There was such idiot minstrelsy in rain, So many clappers going without bells, That these bethous compose a heavenly gong. One voice repeating, one tireless chorister, The phrases of a single phrase, ke-ke, A single text, granite monotony

Bethou me, said sparrow, to the crackled blade, And you, and you, bethou me as you blow, When in my coppice you behold me be.

Eye without lid, mind without any dream - These are of minstrels lacking minstrelsy, Of an earth in which the first leaf is the tale Of leaves, in which the sp…

An unaffected man in a negative light Could not have borne his labor nor have died Sighing that he should leave the banjo's twang.

Here in a little lonely room I am master of earth and sea, And the planets come to me.

How infinitely superior to our physical senses are those of the mind! The spiritual eye sees not only rivers of water but of air. It sees the crystals of the r…

The watchdog's voice that bayed the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.