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Things have a terrible permanence when people die.

For nothing keeps a poet
In his high singing mood
Like unappeasable hunger
For unattainable food.

I think that I shall never scan A tree as lovely as a man ... A tree depicts divinest plan, But God himself lives in a man.

I suppose I passed it a hundred times, But I always stop for a minute. And look at the house, the tragic house, The house with nobody in it.

There is no peace to be taken
With poets who are young,
For they worry about the wars to be fought
and the songs that must be sung.

But only God can make a tree.

The air is like a butterfly
With frail blue wings.
The happy earth looks at the sky
And sings.

There is no place in which to hide when Age comes seeking for his bride.

I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.

Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree

The only reason a road is good as every wanderer knows / Is just because of the homes, the homes, the homes to which one goes

The fairy poet takes a sheet Of moonbeam, silver white; His ink is dew from daisies sweet, His pen a point of light.