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Grown Up

Was it for this I uttered prayers, And sobbed and cursed and kicked the stairs, That now, domestic as a plate, I should retire at half-past eight?

Ebb

I know what my heart is like        Since your love died: It is like a hollow ledge Holding a little pool        Left there by the tide,        A little tepid pool, Drying inward from the edge.

Passer Mortuus Est

Death devours all lovely things;   Lesbia with her sparrow Shares the darkness,—presently   Every bed is narrow Unremembered as old rain   Dries the sheer libation, And the little petulant hand   Is an annotation.…

First Fig

My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends— It gives a lovely light!