| The Queen of Elphame -- both lovely and cruel, ugly and kind | |
| she is very pleasant | |
| and will be young |
The Baby-Sitter |
| and old when she |
The Girl Next Door |
| pleases - she makes | |
| any man king whom |
. . . to think poetically -- |
| she pleases and lies |
to resolve speech into its |
| with any she pleases |
original images and rhythms |
| for she loves, only to destroy |
and re-combine these on several levels |
| and destroys only to quicken. |
of thought into a multiple sense. |
The Poet - "His powers were heightened by the spirit of prophecy so that his words crystalized experience into a single poetic jewel; but he was, by the grace of God, the sturdy author and regulator of this achievement."