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''Lo, Lord, Thou ridest!
Lord, Lord, Thy swifting heart
Naught stayeth, naught now bideth
But's smithereened apart!''
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Hart Crane (1899-1932), U.S. poet. The Hurricane (l. 1-4). . .
Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University...
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''when wine redeems the sight,
Narrowing the mustard scansions of the eyes,''
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Hart Crane (1899-1932), U.S. poet. The Wine Menagerie (l. 1-2). . .
Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford Unive...
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''You who desired so much—in vain to ask—
Yet fed your hunger like an endless task,
Dared dignify the labor, bless the quest—
Achieved that stillness ultimately best,''
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Hart Crane (1899-1932), U.S. poet. To Emily Dickinson (l. 1-4). . .
New Oxford Book of American Verse, The. Richard Ellmann, ed. (1976) Oxford Uni...
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''The bottom of the sea is cruel.''
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Hart Crane (1899-1932), U.S. poet. Voyages. . .
Norton Anthology of American Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Nina Baym and others, eds. (2d ed., 1985...
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''O brilliant kids, frisk with your dog,
Fondle your shells and sticks, bleached
By time and the elements; but there is a line
You must not cross''
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Hart Crane (1899-1932), U.S. poet. Voyages. . .
Norton Anthology of American Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Nina Baym and others, eds. (2d ed., 1985...
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''The imaged word, it is that holds
Hushed willows anchored in its glow.
It is the unbetrayable reply
Whose accent no farewell can know.''
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Hart Crane (1899-1932), U.S. poet. Voyages. . .
New Oxford Book of American Verse, The. Richard Ellmann, ed. (1976) Oxford University Press.
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Bind us in time, O seasons clear, and awe.
O minstrel galleons of Carib fire,
Bequeath us to no earthly shore until
Is answered in the vortex of our grave
The seal's wide spindrift...
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Hart Crane (1899-1932), U.S. poet. Voyages. . .
Norton Anthology of American Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Nina Baym and others, eds. (2d ed., 1985...
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''Creation's blithe and petaled word
To the lounged goddess when she rose
Conceding dialogue with eyes
That smile unsearchable repose—''
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Hart Crane (1899-1932), U.S. poet. Voyages. . .
New Oxford Book of American Verse, The. Richard Ellmann, ed. (1976) Oxford University Press.
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''And yet this great wink of eternity,''
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Hart Crane (1899-1932), U.S. poet. Voyages. . .
Norton Anthology of American Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Nina Baym and others, eds. (2d ed., 1985...
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''Often beneath the wave, wide from this ledge
The dice of drowned men's bones he saw bequeath
An embassy.''
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Hart Crane (1899-1932), U.S. poet. At Melville's Tomb (l. 1-3). . .
Norton Anthology of American Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Nina Baym and others...
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