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  After the rain has ceased; and still

Will there be robins in the stubble;

  Brown sheep upon the warm green hill。



Spring will not ail nor autumn falter;

  Nothing will know that you are gone;

Saving alone some sullen plough…land

  None but yourself sets foot upon;



Saving the may…weed and the pig…weed

  Nothing will know that you are dead;

These; and perhaps a useless wagon

  Standing beside some tumbled shed。



Oh; there will pass with your great passing

  Little of beauty not your own;

Only the light from common water;

  Only the grace from simple stone!







THE BEAN…STALK



Ho; Giant!  This is I!

I have built me a bean…stalk into your sky!

La;but it's lovely; up so high!



This is how I came;I put

Here my knee; there my foot;

Up and up; from shoot to shoot

And the blessed bean…stalk thinning

Like the mischief all the time;

Till it took me rocking; spinning;

In a dizzy; sunny circle;

Making angles with the root;

Far and out above the cackle

Of the city I was born in;

Till the little dirty city

In the light so sheer and sunny

Shone as dazzling bright and pretty

As the money that you find

In a dream of finding money

What a wind!  What a morning!



Till the tiny; shiny city;

When I shot a glance below;

Shaken with a giddy laughter;

Sick and blissfully afraid;

Was a dew…drop on a blade;

And a pair of moments after

Was the whirling guess I made;

And the wind was like a whip



Cracking past my icy ears;

And my hair stood out behind;

And my eyes were full of tears;

Wide…open and cold;

More tears than they could hold;

The wind was blowing so;

And my teeth were in a row;

Dry and grinning;

And I felt my foot slip;

And I scratched the wind and whined;

And I clutched the stalk and jabbered;

With my eyes shut blind;

What a wind!  What a wind!



Your broad sky; Giant;

Is the shelf of a cupboard;

I make bean…stalks; I'm

A builder; like yourself;

But bean…stalks is my trade;

I couldn't make a shelf;

Don't know how they're made;

Now; a bean…stalk is more pliant

La; what a climb!







WEEDS



White with daisies and red with sorrel

  And empty; empty under the sky!

Life is a quest and love a quarrel

  Here is a place for me to lie。



Daisies spring from damned seeds;

  And this red fire that here I see

Is a worthless crop of crimson weeds;

  Cursed by farmers thriftily。



But here; unhated for an hour;

  The sorrel runs in ragged flame;

The daisy stands; a bastard flower;

  Like flowers that bear an honest name。



And here a while; where no wind brings

  The baying of a pack athirst;

May sleep the sleep of blessed things;

  The blood too bright; the brow accurst。







PASSER MORTUUS EST



Death devours all lovely things;

  Lesbia with her sparrow

Shares the darkness;presently

  Every bed is narrow。



Unremembered as old rain

  Dries the sheer libation;

And the little petulant hand

  Is an annotation。



After all; my erstwhile dear;

  My no longer cherished;

Need we say it was not love;

  Now that love is perished?







PASTORAL



If it were only still!

With far away the shrill

Crying of a cock;

Or the shaken bell

From a cow's throat

Moving through the bushes;

Or the soft shock

Of wizened apples falling

From an old tree

In a forgotten orchard

Upon the hilly rock!



Oh; grey hill;

Where the grazing herd

Licks the purple blossom;

Crops the spiky weed!

Oh; stony pasture;

Where the tall mullein

Stands up so sturdy

On its little seed!







ASSAULT



I



I had forgotten how the frogs must sound

After a year of silence; else I think

I should not so have ventured forth alone

At dusk upon this unfrequented road。





II



I am waylaid by Beauty。  Who will walk

Between me and the crying of the frogs?

Oh; savage Beauty; suffer me to pass;

That am a timid woman; on her way

From one house to another!







TRAVEL



The railroad track is miles away;

  And the day is loud with voices speaking;

Yet there isn't a train goes by all day

  But I hear its whistle shrieking。



All night there isn't a train goes by;

  Though the night is still for sleep and dreaming

But I see its cinders red on the sky;

  And hear its engine steaming。



My heart is warm with the friends I make;

  And better friends I'll not be knowing;

Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take;

  No matter where it's going。







LOW…TIDE



These wet rocks where the tide has been;

  Barnacled white and weeded brown

And slimed beneath to a beautiful green;

  These wet rocks where the tide went down

Will show again when the tide is high

  Faint and perilous; far from shore;

No place to dream; but a place to die;

  The bottom of the sea once more。

There was a child that wandered through

  A giant's empty house all day;

House full of wonderful things and new;

