Author: Delmore Schwartz

In the naked bed, in Plato’s cave, Reflected headlights slowly slid the wall, Carpenters hammered under the shaded window, Wind […]

I Christmas Poem for Nancy Noel, Noel We live and we die Between heaven and hell Between the earth and […]

Tiger Christ unsheathed his sword, Threw it down, became a lamb. Swift spat upon the species, but Took two women […]

Faithful to your commandments, o consciousness, o Holy bird of words soaring ever whether to nothingness or to inconceivable fulfillment […]

Old man in the crystal morning after snow, Your throat swathed in a muffler, your bent Figure building the snow […]

(After Rilke) The city floats no longer like a bait To hook the nimble darting summer days. The glazed and […]

At last the air fragrant, the bird’s bubbling whistle Succinct in the unknown unsettled trees: O little Charles, beside the […]

Let me not, ever, to the marriage in Cana Of Galilee admit the slightest sentiment Of doubt about the astonishing […]

Nothing is given which is not taken. Little or nothing is taken which is not freely desired, freely, truly and […]

I looked toward the movie, the common dream, The he and she in close-ups, nearer than life, And I accepted […]

“Trash, trash!” the king my uncle said, “The spirit’s smoke and weak as smoke ascends. “Sit in the sun and […]

“The trumpet is a brilliant instrument.” – Dietrich Buxtehude Come and come forth and come up from the cup of […]

Twenty-eight naked young women bathed by the shore Or near the bank of a woodland lake Twenty-eight girls and all […]

Someone is harshly coughing on the next floor, Sudden excitement catching the flesh of his throat: Who is the sick […]

O Love, dark animal, With your strangeness go Like any freak or clown: Appease tee child in her Because she […]