Picture Of A 23-Year-Old Youth Painted By His Friend Of The Same Age, An Amature (Constantine P. Cavafy Poem)
He finished the painting yesterday noon. Now he studies it in detail. He has painted him in a gray unbuttoned ...
He finished the painting yesterday noon. Now he studies it in detail. He has painted him in a gray unbuttoned ...
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 ...
Its mother being tethered near it Poor little Foal of an oppress?d race! I love the languid patience of thy ...
If I should cast off this tattered coat, And go free into the mighty sky; If I should find nothing ...
"Lord, being dark," I said, "I cannot bear The further touch of earth, the scented air; Lord, being dark, forewilled ...
The Landing "Just the place for a Snark!" the Bellman cried, As he landed his crew with care; Supporting each ...
The Bellman's Speech The Bellman himself they all praised to the skies-- Such a carriage, such ease and such grace! ...
Dedication Inscribed to a dear Child: in memory of golden summer hours and whispers of a summer sea. Girt with ...
The way the dog trots out the front door every morning without a hat or an umbrella, without any money ...
I turn around on the gravel and go back to the house for a book, something to read at the ...
Those great sweeps of snow that stop suddenly six feet from the house ... Thoughts that go so far. The ...
She plucked a blossom fair to see; Upon my coat I let her pin it; And thus we stood beneath ...
The only thing I miss about Los Angeles is the Hollywood Freeway at midnight, windows down and radio blaring bearing ...
It's too nice a day to read a novel set in England. We're within inches of the perfect distance from ...
When I see you, who were so wise and cool, Gazing with silly sickness on that fool You've given your ...
Gods, what a black, fierce day! The clouds were iron, Wrenched to strange, rugged shapes; the red sun winked Over ...
The last pose flickered, failed. The screen's dead white Glared in a sudden flooding of harsh light Stabbing the eyes; ...
BY QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR OF 'WAT TYLER' 'A Daniel come to judgment! ...
There's a palace in Florence, the world knows well, And a statue watches it from the square, And this story ...
There's a palace in Florence, the world knows well, And a statue watches it from the square, And this story ...
I. You're my friend: I was the man the Duke spoke to; I helped the Duchess to cast off his ...
I. My heart sank with our Claret-flask, Just now, beneath the heavy sedges That serve this Pond's black face for ...
NO more wine? then we'll push back chairs and talk. A final glass for me, though: cool, i' faith! We ...
I. Oh, what a dawn of day! How the March sun feels like May! All is blue again After last ...
Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat- Found the ...
A Child's Story Hamelin Town's in Brunswick, By famous Hanover city; The river Weser, deep and wide, Washes its wall ...
DEAR SMITH, the slee'st, pawkie thief, That e'er attempted stealth or rief! Ye surely hae some warlock-brief Owre human hearts; ...
O WHEN she cam' ben she bobbed fu' law, O when she cam' ben she bobbed fu' law, And when ...
IN Tarbolton, ye ken, there are proper young men, And proper young lasses and a', man; But ken ye the ...
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