Part for the Whole
When others run to windows or out of doors
To catch the sunset whole, he is content
With any segment anywhere he sits.
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Come live with me and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove,
That Valleys, groves, hills, and fields, . . .
Past-Lives Therapy
They explained to me the bloody bandages
On the floor in the maternity ward in Rochester, N.Y.,
Cured the backache I acquired bowing to my old master, . . .
Pastoral Dialogue
Remember when you love, from that same hour
Your peace you put into your lover’s power;
From that same hour from him you laws receive, . . .
Peace Lilies
I collect them now, it seems. Like
sea-shells or old
thimbles. One for . . .
The Peace of Wild Things
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, . . .
The People, Yes
Lincoln?
He was a mystery in smoke and flags
Saying yes to the smoke, yes to the flags, . . .
Piano
Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me;
Taking me back down the vista of years, till I see
A child sitting under the piano, in the boom of the tingling strings . . .
The Pilgrim
Who would true Valour see
Let him come hither;
One here will Constant be, . . .
Pity the Beautiful
Pity the beautiful,
the dolls, and the dishes,
the babes with big daddies . . .
