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Affable live-oak art stirred artist beautiful-braided and woven bending the blades breadth Caliban sea Clamber the forks dear dark woods dim sweet woods dream duck sails round Dumb woods evermore Expectant is bending fain fair cousin Cloud fastens the fringe gates of sleep Glooms heart heavenly woods Hide thee intricate shades league of marsh-grass leaning low LENOX AND TILDEN lord Sun low-hanging bough marsh is meshed marsh-grass in serial marshes of Glynn million veins monstrous shambling sea multiform boughs myriad-cloven Clamber night northward the shimmering Oh loiter hither passionate shiver Expectant PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR rose-and-silver evening glow rosy and silvery round the bend sand-beach fastens serial shimmers shimmering band shimmers and shades SIDNEY LANIER silvery essences flow Sinuous southward soul southward and sinuous thine thou TILDEN FOUNDATIONS unflecked uttered a bird vines that myriad-cloven waist-high wild duck sails woods and glades woven With intricate ye uttered YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
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Page 15 - The skies Shine scant with one forked galaxy, — The marsh brags ten: looped on his breast they lie. Oh, what if a sound should be made! Oh, what if a bound should be laid To this bow-and-string tension of beauty and silence a-spring, — To the bend of beauty the bow, or the hold of silence the string...
Page 11 - Just to be fellow'd, when that thou hast found No man with room, or grace enough of bound To entertain that New thou tell'st, thou art, — 'Tis here, 'tis here, thou canst unhand thy heart And breathe it free, and breathe it free, By rangy marsh, in lone sea-liberty. The tide's at full: the marsh with flooded streams Glimmers, a limpid labyrinth of dreams.
Page 27 - The worker must pass to his work in the terrible town: But I fear not, nay, and I fear not the thing to be done; I am strong with the strength of my lord the Sun: How dark, how dark soever the race that must needs be run, I am lit with the Sun.
Page 37 - tis free. The artist trembles o'er his plan Where men his Self must see. Who made a song or picture, he Did it, and not another, God nor man.
Page 41 - I'll be. Over the humped and fishy sea, Over the Caliban sea O cloud in the West, like a thought in the heart Of pardon, loose thy wing, and start, And do a grace for me. Over the huge and huddling sea, Over the Caliban sea...