A poet I love to read is Harold Witter Bynner (1881-1968).
Dream is my favorite Bynner poem.
I had left dreaming--
Till there came the look of you
And I could not tell after that,
And the soul of you
And I could not tell,
And at last the touch of you
And I could tell then less than ever,
Though I silvered and fell
As at the very mountain-brim
of dream.
from The Beloved Stranger
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I also enjoy the poem Laurel in The Beloved Stranger.
In the first lines of Laurel, Bynner writes:
I will not call you beautiful again,
Though my throat ache with the silence of refraining
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If this writing appeals to you, you may want to visit one of the Bynner links below.
Enjoy!
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Comments
I read Stephen Dunn all the time. Over coffee. At lunch. At my desk. In bed. In the tub.
I'll add Witter Bynner to my list.
I agree with you about Dunn, and that makes me want to revisit him as well. I also love Billy Collins in the moment.
One of my favorite Dunn lines is from Essay on the Personal:
Because finally the personal
is all that matters,
we spend years describing stones,
chairs, abandoned farmhouses--
until we're ready.
I never knew someone who could make me do that before.
Thank you. I shall forever be in your debt.
D- single-handedly? My pleasure.