Poems by Stephen Vincent Benet
Judgment
... Shook those fat corpses from their flabby languor ...
Evening And Morning
... Nod's green wheel of moss turns round, ...
Campus Sonnets: Before An Examination
... The breeze blows cool and there are stars and stars ...
A Minor Poet
... Others with subtle hands may pluck the strings, ...
Alexander VI Dines with the Cardinal of Capua
... Of your possessions, fortunate one! Don't writhe But take these cushions here! ...
Before an Examination
... The breeze blows cool and there are stars and stars ...
Colors
... (For D. M. C.) The little man with the vague beard and guise ...
Dedication
... To W. R. B. And so, to you, who always were ...
Elegy for an Enemy
... God damn the rest of them! Damn them, the flabby, fat, ...
Ghosts of a Lunatic Asylum
... -- Chilly the grave-smell comes from the turned sod -- ...
Going Back to School
... Slumped to the old half-cringe, his hands fell slack ...
Lonely Burial
... Then, sudden as a flame, the black-robed priest, The clotted earth piled roughly up about ...
Love in Twilight
... light wavers and changes about the room, As the three logs crackle and burn with a small still sound ...
May Morning
... Frail flowers by some brown and dew-drenched pool ...
Poor Devil!
... Helpless I stood, befooled, betrayed, accursed, ...
