"How slow the whistle"
Gilbert, Knox, Plath, Dickinson, Levine, McTell, Reinhardt
Jack Gilbert:
Caroline Knox:
Sylvia Plath:
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Emily Dickinson:
I thought the Train / would never come - / How slow the whistle / sang - / I dont believe a / peevish Bird / So whimpered for the / Spring - / I taught my Heart / a hundred times / Precisely what to say - / Provoking Lover, when / you came / It's [
let] Treatise flew away / To hide my strategy / too late / To wiser [grow] be too soon - / For miseries so halcyon
Philip Levine:
Blind Willie McTell, “Travelin’ Blues,” rec. October 30, 1929:
Django Reinhardt, “Mystery Pacific,” rec. April 16, 1937:
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