Poems by Lola Ridge
Star
... Last night I watched a star fall like a great pearl into the sea, ...
Bowery Afternoon
... Mangy life Nosing to the gutter's end&hellip ...
North Wind
... Or hurling the sea backward from the grinning sand ...
For C.
... Who part now on the dock, weighed down by grief ...
Lying
... s roof, Then grass and grackles or, at the end of town ...
To The Others
... Who am a torch blown along the wind, ...
Love Calls Us to the Things of This World
... “Oh, let there be nothing on earth but laundry, ...
Year’s End
... Which laid their fragile cheeks against the stone ...
The Beautiful Changes
... Dry grass to a lake, as the slightest shade of you ...
Looking into History
... Flares in those boughs I know, and hauls the sound ...
A Baroque Wall-Fountain in the Villa Sciarra
... It spills In threads then from the scalloped rim, and makes ...
A Barred Owl
... ” Words, which can make our terrors bravely clear, ...
Advice to a Prophet
... How the dreamt cloud crumbles, the vines are blackened by frost, ...
Ceremony
... cynosure: Then nymph and wood must nod and strive to dream ...
Babel
... Not mere tongues dividing, but soul from soul, ...
