But with exquisite breathing you smile, with satisfaction of love, And I touch you again as you tick in the silence and settle in sleep.

More recent editions of his work include The Wild Card: Selected Poems Early and Late (1998) and Selected Poems (2003). In his later work he experimented with more open forms beginning with The Bourgeois Poet (1964) and continuing with White-Haired Lover (1968). The influences of Walt Whitman D.

He was appointed the fifth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1946.