
The Indian Serenade http://www.poetry-archive.com/s/the_indian_serenade.html (1819), st. 1
“The Star and the Eye,” p. 46
Circling: 1978-1987 (1993), Sequence: “A Grain”
The Indian Serenade http://www.poetry-archive.com/s/the_indian_serenade.html (1819), st. 1
"Death"
Elements of Physiology (1875)
“Man for his glory
To ancestry flies;
But Woman's bright story
Is told in her eyes.”
Desmond's Song, st. 4
Irish Melodies http://www.musicanet.org/robokopp/moore.html (1807–1834)
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/7cncd10.txt (1849), Wednesday
“People watch with unshocked eyes;
But the old men know when an old man dies.”
"Old Men"
Many Long Years Ago (1945)
Context: People expect old men to die,
They do not really mourn old men.
Old men are different. People look
At them with eyes that wonder when...
People watch with unshocked eyes;
But the old men know when an old man dies.
“Love is blind. Friendship closes its eyes.”
The Lost Star from The Literary Souvenir, 1828
The Vow of the Peacock (1835)
"The Mindfulness of Man", p. 424
Interpretations and Forecasts 1922-1972 (1973)
Context: The relation between psyche and soma, mind and brain, are peculiarly intimate; but, as in marriage, the partners are not inseparable: indeed their divorce was one of the conditions for the mind's independent history and its cumulative achievements.
But the human mind possesses a special advantage over the brain: for once it has created impressive symbols and has stored significant memories, it can transfer its characteristic activities to materials like to stone and paper that outlast the original brain's brief life-span. When the organism dies, the brain dies, too, with all its lifetime accumulations. But the mind reproduces itself by transmitting its symbols to other intermediaries, human and mechanical, than the particular brain that first assembled them.