Collected Poems 1931-74 (35 page)

• Unblade the brighter passions one by one.
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• Unrevisited perhaps forever
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• Vagina Dentata I love you so,
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• Veronese grey! Here in the Octagon Room
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• Walk upon dreams, and pass behind the book,
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• Waterbirds sailing upon the darkness
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• Waters rebribing a new moon are all
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• We aliens are too greedy. They took their time,
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• We had a heritage that we have lost,
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• We had endured vicissitude and change,
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• We have no more of time nor growing old,
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• We suffer according to the terms we make
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• What would you have me write?
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• When one smile grazed the surface
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• When they brought on the sleeping child
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• Who first wrapped love in a green leaf,
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• Who told you you were it,
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• Wind among prisms all tonight again:
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• Windless plane-trees above Rodini
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• Winter and love are Euclid's properties.
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• With dusk rides up the god-elated night,
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• Wrap your sulky beauty up,
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• Writing this stuff should not have been like
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• Yellow bottles in a barber's door
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• You and who else?
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• You gone, the mirrors all reverted,
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• You have been surely as a great moon.
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• You have so dressed your eyes with love for me
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• ‘You look at this landscape for five years.'
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• You saw them, Sabina? Did you see them?
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• You sleeping child asleep, away
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• You too will pass as other lovers pass.
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• You were that search for the Sovereign Form
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• You who pass the islands will perhaps remember
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• You will have no more beauty in that day
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• Your panic fellowship is everywhere,
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• Your ship will be leaving Penang
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• Zarian was saying: Florence is youth
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First published in 1957
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