Poems
THEME/S
Read not with eye alone,
Let the ear read:
Then shall you see the lines
Of rhythmic speed
Gather and curve to form
Bodies of gold—
A glory that can never
To the eye unfold
Unless a hush, intent
With wondering,
Hears that unearthly sweetness
Goldenly ring!
Sight is the surface mind,
Sound the deep heart:
Until you catch in the poet's
Magical art
The throb and thrill and throe.
Of this profound,
The gods of unbearable beauty
Are never found.
Not when the brain goes dreaming,
But when we kiss
A night unknown and the heart
Breaks with blind bliss,
Our tunes are suddenly born
Out of a calm
Vaster than all the world
And in our palm
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Is felt a quenchless fire
And our fingers are flames,
Bright tongues that quiver out
Revealing names
For all they touch on earth,
Names echoing
Secrets aglow behind
Each mortal thing.
Thus do we bear to you
With every word
Thoughts that seem tangible
As soon as heard—
Thoughts that can open eyes
To search within,
Where souls uncrossed by shadow,
Shapes without sin
Await in smiling slumber
The dawn-hour when
Their immortalities
Shall wake in men.
But eyes will never see them
If ears cannot hark
The wind of a mystery
Divinely dark,
The ageless all-creative
Ecstatic Breath
Which blew the rhythm of life
Through chaos and death.
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