‘Love Recognized’ by Robert Penn Warren
There are many things in the world and you
Are one of them.
‘Love Recognized’ by Robert Penn Warren
There are many things in the world and you
Are one of them.
‘In Memory of W.B. Yeats’ by W.H. Auden
He disappeared in the dead of winter
‘Love is Not All’ by Edna St. Vincent Millay.
Love it not all: it is not meat nor drink
‘The Thought-Fox’ from ‘Hawk in the Rain’ (1957).
I imagine this midnight moment’s forest:
‘The Truth the Dead Know’ from ‘All My Pretty Ones’ (1962).
Men kill for this, or for as much.
‘Epilogue’ from ‘Day by Day’ (1977).
Yet why not say what happened?
‘To Juan at the Winter Solstice’ from ‘Poems 1938-1945’ (1946).
There is one story and one story only That will prove worth your telling