Date: w. 1936, 1938
"The year plunges into night / and the heart plunges / lower than night // to an empty, windswept place / without sun, stars or moon / but a peculiar light as of thought // that spins a dark fire-- / whirling upon itself until, / in the cold, it kindles // to make a man aware of nothing / that he...
preview | full record— Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963)
Date: 1936
"The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews."
preview | full record— Auden, W. H. (1907-1973)
Date: 1936
"Lids closed, the eyes are watchful; the brain / carefully stalks the thought like a tiger / following the accurately-scented prey / through tangled jungle foliage."
preview | full record— Edwin Rolfe (1909-1954)
Date: 1936
"The way / to certainty is charted now, / the sensitive ears alive to sound, / antennae poised for touch, and in the head / all tissue quivering like violin strings."
preview | full record— Edwin Rolfe (1909-1954)
Date: 1937
"Figure on her waxen mind / Images of life refin'd."
preview | full record— Philips, Ambrose (1674-1749)
Date: 1937
"Make [her mind], as a garden gay, / Every bud of thought display, / Till, improving year by year, / The whole culture shall appear,"
preview | full record— Philips, Ambrose (1674-1749)
Date: 1938
"Listen, kids who die-- / Maybe, now, there will be no monument for you / Except in our hearts / Maybe your bodies’ll be lost in a swamp / Or a prison grave, or the potter’s field, / Or the rivers where you’re drowned like Leibknecht / But the day will come-- / Your are sure yourselves that it is...
preview | full record— Hughes, Langston (1902-1967))