Private Hell, from Setting Sons (1979)
“I won't measure love from the tears that drip from your face.”
Until When We Are Ghosts (2006), Funeral Dress
“Life, a beauty chased by tragic laughter.”
Source: King Cole
“It is not given me to trace
The lovely laughter of that face”
Young Adventure (1918), The Quality of Courage
Context: It is not given me to trace
The lovely laughter of that face,
Like a clear brook most full of light,
Or olives swaying on a height,
So silver they have wings, almost;
Like a great word once known and lost
And meaning all things. Nor her voice
A happy sound where larks rejoice,
Her body, that great loveliness,
The tender fashion of her dress,
I may not paint them.
These I see,
Blazing through all eternity,
A fire-winged sign, a glorious tree!
“With your face comes laughter
And with your touch
And with your touch comes joy.”
"Ra Is A Busy God"
Many Worlds Are Born Tonight (1998)
Context: Even the leaves laugh
'cause they have what I have
Reach from the best tree
So he can see me
And with your face
With your face comes laughter
And with your touch
And with your touch comes joy.
Source: Blackbird Singing: Poems and Lyrics, 1965-1999
The Nasty Bits (2006)
