The Defeat of Youth And Other Poems

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Droll phenomena!
    POINTS AND LINES Instants in the quiet, small sharp stars, Pierce my spirit with a thrust whose speed Baffles even the grasp of time. Oh that I might reflect them As swiftly, as keenly as they shine. But I am a pool of waters, summer-still, And the stars are mirrored across me; Those stabbing points of the sky Turned to a thread of shaken silver, A long fine thread.
    PANIC The eyes of the portraits on the wall Look at me, follow me, Stare incessantly: I take it their gla
...nce means nothing at all? --Clearly, oh clearly! Nothing at all ...
    Out in the gardens by the lake The sleeping peacocks suddenly wake; Out in the gardens, moonlit and forlorn, Each of them sounds his mournful horn: Shrill peals that waver and crack and break. What can have made the peacocks wake?
    RETURN FROM BUSINESS Evenings in trains, When the little black twittering ghosts Along the brims of cuttings, Against the luminous sky, Interrupt with their hurrying rumour every thought Save that one is young and setting, Headlong westering, And there is no recapture.


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