The ‘Ole in the Ark (Marriott Edgar Poems)
One evening at dusk as Noah stood on his Ark, Putting green oil in starboard side lamp, His wife came ...
One evening at dusk as Noah stood on his Ark, Putting green oil in starboard side lamp, His wife came ...
Man was made of social earth, Child and brother from his birth; Tethered by a liquid cord Of blood through ...
There is a chimp named Ai who can count to five. There's a poet named Ai whose selected poems Vice ...
When the pods went pop on the broom, green broom, And apples began to be golden-skinn'd, We harbour'd a stag ...
A woman's taking her late-afternoon walk on Chestnut where no sidewalk exists and houses with gravel driveways sit back among ...
STEP me now a bridal measure, Work give way to love and leisure, Hearts be free and hearts be gay ...
Out in the sky the great dark clouds are massing; I look far out into the pregnant night, Where I ...
The Merchant of the Picturesque A Counter has and sales But is within or negative Precisely as the calls -- ...
The Lightning playeth -- all the while -- But when He singeth -- then -- Ourselves are conscious He exist ...
Pigmy seraphs -- gone astray -- Velvet people from Vevay -- Balles from some lost summer day -- Bees exclusive ...
Low at my problem bending, Another problem comes -- Larger than mine -- Serener -- Involving statelier sums. I check ...
In Ebon Box, when years have flown To reverently peer, Wiping away the velvet dust Summers have sprinkled there! To ...
A Prison gets to be a friend -- Between its Ponderous face And Ours -- a Kinsmanship express -- And ...
Before the ice is in the pools -- Before the skaters go, Or any check at nightfall Is tarnished by ...
And you will claim we need more births to keep our population mix in check while nature's truths suggest there ...
I suppose you could call me heartless as a dull anvil clanking in a sodden barn, the damp wood too ...
John Grubby who was short and stout And troubled with religious doubt, Refused about the age of three To sit ...
On Tiber's banks, Tiber, whose waters glide In slow meanders down to Gaigra's side; And circling all the horrid mountain ...
Obscurest night involv'd the sky, Th' Atlantic billows roar'd, When such a destin'd wretch as I, Wash'd headlong from on ...
Dedication Inscribed to a dear Child: in memory of golden summer hours and whispers of a summer sea. Girt with ...
Sometimes the notes are ferocious, skirmishes against the author raging along the borders of every page in tiny black script. ...
Said Statesman A to Statesman Z: "What can we tax that is not paying? We're taxing every blessed thing- Here's ...
It pricks the arms like poison, knowing that some things, once chosen, are yours and that meanwhile the night comes ...
I've known the pleasures of being fired at least eleven times- most notably by Larry who found my snood unsuitable, ...
'The mist is resting on the hill; The smoke is hanging in the air; The very clouds are standing still: ...
Fair was the evening and brightly the sun Was shining on desert and grove, Sweet were the breezes and balmy ...
SIT stilla worda breath may break (As light airs stir a sleeping lake,) The glassy calm that soothes my woes, ...
In the dungeon-crypts, idly did I stray, Reckless of the lives wasting there away; "Draw the ponderous bars! open, Warder ...
"O day! he cannot die When thou so fair art shining! O Sun, in such a glorious sky, So tranquilly ...
Cold in the earth-and the deep snow piled above thee, Far, far removed, cold in the dreary grave! Have I ...
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