imagines</div> <div> the snow carefully everywhere descending;</div> <bR> <div> nothing of which we have to perceive in this world equals</div> <div> the power of your intense fragility: whose texture</div> <div> compels me with the colour of its countries,</div> <div> rendering death and forever with each breathing.</div> <bR> <div> (I do not know what it is about you that closes</div> <div> and opens; only something in me understands</div> <div> the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)</div> <div> nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands.</div> <bR> <div> <B>----------------------------------------------------------------------</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>DOVEGLION </b></div> <bR> <div> <B>he isn't looking at anything </b></div> <div> <B>he isn't looking for something </b></div> <div> <B>he isn't looking </b></div> <div> <B>he is seeing</b></div> <bR> <div> <B> what</b></div> <div> <B>not something outside himself</b></div> <div> <B>not anything inside himself</b></div> <div> <B>but himself himself </b></div> <bR> <div> <B>how </b></div> <bR> <div> <B>not as some anyone </b></div> <div> <B>not as any someone </b></div> <div> <B>o</b><B>nly as a noone(who is everyone)</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>Spring is like a perhaps hand</b></div> <div> <B>(which comes carefully</b></div> <div> <B>out of Nowhere)arranging</b></div> <div> <B>a window,into which people look(while</b></div> <div> <B>people stare</b></div> <div> <B>arranging and changing placing</b></div> <div> <B>carefully there a strange</b></div> <div> <B>thing and a known thing here)and</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>changing everything carefully</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>spring is like a perhaps</b></div> <div> <B>Hand in a window</b></div> <div> <B>(carefully to</b></div> <div> <B>and from moving New and</b></div> <div> <B>Old things,while</b></div> <div> <B>people stare carefully</b></div> <div> <B>moving a perhaps</b></div> <div> <B>fraction of flower here placing</b></div> <div> <B>an inch of air there)and</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>without breaking anything.</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>---------------------------------------------------------------------</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>If </b></div> <bR> <div> <B>If freckles were lovely, and day was night,</b></div> <div> <B>And measles were nice and a lie warn't a lie,</b></div> <div> <B>Life would be delight,-</b></div> <div> <B>But things couldn't go right </b></div> <div> <B>For in such a sad plight</b></div> <div> <B>I wouldn't be I.</b><B> </b></div> <div> <B>If earth was heaven, and now was hence,</b></div> <div> <B>And past was present, and false was true,</b></div> <div> <B>There might be some sense </b></div> <div> <B>But I'd be in suspense</b></div> <div> <B>For on such a pretense</b></div> <div> <B>You wouldn't be you.</b><B> </b></div> <div> <B>If fear was plucky, and globes were square,</b></div> <div> <B>And dirt was cleanly and tears were glee</b></div> <div> <B>Things would seem fair,-</b></div> <div> <B>Yet they'd all despair,</b></div> <div> <B>For if here was there</b></div> <div> <B>We wouldn't be we. </b></div> <bR> <div> <B>---------------------------------------------------------------------</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>in time of daffodils</b><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFCC" FACE="5thGrader" ><B> </b></FONT></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>in time of daffodils (who know</b></div> <div> <B>the goal of living is to grow)</b></div> <div> <B>forgetting why,remember how</b><B> </b></div> <bR> <div> <B>in time of lilacs who proclaim</b></div> <div> <B>the aim of waking is to dream,</b></div> <div> <B>remember so (forgetting seem)</b><B> </b></div> <bR> <div> <B>in time of roses (who amaze</b></div> <div> <B>our now and here with paradise)</b></div> <div> <B>forgetting if,remember yes</b><B> </b></div> <bR> <div> <B>in time of all sweet things beyond</b></div> <div> <B>whatever mind may comprehend,</b></div> <div> <B>remember seek (forgetting find)</b><B> </b></div> <bR> <div> <B>and in a mystery to be</b></div> <div> <B>(when time from time shall set us free)</b></div> <div> <B>forgetting me,remember me </b></div> <bR> <div> <B>-----------------------------------------------------------------------</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>Maggie and Milly and Molly and May </b></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Maggie and Milly and Molly and May</b></div> <div> <B>went down to the beach (to play one day)</b><B> </b></div> <bR> <div> <B>and Maggie discovered a shell that sang</b></div> <div> <B>so sweetly she couldn’t remember her troubles,and</b><B> </b></div> <bR> <div> <B>Milly befriended a stranded star</b></div> <div> <B>whose rays five languid fingers were;</b><B> </b></div> <bR> <div> <B>and Molly was chased by a horrible thing</b></div> <div> <B>which raced sideways while blowing bubbles : and</b><B> </b></div> <bR> <div> <B>May came home with a smooth round stone</b></div> <div> <B>as small as a world and as large as alone.</b><B> </b></div> <bR> <div> <B>For whatever we lose (like a you or a me)</b></div> <div> <B>it’s always ourselves we find in the sea </b></div> <bR> <div> <B>------------------------------------------------------------------------</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>i like my body when it is with your </b></div> <bR> <div> <B> </b></div> <div> <B>i like my body when it is with your</b></div> <div> <B>body. It is so quite new a thing.