  But no fit place for a child to play。







SONG OF A SECOND APRIL



April this year; not otherwise

  Than April of a year ago;

Is full of whispers; full of sighs;

  Of dazzling mud and dingy snow;

  Hepaticas that pleased you so

Are here again; and butterflies。



There rings a hammering all day;

  And shingles lie about the doors;

In orchards near and far away

  The grey wood…pecker taps and bores;

  The men are merry at their chores;

And children earnest at their play。



The larger streams run still and deep;

  Noisy and swift the small brooks run

Among the mullein stalks the sheep

  Go up the hillside in the sun;

  Pensively;only you are gone;

You that alone I cared to keep。







ROSEMARY



For the sake of some things

  That be now no more

I will strew rushes

  On my chamber…floor;

I will plant bergamot

  At my kitchen…door。



For the sake of dim things

  That were once so plain

I will set a barrel

  Out to catch the rain;

I will hang an iron pot

  On an iron crane。



Many things be dead and gone

  That were brave and gay;

For the sake of these things

  I will learn to say;

〃An it please you; gentle sirs;〃

  〃Alack!〃 and 〃Well…a…day!〃







THE POET AND HIS BOOK



Down; you mongrel; Death!

  Back into your kennel!

I have stolen breath

  In a stalk of fennel!

You shall scratch and you shall whine

  Many a night; and you shall worry

  Many a bone; before you bury

One sweet bone of mine!



When shall I be dead?

  When my flesh is withered;

And above my head

  Yellow pollen gathered

All the empty afternoon?

  When sweet lovers pause and wonder

  Who am I that lie thereunder;

Hidden from the moon?



This my personal death?

  That lungs be failing

To inhale the breath

  Others are exhaling?

This my subtle spirit's end?

  Ah; when the thawed winter splashes

  Over these chance dust and ashes;

Weep not me; my friend!



Me; by no means dead

  In that hour; but surely

When this book; unread;

  Rots to earth obscurely;

And no more to any breast;

  Close against the clamorous swelling

  Of the thing there is no telling;

Are these pages pressed!



When this book is mould;

  And a book of many

Waiting to be sold

  For a casual penny;

In a little open case;

  In a street unclean and cluttered;

  Where a heavy mud is spattered

From the passing drays;



Stranger; pause and look;

  From the dust of ages

Lift this little book;

  Turn the tattered pages;

Read me; do not let me die!

  Search the fading letters; finding

  Steadfast in the broken binding

All that once was I!



When these veins are weeds;

  When these hollowed sockets

Watch the rooty seeds

  Bursting down like rockets;

And surmise the spring again;

  Or; remote in that black cupboard;

  Watch the pink worms writhing upward

At the smell of rain;



Boys and girls that lie

  Whispering in the hedges;

Do not let me die;

  Mix me with your pledges;

Boys and girls that slowly walk

  In the woods; and weep; and quarrel;

  Staring past the pink wild laurel;

Mix me with your talk;



Do not let me die!

  Farmers at your raking;

When the sun is high;

  While the hay is making;

When; along the stubble strewn;

  Withering on their stalks uneaten;

  Strawberries turn dark and sweeten

In the lapse of noon;



Shepherds on the hills;

  In the pastures; drowsing

To the tinkling bells

  Of the brown sheep browsing;

Sailors crying through the storm;

  Scholars at your study; hunters

  Lost amid the whirling winter's

Whiteness uniform;



Men that long for sleep;

  Men that wake and revel;

If an old song leap

  To your senses' level

At such moments; may it be

  Sometimes; though a moment only;

  Some forgotten; quaint and homely

Vehicle of me!



Women at your toil;

  Women at your leisure

Till the kettle boil;

  Snatch of me your pleasure;

Where the broom…straw marks the leaf;

  Women quiet with your weeping

  Lest you wake a workman sleeping;

Mix me with your grief!



Boys and girls that steal

  From the shocking laughter

Of the old; to kneel

  By a dripping rafter

Under the discolored eaves;

  Out of trunks with hingeless covers

  Lifting tales of saints and lovers;

Travelers; goblins; thieves;



Suns that shine by night;

  Mountains made from valleys;

Bear me to the light;

  Flat upon your bellies

By the webby window lie;

  Where the little flies are crawling;

  Read me; margin me with scrawling;

Do not let me die!



Sexton; ply your trade!

  In a shower of gravel

Stamp upon your spade!

  Many a rose shall ravel;

Many a metal wreath shall rust

  In the rain; and I go singing

  Through the lots where you are flinging

Yellow clay on dust!







ALMS

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