
“Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!”
Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God
Translated by Stephen Mitchell
Sonnets to Orpheus (1922)
“Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!”
Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God
Song lyrics, The Millennium Bell (1999)
“Oh Patimkin! Fruit grew in their refrigerator and sporting goods dropped from their trees!”
Goodbye, Columbus (1959)
“Oh leave this barren spot to me!
Spare, woodman, spare the beechen tree!”
The Beech Tree's Petition http://oldpoetry.com/opoem/41515, st. 1
“Oh for a seat in some poetic nook,
Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook!”
Politics and Poetics
“Oh, oh, oh
You're changing your heart
Oh, oh, oh
You know who you are.”
"1 2 3 4" (written with Sally Seltmann)
The Reminder (2007)
Redwood Tree
Song lyrics, Saint Dominic's Preview (1972)
“Oh what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!”
The Emperor of the Moon, Act I, sc. i (1687).
Song lyrics, Death is Not the End