Private Property

A poem by Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963)

All fly–yet who is misanthrope?–

The actual men and things that pass

Jostling, to wither as the grass

So soon: and (be it heaven’s hope,

Or poetry’s kaleidoscope,

Or love or wine, at feast, at mass)

Each owns a paradise of glass

Where never a yearning heliotrope

Pursues the sun’s ascent or slope;

For the sun dreams there, and no time is or was.

Like fauns embossed in our domain,

We look abroad, and our calm eyes

Mark how the goatish gods of pain

Revel; and if by grim surprise

They break into our paradise,

Patient we build its beauty up again.

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Poems in English 

• To Sea by Martin Zakovski by Poetry In English
• To Dorothy by Marvin Bell by Poetry In English
• The Dreadful Has Already Happened by Mark Strand by Poetry In English
• The Dragon and The Unicorn by Mary Etta Metcalf by Poetry In English
• They Thought Her Crazy by Mary Etta Metcalf by Poetry In English
• These Green-Going-to-Yellow by Marvin Bell by Poetry In English
• The Last Wolf by Mary TallMountain by Poetry In English
• The Homeless Man by Mary TallMountain by Poetry In English
• The Story Of Our Lives by Mark Strand by Poetry In English
• Telescope by Mark R Slaughter by Poetry In English
• The Self and the Mulberry by Marvin Bell by Poetry In English
• Sunflowers by Martin Willitts Jr. by Poetry In English
• The Room by Mark Strand by Poetry In English
• Speaking the Language of Deer by Martin Willitts Jr. by Poetry In English
• The River Has Its Memories by Mary Etta Metcalf by Poetry In English
• Some Say by Mark Miller by Poetry In English
• The River by Mark Olynyk by Poetry In English
• So You Say by Mark Strand by Poetry In English
• Slag by Mark Base by Poetry In English
• The Remains by Mark Strand by Poetry In English

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