Poems by Stephen Vincent Benet
Campus Sonnets: Return - 1917
... Float through the blue, deep sky in speckless crowds, ...
Snowfall
... And clasped to its cold frail breast Earth sucks in rest like a child ...
Architects
... And his steadfast heart from the gnawing mouse ...
Days Pass: Men Pass
... Oh, we'll grow sleepy, lacking mirth! ...
Difference
... Winds with brass trumpets, puffy-cheeked as jugs, ...
1936
... And the guns rolled, and the tanks, but there was no sound, ...
Minor Litany
... This is for those with the light white scars on the wrists, ...
Old Man Hoppergrass
... When I was young, I slept like stone, ...
King David
... "Does she weep for the child that our sin made perish ...
Memory
... They can have the names and the dates, ...
Dedication: To W. R. B.
... Words are such silly things! too rough, ...
Girl Child
... Were the clean stalk springing ...
