NETS TO CATCH THE WIND

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Contents

Beauty
The Eagle and the Mole
Madman's Song
The Prinkin' Leddie
August
The Crooked Stick
Atavism
Wild Peaches
Sanctuary
The Lion and the Lamb
The Church-Bell
A Crowded Trolley Car
Bells in the Rain
Winter Sleep
Village Mystery
Sunset on the Spire
Escape
The Fairy Goldsmith
"Fire and Sleet and Candlelight"
Blood Feud
Sea Lullaby
Nancy
A Proud Lady
The Tortoise in Eternity
Incantation
Silver Filigree
The Falcon
Bronze Trumpets and Sea Water -- On Turning
Spring Pastoral
Velvet Shoes
Valentine

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The first poem:
 

BEAUTY

Say not of Beauty she is good,
Or aught but beautiful,
Or sleek to doves' wings of the wood
Her wild wings of a gull.

Call her not wicked; that word's touch
Consumes her like a curse;
But love her not too much, too much,
For that is even worse.

O, she is neither good nor bad,
But innocent and wild!
Enshrine her and she dies, who had
The hard heart of a child.