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12 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
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Merlin
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Geoffrey Hill
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The Listeners
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Walter de la Mare
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Fire and Ice
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Robert Frost
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Final Love Note
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Clare Rossini
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Tears, Idle Tears
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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Love Calls Us to the Things of this World
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Richard Wilbur
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Now, should they come together to be fed, / They would outstrip the locusts' covering tide.
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From "Merlin"
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And he felt in his heart their strangeness, / their stillness answering his cry, / While his horse moved, cropping the dark turf, / 'Neath the starred and leafy sky;
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From "The Listeners"
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From what I've tasted of desire / I hold with those who favor fire.
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From "Fire and Ice"
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In winter I endured your silences, / My sight tangled in your black network / Which trapped whatever moon was on the rise.
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From "Final Love Note"
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Ah, sad and strange as in dark summer dawns / The earliest pipe of half-awakened birds / To dying ears, when unto dying eyes / The casement slowly grows a glimmering square;
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From "Tears, Idle Tears"
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Now they are flying in place, conveying / The terrible speed of their omnipresence, moving / And staying like white water;
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From "Love Calls us to the Things of this World"
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