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                <l>Sits in the warm dark beneath my eyelids.</l>
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                <l>Golden Bird, Golden Bird, my soul,</l>
                <l>When you were a maiden in the evening in the starlight,</l>
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The Sea 1924 University of Nebraska–Lincoln Center for Digital Research in the Humanities
319 Love Library University of Nebraska–Lincoln Lincoln, NE 68588-4100 cdrh@unlnotes.unl.edu
2019

Copyright © 2019 by Anna Crinklaw.

 James Oppenheim 1924 Alfred A Knopf

Anna Crinklaw Transcribed and encoded a poem BEAUTIFUL NOW Golden Bird, Sleepless for warbling, Sits in the warm dark beneath my eyelids. Golden Bird, Golden Bird, my soul, When you were a maiden in the evening in the starlight, And I brushed your lips with adoring, The dark was like light about us, Like gliding shuttles of golden light . . . 5 What could I do, Beautiful, But take you deep in the folds of my ghost Where you sang all night long? O Golden Bird, Sleepless for warbling, You are sitting behind shut eyes in the warm dark. 488

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The Sea 1924 University of Nebraska–Lincoln Center for Digital Research in the Humanities
319 Love Library University of Nebraska–Lincoln Lincoln, NE 68588-4100 cdrh@unlnotes.unl.edu
2019

Copyright © 2019 by Anna Crinklaw.

 James Oppenheim 1924 Alfred A Knopf

Anna Crinklaw Transcribed and encoded a poem BEAUTIFUL NOW Golden Bird, Sleepless for warbling, Sits in the warm dark beneath my eyelids. Golden Bird, Golden Bird, my soul, When you were a maiden in the evening in the starlight, And I brushed your lips with adoring, The dark was like light about us, Like gliding shuttles of golden light . . . What could I do, Beautiful, But take you deep in the folds of my ghost Where you sang all night long? O Golden Bird, Sleepless for warbling, You are sitting behind shut eyes in the warm dark. 488