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Quite Forsaken

       Forsaken and Forlorn

       Fireflies in the Corn

       Sinners

       Misery

       Winter Dawn

       Why Does She Weep?

       Giorno Dei Morti

       All Souls

       Lady Wife

       Both Sides of the Medal

       Loggerheads

       December Night

       New Year's Eve

       New Year's Night

       Valentine's Night

       Birth Night

       Rabbit Snared in the Night

       Paradise Re-entered

       Spring Morning

       Wedlock

       History

       One Woman to All Women

       People

       Street Lamps

       New Heaven and Earth

       Elysium

       Manifesto

       Autumn Rain

       Frost Flowers

       Craving for Spring

      Foreword

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      These poems should not be considered separately, as so many single pieces. They are intended as an essential story, or history, or confession, unfolding one from the other in organic development, the whole revealing the intrinsic experience of a man during the crisis of manhood, when he marries and comes into himself. The period covered is, roughly, the sixth lustre of a man's life

      Argument

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       After much struggling and loss in love and in the world of man, the protagonist throws in his lot with a woman who is already married. Together they go into another country, she perforce leaving her children behind. The conflict of love and hate goes on between the man and the woman, and between these two and the world around them, till it reaches some sort of conclusion, they transcend into some condition of blessedness

      MOONRISE AND who has seen the moon, who has not seen Her rise from out the chamber of the deep, Flushed and grand and naked, as from the chamber Of finished bridegroom, seen her rise and throw Confession of delight upon the wave, Littering the waves with her own superscription Of bliss, till all her lambent beauty shakes towards us Spread out and known at last, and we are sure That beauty is a thing beyond the grave, That perfect, bright experience never falls To nothingness, and time will dim the moon Sooner than our full consummation here In this odd life will tarnish or pass away.

      Elegy

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      The sun immense and rosy

       Must have sunk and become extinct

       The night you closed your eyes for ever against me.

       Grey days, and wan, dree dawnings

       Since then, with fritter of flowers—

       Day wearies me with its ostentation and fawnings.

       Still, you left me the nights,

       The great dark glittery window,

       The bubble hemming this empty existence with

       lights.

       Still in the vast hollow

       Like a breath in a bubble spinning

       Brushing the stars, goes my soul, that skims the

       bounds like a swallow!

       I can look through

       The film of the bubble night, to where you are.

       Through the film I can almost touch you.

       EASTWOOD

      Nonentity

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      The stars that open and shut

       Fall on my shallow breast

       Like stars on a pool.

       The soft wind, blowing cool

       Laps little crest after crest

       Of ripples across my breast.

       And dark grass under my feet

       Seems to dabble in me

       Like grass in a brook.

       Oh, and it is sweet

       To be all these things, not to be

      

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