Spring TO what purpose, April, do you return again? Beauty is not enough. You can no longer quiet me with the redness Of little leaves opening stickily. I know what I know. The sun is hot on my neck as I observe The spikes of the crocus. The smell of the earth is good. It is apparent that there is no death. But what does that signify? Not only under ground are the brains of men Eaten by maggots. Life in itself Is nothing, An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs. It is not enough that yearly, down this hill, April Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.

I am all the time talking about you, and bragging, to one person or another. I am like the Ancient Mariner, who had a tale in his heart he must unfold to all. I am always buttonholing somebody and saying, "Someday you must meet my mother."

After all my erstwhile dear, my no longer cherished; Need we say it was not love, just because it perished?

I make bean stalks, I'm A builder, like yourself.

Blessed be Death, that cuts in marble What would have sunk to dust!

To be grown up is to sit at the table with people who have died, who neither listen nor speak.

April comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.