LET a joy keep you. Reach out your hands And take it when it runs by, As the Apache dancer Clutches his woman. I have seen them Live long and laugh loud, Sent on singing, singing, Smashed to the heart Under the ribs With a terrible love. Joy always, Joy everywhere -- Let joy kill you! Keep away from the little deaths. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE PITY OF THE LEAVES by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON THE MASQUERADE by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN THE COLLEGE GARDEN; IN 1917 by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES THE OLD PATHWAY by NELLE J. COLBERT EARTH TO EARTH by JOHN DAVIDSON |