Now Close the Windows
Now close the windows and hush all the fields:
If the trees must, let them silently toss;
No bird is singing now, and if there is,
Be it my loss.
It will be long ere the marshes resume,
I will be long ere the earliest bird:
So close the windows and not hear the wind,
But see all wind-stirred.





Related poetry:
- Factory Windows are Always Broken FACTORY windows are always broken. Somebody’s always throwing bricks, Somebody’s always heaving cinders, Playing ugly Yahoo tricks. Factory windows are […]...
- Storm Windows People are putting up storm windows now, Or were, this morning, until the heavy rain Drove them indoors. So, coming […]...
- The Windows In these darkened rooms, where I spend Oppresive days, I pace to and fro To find the windows. When a […]...
- San Francisco Night Windows So hangs the hour like fruit fullblown and sweet, Our strict and desperate avatar, Despite that antique westward gulls lament […]...
- When I heard at the Close of the Day WHEN I heard at the close of the day how my name had been receiv’d with plaudits in the capitol, […]...
- A Ballad of Dreamland I hid my heart in a nest of roses, Out of the sun’s way, hidden apart; In a softer bed […]...
- When I Close My Eyes When I close my eyes I cannot reconstruct your face But the three-dimensional solidity or you Bursts through the tissues […]...
- High Windows When I see a couple of kids And guess he’s fucking her and she’s Taking pills or wearing a diaphragm, […]...
- To pile like Thunder to its close To pile like Thunder to its close Then crumble grand away While Everything created hid This would be Poetry Or […]...
- The Opening and the Close The Opening and the Close Of Being, are alike Or differ, if they do, As Bloom upon a Stalk. That […]...
- My life closed twice before its close My life closed twice before its close It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me […]...
- I've a Secret to Tell Thee I’ve a secret to tell thee, but hush! not here Oh! not where the world its vigil keeps: I’ll seek, […]...
- All Ye Joyful Sing all ye joyful, now sing all together! The wind’s in the tree-top, the wind’s in the heather; The stars […]...
- Cambridge, Spring 1937 At last the air fragrant, the bird’s bubbling whistle Succinct in the unknown unsettled trees: O little Charles, beside the […]...
- Hymn To Eros O Eros, silently smiling one, hear me. Let the shadow of thy wings Brush me. Let thy presence Enfold me, […]...
- Rain on the Hill Now on the hill The fitful wind is so still That never a wimpling mist uplifts, Nor a trembling leaf […]...
- A Wind that rose A Wind that rose Though not a Leaf In any Forest stirred But with itself did cold engage Beyond the […]...
- The Island Does the wind sing in your ears at night, in the town, Rattling the windows and doors of the cheap-built […]...
- The Dinkey Bird In an ocean, ‘way out yonder, (As all sapient people know) Is the land of Wonder-Wander, Whither children love to […]...
- Impression – Le Reveillon The sky is laced with fitful red, The circling mists and shadows flee, The dawn is rising from the sea, […]...