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Crickets on a Strike
The foolish queen of fairyland / From her milk-white throne in a lily-bell, / Gave command to her cricket-band
Darling Daughter of Babylon
Too soon you wearied of our tears. / And then you danced with spangled feet, / Leading Belshazzar's chattering court
Drying their Wings
(Moon Poems for the Children/Fairy-tales for the Children) / (What the Carpenter Said) / The moon's a cottage with a door.
Eden in Winter
[Supposed to be chanted to some rude instrument at a modern fireplace] / Chant we the story now / Tho' in a house we sleep;
Epilogue. Under the Blessing of Your Psyche Wings
Though I have found you like a snow-drop pale, / On sunny days have found you weak and still, / Though I have often held your girlish head
Epitaphs for Two Players
I. Edwin Booth / An old actor at the Player's Club told me that Edwin Booth first impersonated Hamlet when a barnstormer in California. There were few theatres, but the hotels were provided with crude assembly rooms for strolling players. / The youth played in the blear hotel.
Euclid
(Moon Poems for the Children/Fairy-tales for the Children) / Old Euclid drew a circle / On a sand-beach long ago.
Factory Windows are always Broken
Factory windows are always broken. / Somebody's always throwing bricks, / Somebody's always heaving cinders,
Foreign Missions in Battle Array
An endless line of splendor, / These troops with heaven for home, / With creeds they go from Scotland,
Galahad, Knight Who Perished
A Poem Dedicated to All Crusaders against the International and Interstate Traffic in Young Girls / Galahad... soldier that perished... ages ago, / Our hearts are breaking with shame, our tears overflow.
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