There's a cool web of language winds us in,
Retreat from too much joy or too much fear:
We grow sea-green at last and coldly die
In brininess and volubility.
"The Cool Web," lines 9–12, from Poems 1914-1926 (1927).
There's a cool web of language winds us in,
Retreat from too much joy or too much fear:
We grow sea-green at last and coldly die
In brininess and volubility.
"The Cool Web," lines 9–12, from Poems 1914-1926 (1927).