Brooks Haxton Water Poems

  • 1.
    Cattle egrets in the dry grass waded
    like white clerics at the hooves
    of brood cows, heifers, and new calves.

    ...
  • 2.
    Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy
    waterspouts. Psalm 42

    The waterfall in sunlight is God
    ...
  • 3.
    Why art thou cast down, O my soul? Psalm 42

    Down from twilight into dark at noon,
    through darker, down until the black
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Total 3 Water Poems by Brooks Haxton

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William Butler Yeats Poem
The Wild Old Wicked Man
 by William Butler Yeats

Because I am mad about women
I am mad about the hills,'
Said that wild old wicked man
Who travels where God wills.
'Not to die on the straw at home.
Those hands to close these eyes,
That is all I ask, my dear,
From the old man in the skies.
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