What you give me I cheerfully accept When his hour for death had come When I heard at the close of the day how my name had been receiv'd When I heard the learn'd astronomer When I peruse the conquer'd fame of heroes and the victories of mighty generals, I do not envy the generals . PAGE 216 417 102 214 107 When I read the book, the biography famous 14 When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd 255 When the full-grown poet came 416 While behind all firm and erect as ever While not the past forgetting Whispers of heavenly death murmur'd I hear Where the city's ceaseless crowd moves on the livelong day While my wife at my side lies slumbering, and the wars are over long Who are you dusky woman, so ancient hardly human 301 426 248 399 Why reclining, interrogating? why myself and all drowsing With husky-haughty lips, O sea With its cloud of skirmishers in advance Women sit or move to and fro, some old, some young Word over all, beautiful as the sky World take good notice, silver stars fading YEAR of meteors! brooding year Years of the modern! years of the unperform'd Yet, yet, ye downcast hours, I know ye also You felons on trial in courts You lingering sparse leaves of me on winter-nearing boughs MAR 22 1915 |