Table of Contents

TULIPS
EPITHALAMION 1
OF NICOLETTE 6
SONGS
i (thee will i praise between those rivers whose 7
ii when life is quite through with 9
iii Always before your voice my soul 9
iv Thy fingers make early flowers of 11
v All in green went my love riding 12
vi Where’s Madge then, 13
vii Doll’s boy ’s asleep 14
viii cruelly,love 15
ix when god lets my body be 15
PUELLA MEA 16
CHANSON INNOCENTES
i in Just- 24
ii hist whist 25
iii little tree 26
iv why did you go 27
v Tumbling-hair
picker of buttercups
violets 28
ORIENTALE
i i spoke to thee 28
ii my love 29
iii listen 30
iv unto thee i 32
v lean candles hunger in 33
vi the emperor 34
AMORES
i your little voice
Over the wires came leaping 37
ii in the rain- 38
iii there is a 39
iv consider O 40
v as is the sea marvelous 41
vi into the smiting 42
vii if i believe 42
viii the glory is fallen out of 44
ix i like 45
x after five 46
xi O Distinct 47
LA GUERRE
i Humanity i love you 48
ii earth like a tipsy 49
iii the bigness of cannon 50
iv little ladies more 51
v O sweet spontaneous 53
IMPRESSIONS
i Lady of Silence 54
ii the sky a silver 54
iii writhe and 55
iv the hills 56
v stinging 57
vi the
sky 57
was
vii i was considering how 58
viii between green
mountains 59
ix the hours rise up putting off stars and it is 60
x i will wade out
till my thighs are steeped in
burning flowers 61
PORTRAITS
i of my 62
ii being 63
iii as usual i did not find him in cafes,the more
dissolute atmosphere 63
iv the skinny voice 64
v Babylon slim 65
vi the dress was a suspicious madder,importing
the cruelty of roses. 66
vii of evident invisibles 66
viii the 67
ix ta 69
x it’s just like a coffin’s 69
xi between nose-red gross 70
xii i walked the boulevard 71
xiii 5 72
xiv the young 73
xv one April dusk the 75
xvi between the breasts 76
xvii but the other 77
xviii inthe,exquisite; 78
xix the rose 79
xx spring omnipotent goddess thou dost 80
xxi Buffalo Bill’s 81
xxii Cleopatra built 81
xxiii Picasso 85
xxiv conversation with my friend is particularly 86
xxv my mind is 87
xxvi the waddling 88
xxvii her 89
xxviii raise the shade 90
xxix somebody knew Lincoln somebody Xerxes 91
POST IMPRESSIONS
i windows go orange in the slowly. 92
ii beyond the brittle towns asleep 93
iii the moon is hiding in 93
iv riverly is a flower 94
v any man is wonderful 95
vi into the strenuous briefness 95
vii at the head of this street a gasping organ
is waving moth-eaten 96
viii i was sitting in mcsorley’s. outside it
was New York and beautifully snowing. 97
ix at the ferocious phenomenon of 5 o’clock
i find myself gently decompos- 99
x SNO 100
xi i am going to utter a tree,Nobody 101
CHIMNEYS
SONNETS—REALITIES
i the Cambridge ladies who live in
furnished souls 105
ii when i am in Boston, i do not speak. 105
iii goodby Betty,don’t remember me 106
iv ladies and gentlemen this little girl 106
v by god i want above fourteenth 107
vi when you rang at Dick Mid’s Place 108
vii a fragrant sag of fruit distinctly grouped. 108
viii irreproachable ladies firmly lewd 109
ix nearer:breath of my breath:take not thy
tingling 110
x when thou hast taken thy last
applause,and when 110
xi god pity me whom(god distinctly has) 111
xii “kitty”. sixteen,5´1˝,white,prostitute. 111
xiii it started when Bill’s chip let on to 112
xiv she sits dropping on a caret of clenched
arms 113
xv unnoticed woman from whose kind
large flesh 113
xvi twentyseven bums give a prostitute the
once 114
xvii of this wilting wall the colour drub 114
xviii whereas by dark really released,the
modern 115
xix my girl’s tall with hard long eyes 115
xx Dick Mid’s large bluish face without
eyebrows 116
xxi life boosts herself rapidly at me 117
SONNETS—UNREALITIES
i and what were roses. Perfume?for i do 117
ii when unto nights of autumn do
complain 118
iii a connotation of infinity 119
iv Thou in whose swordgreat story shine
the deeds 119
v when my sensational moments are
no more 120
vi god gloats upon Her stunning flesh.
Upon 121
vii O Thou to whom the musical white
spring 121
viii when the proficient poison of sure sleep 122
ix this is the garden:colours come and go, 123
x it is at moments after i have dreamed 123
xi it may not always be so;and i say 124
xii I have seen her a stealthily frail 124
xiii if learned darkness from our searched
world 125
xiv who’s most afraid of death?thou
art of him 125
xv come nothing to my comparable soul 126
xvi when citied day with the sonorous
homes 127
xvii will suddenly trees leap from winter
and will 127
xviii a wind has blown the rain away and
blown 128
SONNETS—ACTUALITIES
i when my love comes to see me it’s 129
ii it is funny,you will be dead some day. 129
iii i have loved,let us see if that’s all. 130
iv the mind is its own beautiful prisoner. 131
v even a pencil has fear to 131
vi let’s live suddenly without thinking 132
vii yours is the music for no instrument 133
viii fabulous against ,a,fathoming jelly 133
ix by little accurate saints thickly which
tread 134
x a thing most new complete fragile
intense, 135
xi autumn is:that between there and here 135
xii my love is building a building 136
xiii perhaps it is to feel strike 136
xiv the ivory performing rose 137
xv my naked lady framed 138
xvi i have found what you are like 138
xvii —G O N splashes-sink 139
xviii my sonnet is A light goes on in 140
xix (the phonograph’s voice like a keen
spider skipping 141
xx you asked me to come:it was raining
a little, 141
xxi (let us tremble)a personal radiance sits 142
xxii utterly and amusingly i am pash 143
xxiii notice the convulsed orange inch of
moon 143
xxiv and this day it was Spring....us 144