The Garden Shukkei-en (Carolyn Forche Poem)
By way of a vanished bridge we cross this river as a cloud of lifted snow would ascend a mountain. ...
By way of a vanished bridge we cross this river as a cloud of lifted snow would ascend a mountain. ...
IN Eastern climes, by means considered new; The Mount's old-man, with terrors would pursue; His large domains howe'er were not ...
To the Almighty on his radiant Throne, Let endless Hallelujas rise! Praise Him, ye wondrous Heights to us unknown, Praise ...
You have obey'd, you WINDS, that must fulfill The Great Disposer's righteous Will; Throughout the Land, unlimited you flew, Nor ...
How gayly is at first begun Our Life's uncertain Race! Whilst yet that sprightly Morning Sun, With which we just ...
I Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. ...
To Despair I ever love where never hope appears, Yet hope draws on my never-hoping care, And my life's hope ...
An Allusion to the Phoenix 'Mongst all the creatures in this spacious round Of the birds' kind, the Phoenix is ...
Over the terminal, the arms and chest of the god brightened by snow. Formerly mercury, formerly silver, surface yellowed by ...
'Twas at the royal feast for Persia won By Philip's warlike son- Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sate ...
Consecrated to the Glorious Memory of His Most Serene and Renowned Highness, Oliver, Late Lord Protector of This Commonwealth, etc. ...
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
Dim, as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers, Is reason to the soul; and ...
You've seen Balloons set -- Haven't You? So stately they ascend -- It is as Swans -- discarded You, For ...
To learn the Transport by the Pain As Blind Men learn the sun! To die of thirst -- suspecting That ...
Such are the inlets of the mind -- His outlets -- would you see Ascend with me the eminence Of ...
My period had come for Prayer -- No other Art -- would do -- My Tactics missed a rudiment -- ...
Fame is the one that does not stay -- Its occupant must die Or out of sight of estimate Ascend ...
On Tiber's banks, Tiber, whose waters glide In slow meanders down to Gaigra's side; And circling all the horrid mountain ...
What thousands never knew the road! What thousands hate it when 'tis known! None but the chosen tribes of God ...
"I will arise and go unto my father" MALKUTH Dark, dark all dark! I cower, I cringe. ...
The mighty sound of forests murmuring In answer to the dread command; The stars that shudder when their king extends ...
"I will arise and go unto my father" MALKUTH Dark, dark all dark! I cower, I cringe. ...
The mighty sound of forests murmuring In answer to the dread command; The stars that shudder when their king extends ...
This is a day of happiness, sweet peace, And heavenly sunshine; upon which conven'd In full assembly fair, once more ...
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
A RETURN TO THE COVER OF THIS BOOK Dear Trout Fishing in America: I met your friend Fritz in Washington ...
I My hair is gray, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have ...
Verse-making was least of my virtues: I viewed with despair Wealth that never yet was but might be--all that verse-making ...
Chorus.-Bonie lassie, will ye go, Will ye go, will ye go, Bonie lassie, will ye go To the birks of ...
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