98
love our so right
is,all(each thing
most lovely)sweet
things cannot spring
but we be they’ll
some or if where
shall breathe a new
(silverly rare
goldenly so)
moon,she is you
nothing may,quite
your my(my your
and)self without,
completely dare
be beautiful
one if should sing
(at yes of day)
younger than young
bird first for joy,
he’s i he’s i
99
now all the fingers of this tree(darling)have
hands,and all the hands have people;and
more each particular person is(my love)
alive than every world can understand
and now you are and i am now and we’re
a mystery which will never happen again,
a miracle which has never happened before—
and shining this our now must come to then
our then shall be some darkness during which
fingers are without hands;and i have no
you:and all trees are(any more than each
leafless)its silent in forevering snow
—but never fear(my own,my beautiful
my blossoming)for also then’s until
100
luminous tendril of celestial wish
(whying diminutive bright deathlessness
to these my not themselves believing eyes
adventuring,enormous nowhere from)
querying affirmation;virginal
immediacy of precision:more
and perfectly more most ethereal
silence through twilight’s mystery made flesh—
dreamslender exquisite white firstful flame
—new moon!as(by the miracle of your
sweet innocence refuted)clumsy some
dull cowardice called a world vanishes,
teach disappearing also me the keen
illimitable secret of begin
INDEX TO FIRST LINES
a clown’s smirk in the skull of a baboon
41
a light Out)
40
a man who had fallen among thieves
28
a politician is an arse upon
87
a pretty a day
71
a salesman is an it that stinks Excuse
86
all ignorance toboggans into know
102
All in green went my love riding
2
anyone lived in a pretty how town
73
as freedom is a breakfastfood
72
Buffalo Bill’s
7
but if a living dance upon dead minds
45
conceive a man, should he have anything
50
darling! because my blood can sing
103
death (having lost) put on his universe
58
except in your
98
flotsam and jetsam
67
hate blows a bubble of despair into
83
here is little Effie’s head
12
here’s a little mouse) and
33
here’s to opening and upward, to leaf and to sap
51
Humanity i love you
18
i like my body when it is with your
16
i say no world
78
i sing of Olaf glad and big
37
i thank You God for most this amazing
114
if a cheerfulest Elephantangelchild should sit
109
if everything happens that can’t be done
106
if i
64
if i have made, my lady, intricate
36
if i love You
43
if there are any heavens my mother will (all by herself) have
39
if (touched by love’s own secret) we, like homing
113
in Just—
5
in spite of everything
34
it may not always be so; and i say
9
Jehovah buried, Satan dead,
53
kind)
59
kumrads die because they’re told)
49
let it go—the
96
little joe gould has lost his teeth and doesn’t know where
48
little tree
17
love is more thicker than forget
82
love is the every only god
81
love our so right
117
love’s function is to fabricate unknowness
57
luminous tendril of celestial wish
119
may i feel said he
47
may my heart always be open to little
65
mr youse needn’t be so spry
23
my father moved through dooms of love
75
my specialty is living said
63
my sweet old etcetera
32
“next to of course god america i
31
no man. if men are gods, but if gods must
92
no time ago
111
nobody loses all the time
21
nothing false and possible is love
97
now all the fingers of this tree (darling) have
118
o by the by
105
O sweet spontaneous
6
o to be in finland
110
of all the blessings which to man
85
(of Ever-Ever Land i speak
61
one’s not half two. It’s two are halves of one:
90
pity this busy monster, manunkind,
89
plato told
88
proud of his scientific attitude
70
rain or hail
94
raise the shade
11
red-rag and pink-flag
69
she being Brand
24
since feeling is first
35
somewhere i have never travelled. gladly beyond
44
sonnet entitled how to run the world)
46
spoke joe to jack
68
Spring is like a perhaps hand
14
stop look &
26
suppose
10
“sweet spring is your
104
take it from me kiddo
19
the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls
8
the great advantage of being alive
115
these children singing in stone a
80
this little bride & groom are
62
this mind made war
54
Thy fingers make early flowers of
1
to start, to hesitate; to stop
112
true lovers in each happening of their hearts
100
voices to voices, lip to lip
29
what a proud dreamhorse pulling (smoothloomingly) through
52
what freedom’s not some under’s mere above
84
what if a much of a which of a wind
91
when faces called flowers float out of the ground
116
when god decided to invent
93
when god lets my body be
4
when serpents bargain for the right to squirm
108
who knows if the moon’s
15
yes is a pleasant country:
101
you shall above all things be glad and young.
66
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