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Mermaids laughing off their tantrums - Witter Bynner "Apollo Troubadour"

Coral chime from coral steeple - Witter Bynner "Apollo Troubadour"

Intermittent deep-sea bells - Witter Bynner "Apollo Troubadour"

In a house of earth's own granite - Witter Bynner "Apollo Troubadour"

With every twig and twist of Spring - Witter Bynner "Apollo Troubadour"

Filled each leafy vein with dew - Witter Bynner "Apollo Troubadour"

And a shining waterfall rushed over me - Witter Bynner "At the Touch of You"

And I am mirrored like a flight of swallows - Witter Bynner "Beyond a Mountain"

Closed in the elemental tide - Witter Bynner "Beyond a Mountain"

Nurture the root of every land - Witter Bynner "Beyond a Mountain"

In whom death and reaching rains have mingled - Witter Bynner "Beyond a Mountain"

An ocean that is both our souls - Witter Bynner "Beyond a Mountain"

And foreign hills but bruise the heart - Witter Bynner "Foreign Hills"

The straining sails of unimpeded ships - Witter Bynner "Grieve not for Beauty"

Hoops through which to leap upon meanings - Witter Bynner "Horses"

Hailed the purple robe of air - Witter Bynner "The Last Words of Tolstoi"

Who own the mantle of the sky - Witter Bynner "The Last Words of Tolstoi"

Silence alone wears majesty - Witter Bynner "The Last Words of Tolstoi"

There is solitude in seeing you - Witter Bynner "Lightning"

Followed by your company when you are gone - Witter Bynner "Lightning"

Followed by the sight of you when you are gone - Witter Bynner "Lightning"

By seven vineyards on one hill - Witter Bynner "The Mystic"

Uplifted till we touch a star - Witter Bynner "The New World I"

With particular and unkind preference - Witter Bynner "The New World I"

Set a bar to strangers - Witter Bynner "The New World I"

And oceans echoed glories in her ear - Witter Bynner "The New World I"

From all the bitter corners of the earth - Witter Bynner "The New World II"

Consoled by a continent as wide - Witter Bynner "The New World II"

With keen and accurate advance - Witter Bynner "The New World II"

In one mingled soul reside - Witter Bynner "The New World II"

Their unnumbered and forgotten faces - Witter Bynner "The New World II"

No other ship among the stars - Witter Bynner "The New World II"

Held a golden cup and tasted rust - Witter Bynner "The New World III"

Build and share a tenement of stars - Witter Bynner "The New World III"

By tying torches to a wheel - Witter Bynner "The New World IV"

Pitched her purple tents in Rome - Witter Bynner "The New World V"

A rod of fire in her hand - Witter Bynner "The New World V"

All the cunning coil of trade - Witter Bynner "The New World V"

The orbit of this troubled star - Witter Bynner "The New World V"

Taking his high inheritance - Witter Bynner "The New World V"

A deluded wakeful thrush - Witter Bynner "The New World VII"

Opens a thousand windows into one - Witter Bynner "The New World VII"

On a path where thrushes wake - Witter Bynner "The New World VII"

The trees translating unremembered memories - Witter Bynner "The New World VII"

At the end of a corrupting calm - Witter Bynner "The New World VIII"

Birches white before the moon - Witter Bynner "The New World VIII"

That buys pennies from time - Witter Bynner "The New World VIII"

Release from every petty debt - Witter Bynner "The New World IX"

A great impassable gate of tumult - Witter Bynner "The New World IX"

The many whispers before rain - Witter Bynner "The New World IX"

Singing among the oak-leaves - Witter Bynner "The New World IX"

Under the pure sequestering snow - Witter Bynner "Passing Near"

Under the shadow of a thrust - Witter Bynner "Passing Near"

To song and silence blending - Witter Bynner "The Robin"

A sudden comprehending - Witter Bynner "The Robin"

The utmost of his simple art - Witter Bynner "The Robin"

Where I went seven moons ago - Witter Bynner "Romance"

Ask a hawk about his wings - Witter Bynner "Romance"

Ask a tree to be a city - Witter Bynner "Romance"

Ask of me to pause and pity - Witter Bynner "Romance"

I can go without good-bye - Witter Bynner "Romance"

I can come without your leave - Witter Bynner "Romance"

Come to comfort when you grieve - Witter Bynner "Romance"

With every mortal token of our trust - Witter Bynner "Surety"

A memory divines that bodies, buried, yet arise - Witter Bynner "The Swimmer"

Could forget in space his enemies - Witter Bynner "This Man"

Who saw Lincoln stand up before the faces of a city - Witter Bynner "This Man"

Alone even when friend, alone with destiny - Witter Bynner "This Man"

You who saw him facing Manhattan - Witter Bynner "This Man"

Called to be a witness of joy - Witter Bynner "This Man"

Grew pale toward a morning of sun - Witter Bynner "This Man"

The beauty of the sinews of these States - Witter Bynner "This Man"

Shall become the beauty of the sinews of the world - Witter Bynner "This Man"

To commence the comfortable exchange of difference - Witter Bynner "Train-Mates"

A road-bed newly built and clean - Witter Bynner "Train-Mates"

Your fingers hot to cut away the green of brush and flower - Witter Bynner "Train-Mates"

The kind of beauty steel lines ought to lack - Witter Bynner "Train-Mates"

A curious kinship made us choose to stay - Witter Bynner "Train-Mates"

As fair a tribute to the better part - Witter Bynner "Train-Mates"

Because you half-surmise my quarter-mile - Witter Bynner "Train-Mates"

Not behind but leading in our visible estate - Witter Bynner "Train-Mates"

Remove from you all the little vestiges - Witter Bynner "Undressing You"

The wool and the silk and the linen that entwine you - Witter Bynner "Undressing You"

They tear from you your beauty - Witter Bynner "Undressing You"

This veil of lavender and dawn - Witter Bynner "Veils"

Purple noon unwinds in wisdom - Witter Bynner "Veils"

Night circles around me singing - Witter Bynner "Veils"

The very edge and presence of the young moon - Witter Bynner "Veils"

A star whose bite is certain death - Witter Bynner "The Wild Star"

Run from stars till you are out of breath - Witter Bynner "The Wild Star"

Slip among the shadows of a pine - Witter Bynner "The Wild Star"

And hide face down from the sky - Witter Bynner "The Wild Star"

Flushed from a fairy flagon - Witter Bynner "Young Eden"

Letting trouble trundle by - Witter Bynner "Young Eden"

The time for apple hunger - Witter Bynner "Young Eden"

Laden with some dead woman's tears - Witter Bynner "Young Eden"

Leaves no rest to the heart - Witter Bynner "Young Eden"


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