War is Kind and Other Lines

 

I Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind.

 

II "What says the sea, little shell?

 

III To the maiden

 

IV A little ink more or less!

 

V "Have you ever made a just man?"

 

VI I explain the silvered passing of a ship at night,

 

VII "I have heard the sunset song of the birches,

 

VIII Fast rode the knight

 

IX Forth went the candid man

 

X You tell me this is God?

 

XI On the desert

 

XII A newspaper is a collection of half-injustices

 

XIII The wayfarer,

 

XIV A slant of sun on dull brown walls,

 

XV Once a man clambering to the housetops

 

XVI There was a man with tongue of wood

 

XVII The successful man has thrust himself

 

XVIII In the night

 

XIX The chatter of a death-demon from a tree-top

 

XX The impact of a dollar upon the heart

 

XXI A man said to the universe:

 

XXII When the prophet, a complacent fat man,

 

XXIII There was a land where lived no violets.

 

XXIV Ay, workman, make me a dream,

 

XXV Each small gleam was a voice,

 

XXVI The trees in the garden rained flowers.

 

XXVII When a people reach the top of a hill,