Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they will not be Coming back to. Votes: 12
The Thin ManI indulge myselfIn rich refusals.Nothing suffices.I hone myself toThis edge. Asleep, IAm a horizon." Votes: 10
Soon the purple dark must bruise Lily and bleeding-heart and rose, And the little Cupid lose Eyes and ears and chin and nose Votes: 8
If he could sleep on it. He would make his bed with white sheets And disappear into the white, Like a man diving, If he could be certain That the light Would not keep him awake, The light that reaches To the bottom. Votes: 4
There is no way to ease the burden. The voyage leads on from harm to harm, A land of others and of silence. Votes: 4
How shall I speak of Doom, and ours in special, But as of something altogether common? Votes: 4
Nostalgias were peeled from it long ago. Votes: 3
The artist will have had his revenge for being made to wait, A revenge not only necessary but right and clever-- Simply to leave him out of the scene forever. Votes: 0