John Crowe Ransom Poems

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21.
Grace

WHO is it beams the merriest
At killing a man, the laughing one?
You are the one I nominate,
God of the rivers of Babylon.
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22.
Geometry

My window looks upon a wood
That stands as tangled as it stood
When God was centuries too young
To care how right he worked, or wrong,
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23.
Men

'How many goodly creatures are there here!'
Miranda doted on the sight of seamen,
The very casual adventurers
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24.
April Treason

So he took her as anointed
In the part he had appointed,
She was lips for smiling faintly,
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25.
Wrestling

At last came threshing-time, the manly season.
We kept the thresher thundering by daylight,
And rested all the sweeter after dark,
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26.
Two In August

Two that could not have lived their single lives
As can some husbands and wives
Did something strange: they tensed their vocal cords
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27.
Darkness

WHEN hurrying home on a rainy night
And hearing tree-tops rubbed and tossed,
And seeing never a friendly star
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28.
The Power Of God

If the power of God were mine, and the ample turn,
I never could dwell in my law, which is 'stablished and stern,
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29.
Vaunting Oak

He is a tower unleaning. But how he’ll break
If Heaven assault him with full wind and sleet,
And what uproar tall trees concumbent make!
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30.
Morning

The skies were jaded, while the famous sun
Slack of his office to confute the fogs
Lay sick abed; but I, inured to duty,
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