Louise Bogan


Paperback Achievement in American Poetry Book


Men Loved Wholly Beyond Wisdom

Men loved wholly beyond wisdom 
Have the staff without the banner. 
Like a fire in a dry thicket 
Rising within women's eyes 
Is the love men must return. 
Heart, so subtle now, and trembling, 
What a marvel to be wise., 
To love never in this manner! 
To be quiet in the fern 
Like a thing gone dead and still, 
Listening to the prisoned cricket 
Shake its terrible dissembling 
Music in the granite hill.

D. H. Lawrence

 from Pansies THE WHITE HORSE The youth walks up to the white horse, to put its halter on and the horse looks at him in silence. They are s...