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449 pages, Hardcover
First published July 1, 1921
Visible, invisible,
a fluctuating charm
an amber-tinctured amethyst
inhabits it, your arm
approaches and it opens
and it closes; you had meant
to catch it and it quivers;
you abandon your intent.
— ‘A Jelly-fish’
‘If you fear that you are
reading an advertisement,
you are. If we can’t be cordial
to these creatures’ fleece,
I think that we deserve to freeze.’
— from ‘The Arctic Fox (or Goat)’
"Man looking into the sea,
taking the view from those who have as much right to it as you have to it yourself,
it is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing,
but you cannot stand in the middle of this;
the sea has nothing to give but a well excavated grave."
"Half Deity
half worm. We all, infant and adult, have
stopped to watch the butterfly, last of the
elves, and learned to spare the wingless worm
that hopefully ascends the tree."
"The mind is an enchanting thing
is an enchanted thing
like the glaze on a
katydid wing"