</b></div> <div> <B>Muscles better and nerves more.</b></div> <div> <B>i like your body. i like what it does,</b></div> <div> <B>i like its hows. i like to feel the spine</b></div> <div> <B>of your body and its bones, and the trembling</b></div> <div> <B>-firm-smooth ness and which i will</b></div> <div> <B>again and again and again</b></div> <div> <B>kiss, i like kissing this and that of you,</b></div> <div> <B>i like, slowly stroking the, shocking fuzz</b></div> <div> <B>of your electric fur, and what-is-it comes</b></div> <div> <B>over parting flesh ... And eyes big love-crumbs,</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>and possibly i like the thrill</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>of under me you so quite new </b></div> <bR> <div> <B>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>i carry your heart with me </b></div> <bR> <div> <B> </b></div> <div> <B>i carry your heart with me (i carry it in</b></div> <div> <B>my heart) i am never without it (anywhere</b></div> <div> <B>i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done</b></div> <div> <B>by only me is your doing,my darling)</b></div> <div> <B>i fear</b></div> <div> <B>no fate (for you are my fate,my sweet) i want</b></div> <div> <B>no world (for beautiful you are my world,my true)</b></div> <div> <B>and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant</b></div> <div> <B>and whatever a sun will always sing is you</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>here is the deepest secret nobody knows</b></div> <div> <B>(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud</b></div> <div> <B>and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows</b></div> <div> <B>higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)</b></div> <div> <B>and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart) </b></div> <bR> <div> <B>-------------------------------------------------------------------------</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>if i </b></div> <bR> <div> <B> </b></div> <div> <B>if i</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>or anybody don't</b></div> <div> <B>know where it her his</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>my next meal's coming from</b></div> <div> <B>i say to hell with that</b></div> <div> <B>that doesn't matter (and if</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>he she it or everybody gets a </b></div> <div> <B>bellyful without </b></div> <div> <B>lifting my finger i say to hell</b></div> <div> <B>with that i</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>say that doesn't matter) but</b></div> <div> <B>if somebody</b></div> <div> <B>or you are beautiful or </b></div> <div> <B>deep or generous what </b></div> <div> <B>i say is</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>whistle that</b></div> <div> <B>sing that yell that spell</b></div> <div> <B>that out big (bigger than cosmic</b></div> <div> <B>rays war earthquakes famine or the ex</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>prince of whoses diving into </b></div> <div> <B>a whatses to rescue miss nobody's </b></div> <div> <B>probably handbag) because i say that's not</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>swell (get me) babe not (understand me) lousy</b></div> <div> <B>kid that's something else my sweet (i feel that's </b></div> <bR> <div> <B>true) </b></div> <bR> <div> <B>-----------------------------------------------------------------</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>it is at moments after I have dreamed </b></div> <bR> <div> <B> </b></div> <div> <B>it is at moments after i have dreamed</b></div> <div> <B>of the rare entertainment of your eyes,</b></div> <div> <B>when(being fool to fancy)i have deemed</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>with your peculiar mouth my heart made wise;</b></div> <div> <B>at moments when the glassy darkness holds</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>the genuine apparition of your smile</b></div> <div> <B>(it was through tears always)and silence moulds</b></div> <div> <B>such strangeness as was mine a little while;</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>moments when my once more illustrious arms</b></div> <div> <B>are filled with fascination,when my breast</b></div> <div> <B>wears the intolerant brightness of your charms:</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>one pierced moment whiter than the rest</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>-turning from the tremendous lie of sleep</b></div> <div> <B>i watch the roses of the day grow deep. </b></div> <bR> <div> <B>-----------------------------------------------------------------------</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>it may not always be so </b></div> <bR> <div> <B> </b></div> <div> <B>it may not always be so; and i say</b></div> <div> <B>that if your lips, which i have loved, should touch</b></div> <div> <B>another's, and your dear strong fingers clutch</b></div> <div> <B>his heart, as mine in time not far away;</b></div> <div> <B>if on another's face your sweet hair lay</b></div> <div> <B>in such a silence as i know, or such</b></div> <div> <B>great writhing words as, uttering overmuch,</b></div> <div> <B>stand helplessly before the spirit at bay;</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>if this should be, i say if this should be --</b></div> <div> <B>you of my heart, send me a little word;</b></div> <div> <B>that i may go unto him, and take his hands,</b></div> <div> <B>saying, Accept all happiness from me.