Poems by Archibald MacLeish
Ars Poetica
... Twig by twig the night-entangled trees,Leaving, as the moon behind the winter leaves, ...
Dr. Sigmund Freud Discovers the Sea Shell
... Is all the world there is! Her faith is perfect!And still he offers the sea shell ...
The End Of The World
... Quite unexpectedly the top blew off:And there, there overhead, there, there hung over ...
You, Andrew Marvell
... he low pale light across that landNor now the long light on the seaAnd here face downward in the sun ...
An Eternity
... Days that I dream will bloom ...
The Too-Late Born
... And with the third turned back and climbed once more ...
The Snowflake Which Is Now And Hence Forever
... But not to last when leap and water are forgotten, ...
Poem in Prose
... Work done.There are always curtains and flowers ...
Two Poems from the War
... To race on some smooth beach the gull's wing:Not these, nor all we've been, nor all we've loved, ...
Baccalaureate
... How worlds are spawned and where the dead gods go,-- ...
Hypocrite Auteur
... Among these Roman heads, these mediaeval towers, ...
Lines For A Prologue
... Once I was waked by the nightingales in the garden ...
De Votre Bonheur Il Ne Reste Que Vos Photos Sipsce
... Since I have never wakened but that smell ...
Ancestral
... I lay Beside my mother on the grass, and sleep ...
The Rock In The Sea
... What certainty, hidden in our hearts before, ...
