Man Alone
Louise Bogan It is yourself you seek In a long rage, Scanning through light and darkness Mirrors, the page, Where should reflected beread more
View ArticleLast Hill In A Vista
Louise Bogan Come, let us tell the weeds in ditches How we are poor, who once had riches, And lie out in the sparse and sodden Pastures that the cows have trodden,read more
View ArticleKnowledge
Louise Bogan Now that I know How passion warms little Of flesh in the mould, And treasure is brittle,--I'll lie here and learnread more
View ArticleJuan's Song
Louise Bogan When beauty breaks and falls asunder I feel no grief for it, but wonder. When love, like a frail shell, lies broken, I keep no chip of it for token.read more
View ArticleEpitaph For A Romantic Woman
Louise Bogan She has attained the permanence She dreamed of, where old stones lie sunning. Untended stalks blow over her Even and swift, like young men running.read more
View ArticleChanson Un Peu Naïve
Louise Bogan What body can be ploughed, Sown, and broken yearly? But she would not die, she vowed, But she has, nearly. Sing, heart sing;read more
View ArticleBetrothed
Louise Bogan You have put your two hands upon me, and your mouth, You have said my name as a prayer. Here where trees are planted by the waterread more
View ArticleA Tale
Louise Bogan This youth too long has heard the break Of waters in a land of change. He goes to see what suns can make From soil more indurate and strange.read more
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