Poems by William Rose Benet
Mad Blake
... Out of comfort and easy dreaming evermore starting awake, -- ...
The Falconer of God
... my rapturous vision when first I dreamed of you! Yet I fling my soul on high with new endeavor, ...
The Race
... With straight flat backin white shirtwaist and high white stock ...
The Horse Thief
... From the prick of his ears to the flow of his tail he ached in my throat and eyes ...
The Red Country
... Yet is a light growing, for all the black furrows of the red country ...
Gaspara Stampa
... Scattered your words and swept your heart toward France, ...
Information
... He smiled with clicking teeth and said ...
Gray
... "Gray!" Ashes, rats! You cannot, cannot mean it, surely ...
Kites
... Shaped like serpent-dragons and whiskered tigers and other eccentric glories, ...
The South Wind
... And on the branches gnarled and boughs they ought to prune ...
Solid Earth
... Joy is the thing you tame the snake with ...
The Marvelous Munchausen
... Blue tiles, red bricks, the bustling wharves, with color's oriflamme ...
How To Catch Unicorns
... But nobody thoughtthat's all!he's hungry! &emsp ...
His Ally
... "They fight with the wiles of fiends escaping &emsp ...
The Harvest
... The dead leaves are falling with autumn's brown stain ...
