The Sea1924University of Nebraska–LincolnCenter for Digital Research in the Humanities319 Love LibraryUniversity of Nebraska–LincolnLincoln, NE 68588-4100cdrh@unlnotes.unl.edu2019
James Oppenheim1924Alfred A KnopfAnna Crinklaw
Transcribed and encoded a poemBEAUTIFULNOW 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 ghostWhere you sang all night long?O Golden Bird,Sleepless for warbling,You are sitting behind shut eyes in the warm dark.488