</b></div> <div> <B>Then shall i turn my face, and hear one bird</b></div> <div> <B>sing terribly afar in the lost lands. </b></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>-------------------------------------------------------------</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>may i feel said he </b></div> <bR> <div> <B> </b></div> <div> <B>may i feel said he</b></div> <div> <B>(i'll squeal said she</b></div> <div> <B>just once said he)</b></div> <div> <B>it's fun said she</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>(may i touch said he</b></div> <div> <B>how much said she</b></div> <div> <B>a lot said he)</b></div> <div> <B>why not said she </b></div> <bR> <div> <B>(let's go said he</b></div> <div> <B>not too far said she</b></div> <div> <B>what's too far said he</b></div> <div> <B>where you are said she) </b></div> <bR> <div> <B>may i stay said he</b></div> <div> <B>which way said she</b></div> <div> <B>like this said he</b></div> <div> <B>if you kiss said she</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>may i move said he</b></div> <div> <B>is it love said she)</b></div> <div> <B>if you're willing said he</b></div> <div> <B>(but you're killing said she</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>but it's life said he</b></div> <div> <B>but your wife said she</b></div> <div> <B>now said he)</b></div> <div> <B>ow said she</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>(tiptop said he</b></div> <div> <B>don't stop said she</b></div> <div> <B>oh no said he)</b></div> <div> <B>go slow said she </b></div> <bR> <div> <B>(cccome?said he</b></div> <div> <B>ummm said she)</b></div> <div> <B>you're divine!said he</b></div> <div> <B>(you are Mine said she) </b></div> <bR> <div> <B>-------------------------------------------------------</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>since feeling is first </b></div> <bR> <div> <B> </b></div> <div> <B>since feeling is first</b></div> <div> <B>who pays any attention</b></div> <div> <B>to the syntax of things</b></div> <div> <B>will never wholly kiss you; </b></div> <bR> <div> <B>wholly to be a fool</b></div> <div> <B>while Spring is in the world </b></div> <bR> <div> <B>my blood approves,</b></div> <div> <B>and kisses are a better fate</b></div> <div> <B>than wisdom</b></div> <div> <B>lady i swear by all the flowers. Don't cry</b></div> <div> <B>- the best gesture of my brain is less than</b></div> <div> <B>your eyelids' flutter which says </b></div> <bR> <div> <B>we are for each other: then</b></div> <div> <B>laugh, leaning back in my arms</b></div> <div> <B>for life's not a paragraph </b></div> <bR> <div> <B>and death i think is no parenthesis </b></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>---------------------------------------------------------------------</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>what if a much of a which of a wind </b></div> <bR> <div> <B> </b></div> <div> <B>what if a much of a which of a wind</b></div> <div> <B>gives the truth to summer's lie;</b></div> <div> <B>bloodies with dizzying leaves the sun</b></div> <div> <B>and yanks immortal stars awry?</b></div> <div> <B>Blow king to beggar and queen to seem</b></div> <div> <B>(blow friend to fiend: blow space to time)</b></div> <div> <B>-when skies are hanged and oceans drowned,</b></div> <div> <B>the single secret will still be man </b></div> <bR> <div> <B>what if a keen of a lean wind flays</b></div> <div> <B>screaming hills with sleet and snow:</b></div> <div> <B>strangles valleys by ropes of thing</b></div> <div> <B>and stifles forests in white ago?</b></div> <div> <B>Blow hope to terror; blow seeing to blind</b></div> <div> <B>(blow pity to envy and soul to mind)</b></div> <div> <B>-whose hearts are mountains, roots are trees,</b></div> <div> <B>it's they shall cry hello to the spring </b></div> <bR> <div> <B>what if a dawn of a doom of a dream</b></div> <div> <B>bites this universe in two,</b></div> <div> <B>peels forever out of his grave</b></div> <div> <B>and sprinkles nowhere with me and you?</b></div> <div> <B>Blow soon to never and never to twice</b></div> <div> <B>(blow life to isn't:blow death to was)</b></div> <div> <B>-all nothing's only our hugest home;</b></div> <div> <B>the most who die, the more we live </b></div> <bR> <div> <B>-----------------------------------------------------------------------</b></div> <bR> <div> <B>when serpents bargain </b></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>when serpents bargain for the right to squirm</b></div> <div> <B>and the sun strikes to gain a living wage -</b></div> <div> <B>when thorns regard their roses with alarm</b></div> <div> <B>and rainbows are insured against old age </b></div> <bR> <div> <B>when every thrush may sing no new moon in</b></div> <div> <B>if all screech-owls have not okayed his voice</b></div> <div> <B>- and any wave signs on the dotted line</b></div> <div> <B>or else an ocean is compelled to close </b></div> <bR> <div> <B>when the oak begs permission of the birch</b></div> <div> <B>to make an acorn - valleys accuse their</b></div> <div> <B>mountains of having altitude - and march</b></div> <div> <B>denounces april as a saboteur </b></div> <bR> <div> <B>then we'll believe in that incredible</b></div> <div> <B>unanimal mankind (and not until) </b></div> <bR> <div> <B>---------------------------------------------------------------------</b></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>