Renascence All I could see from where I stood Interim The room is full of you! -- As I came in The Suicide "Curse thee, Life, I will live with thee no more!
God's World O world, I cannot hold thee close enough!
Afternoon on a Hill I will be the gladdest thing Sorrow Sorrow like a ceaseless rain Tavern I'll keep a little tavern Ashes of Life Love has gone and left me and the days are all alike;The Little Ghost I knew her for a little ghost Kin to Sorrow Am I kin to Sorrow, Three Songs of Shattering I
The first rose on my rose-tree II
Let the little birds sing;III
All the dog-wood blossoms are underneath the tree!
The Shroud Death, I say, my heart is bowed The Dream Love, if I weep it will not matter, Indifference I said, -- for Love was laggard, O, Love was slow to come,.
Witch-Wife She is neither pink nor pale, Blight Hard seeds of hate I planted When the Year Grows Old I cannot but remember Sonnets I
Thou art not lovelier than lilacs, -- no, II
Time does not bring relief; you all have lied III
Mindful of you the sodden earth in spring, IV
Not in this chamber only at my birth --V
If I should learn, in some quite casual way, VI Bluebeard This door you might not open, and you did;Renascence and Other Poems Renascence All I could see from where I stood Was three long mountains and a wood;I turned and looked another way, And saw three islands in a bay.
So with my eyes I traced the line Of the horizon, thin and fine, Straight around till I was come Back to where I'd started from;And all I saw from where I stood Was three long mountains and a wood.
Over these things I could not see;These were the things that bounded me;And I could touch them with my hand, Almost, I thought, from where I stand.
And all at once things seemed so small My breath came short, and scarce at all.
But, sure, the sky is big, I said;Miles and miles above my head;So here upon my back I'll lie And look my fill into the sky.
And so I looked, and, after all, The sky was not so very tall.
The sky, I said, must somewhere stop, And -- sure enough! -- I see the top!
The sky, I thought, is not so grand;I 'most could touch it with my hand!
And reaching up my hand to try, I screamed to feel it touch the sky.