Poems
28.11.2009 / 20.43 pm
 
by Elinor Morton Wylie
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Stripping an almond tree in flower
The wise apothecary's skill
A single drop of lethal power
From perfect sweetness can distill

From bitterness in efflorescence,
With murderous poisons packed therein;
The poet draws pellucid essence
Pure as a drop of metheglin.


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Cold-blooded Creatures

Man, the egregious egoist
(In mystery the twig is bent)
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Bells In The Rain

Sleep falls, with limpid drops of rain,
Upon the steep cliffs of the town.
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The Falcon

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The Jingo And The Minstrel

AN ARGUMENT FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF PEACE AND GOODWILL WITH THE JAPANESE PEOPLE

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Farm Boy After Summer

A seated statue of himself he seems.
A bronze slowness becomes him. Patently
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Variation On A Theme

June 30th, 1919

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Night Is Darkening Around Me, The

The night is darkening round me,
The wild winds coldly blow ;
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On Hearing That Constantinople Was Swallowed Up By An Earthquake

[A Report, though false, at that time generally believed.]

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