The world is growing gentle, But few know what she owes To the understanding lily And the judgment of the rose..

There is a glory in a great mistake..

The very serpents bite their tails; the bees forget to sting, For a language so celestial setteth up a wondering. And the touch of absent mindedness ….

Once a pallid Vestal Doubted truth in blue; Listed red in ruin, Harried every hue; Barricaded vision, Garbed herself in sighs; Ridiculed the birthmar….

In the darkness, who would answer for the color of a rose, Or the vestments of the May moth and the pilgrimage it goes?.

Across the downs a hummingbird Came dipping through the bowers, He pivoted on emptiness To scrutinize the flowers..

A precious place is Paradise and none may know its worth, But Eden ever longeth for the knicknacks of the earth. The angels grow quite wistful over w….

You cannot choose your battlefield, The Gods do that for you; But you can plant a standard Where a standard never flew..

Great is the rose Infected by the tomb, Yet burgeoning Indifferent to death..

When you return, the youngest of the seers, Released from fetters of ancestral pose, There will be beauty waiting down the years Revisions of the rub….

Oh I'm in love with the janitor's boy, And the janitor's boy loves me; He's going to hunt for a desert isle In our geography..

The starry brocade of the summer night Is linked to us as part of our estate; And every bee that wings its sidelong flight Assurance of a sweeter, fa….

The sun shall shine in ages yet to be, The musing moon illumine pastures dim, And afterwards a new nativity For all who slept the dreamless interim..

Said the tiger to the lily, Said the viper to the rose, Let us marry so our children May attain the double pose. With a feline half a flower With the….

Lo and behold! God made this starry wold, The maggot and the mold; lo and behold! He taught the grass contentment blade by blade, The sanctity of sam….

The sign work of the Orient it runneth up and down; The Talmud stalks from right to left, a rabbi in a gown; The Roman rolls from left to right from ….

Let go the lure The striving to unmake; Behold the truth Whenever heart may ache There is a glory In a great mistake..

The rose has told In one simplicity That never life Relinquishes a bloom But to bestow An ancient confidence..

Great is the rose That challenges the crypt, And quotes milleniums Against the grave..

I linger on the flathouse roof, the moonlight is divine. But my heart is all aflutter like the washing on the line..