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Flame and Shadow



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Memories

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  Places  Old Tunes  "Only in Sleep"  Redbirds  Sunset: St. Louis  The Coin  The Voice

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  Day and Night  Compensation  I Remembered  "Oh You Are Coming"  The Return  Gray Eyes  The Net  The Mystery

In a Hospital

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  Open Windows  The New Moon  Eight O'Clock  Lost Things  Pain  The Broken Field  The Unseen  A Prayer

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  Spring Torrents  "I Know the Stars"  Understanding  Nightfall  "It Is Not a Word"  "My Heart Is Heavy"  The Nights Remember  "Let It Be Forgotten"

The Dark Cup

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  May Day  "Since There Is No Escape"  "The Dreams of My Heart"  "A Little While"  The Garden  The Wine  In a Cuban Garden  "If I Must Go"

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  In Spring, Santa Barbara  White Fog  Arcturus  Moonlight  Morning Song  Gray Fog  Bells  Lovely Chance

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  "There Will Come Soft Rains"  In a Garden  Nahant  Winter Stars  A Boy  Winter Dusk

By the Sea

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  The Unchanging  June Night  "Like Barley Bending"  "Oh Day of Fire and Sun"  "I Thought of You"  On the Dunes  Spray  If Death Is Kind

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  Thoughts  Faces  Evening: New York  Snowfall  The Silent Battle  The Sanctuary  At Sea  Dust  The Long Hill

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  Summer Storm  In the End  "It Will Not Change"  Change  Water Lilies  "Did You Never Know?"  The Treasure  The Storm

Songs For Myself

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  The Tree  At Midnight  Song Making  Alone  Red Maples  Debtor  The Wind in the Hemlock

Flame and Shadow

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Blue Squills

  How many million Aprils came   Before I ever knew  How white a cherry bough could be,   A bed of squills, how blue!

  And many a dancing April   When life is done with me,  Will lift the blue flame of the flower   And the white flame of the tree.

  Oh burn me with your beauty, then,   Oh hurt me, tree and flower,  Lest in the end death try to take   Even this glistening hour.

  O shaken flowers, O shimmering trees,   O sunlit white and blue,  Wound me, that I, through endless sleep,   May bear the scar of you.

Stars

  Alone in the night   On a dark hill  With pines around me   Spicy and still,

  And a heaven full of stars   Over my head,  White and topaz   And misty red;

  Myriads with beating   Hearts of fire  That aeons   Cannot vex or tire;

  Up the dome of heaven   Like a great hill,  I watch them marching   Stately and still,

  And I know that I   Am honored to be  Witness   Of so much majesty.

"What Do I Care?"

  What do I care, in the dreams and the languor of spring,   That my songs do not show me at all?  For they are a fragrance, and I am a flint and a fire,   I am an answer, they are only a call.

  But what do I care, for love will be over so soon,   Let my heart have its say and my mind stand idly by,  For my mind is proud and strong enough to be silent,   It is my heart that makes my songs, not I....