The Beach (Weldon Kees Poem)
Squat, unshaven, full of gas, Joseph Samuels, former clerk in four large cities, out of work, waits in the darkened ...
Squat, unshaven, full of gas, Joseph Samuels, former clerk in four large cities, out of work, waits in the darkened ...
Now is the rhymer's honest trade A thing for scornful laughter made. The merchant's sneer, the clerk's disdain, These are ...
There's just no accounting for happiness, or the way it turns up like a prodigal who comes back to the ...
If you wake at midnight, and hear a horse's feet, Don't go drawing back the blind, or looking in the ...
(Mobile Columns of the Boer War) Out o' the wilderness, dusty an' dry (Time, an' 'igh time to be trekkin' ...
I have been reading Pomfret's "Choice" this spring, A pretty kind of--sort of--kind of thing, Not much a verse, and ...
Lord, how couldst thou so much appease Thy wrath for sin, as when man's sight was dim, And could see ...
I In the depths of the Greyhound Terminal sitting dumbly on a baggage truck looking at the sky waiting for ...
At the end of the day that started with a question and an answer from your lips A special moment, ...
Walking to the courthouse to make copies for a pending case no urgent brisk walk for arguments, for the challenge ...
I LATELY vowed to leave the nuns alone, So oft their freaks have in my page been shown. The subject ...
THE change of food enjoyment is to man; In this, t'include the woman is my plan. I cannot guess why ...
Lancaster bore him--such a little town, Such a great man. It doesn't see him often Of late years, though he ...
Thousand minstrels woke within me, "Our music's in the hills; "- Gayest pictures rose to win me, Leopard-colored rills. Up!-If ...
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot "Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et ...
I THAT in heill was and gladness Am trublit now with great sickness And feblit with infirmitie:-- Timor Mortis conturbat ...
I couldn't touch a stop and turn a screw, And set the blooming world a-work for me, Like such as ...
THE PROLOGUE. WHEN folk had laughed all at this nice case Of Absolon and Hendy Nicholas, Diverse folk diversely they ...
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
THE PROLOGUE. When that the Knight had thus his tale told In all the rout was neither young nor old, ...
He thought he saw an Elephant, That practised on a fife: He looked again, and found it was A letter ...
He thought he saw an Elephant That practised on a fife: He looked again, and found it was A letter ...
Come queen of months in company Wi all thy merry minstrelsy The restless cuckoo absent long And twittering swallows chimney ...
Across the wet November night The church is bright with candlelight And waiting Evensong. A single bell with plaintive strokes ...
I am a young executive. No cuffs than mine are cleaner; I have a Slimline brief-case and I use the ...
BY QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR OF 'WAT TYLER' 'A Daniel come to judgment! ...
washed-up, on shore, the old yellow notebook out again I write from the bed as I did last year. will ...
The city purrs, it hums along, the morning hardly risen. A well-dressed drunk smears her finger across a doorman's lips ...
She turned her head on the pillow, and cried once more. And drawing a shaken breath, and closing her eyes, ...
EXPECT na, sir, in this narration, A fleechin, fleth'rin Dedication, To roose you up, an' ca' you guid, An' sprung ...
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