From the Roof (Denise Levertov Poem)
This wild night, gathering the washing as if it were flowers animal vines twisting over the line and slapping my ...
This wild night, gathering the washing as if it were flowers animal vines twisting over the line and slapping my ...
What do they think has happened, the old fools, To make them like this? Do they somehow suppose It's more ...
The world is narrow and ways are short, and our lives are dull and slow, For little is new where ...
Man, is the Sea your master? Sea, and is man your slave? - This is the song of brave men ...
Where run your colts at pasture? Where hide your mares to breed? 'Mid bergs about the Ice-cap Or wove Sargasso ...
Oh gallant was our galley from her caren steering-wheel To her figurehead of silver and her beak of hammered steel; ...
1 Let observation with extensive view, 2 Survey mankind, from China to Peru; 3 Remark each anxious toil, each eager ...
A beggar all his life crippled and unclean sitting, begging at the Beautiful Gate unable to enter in Peter having ...
The things in his home the possession that he had collected his accumulated wealth like spoiled grains in the silos ...
June 22, 1611 THE SHALLOP ON HUDSON BAY One sail in sight upon the lonely sea And only one, God ...
He's an old man. Used up and bent, crippled by time and indulgence, he slowly walks along the narrow street. ...
This is the law of the Yukon, and ever she makes it plain: "Send not your foolish and feeble; send ...
A pencil, sir; a penny -- won't you buy? I'm cold and wet and tired, a sorry plight; Don't turn ...
I've made my Will. I don't believe In luxury and wealth; And to those loving ones who grieve My age ...
The bonsai tree in the attractive pot could have grown eighty feet tall on the side of a mountain till ...
And thus the people every year in the valley of humid July did sacrifice themselves to the long green phallic ...
The railway rattled and roared and swung With jolting and bumping trucks. The sun, like a billiard red ball, hung ...
I was attorney for the "Q" And the Indemnity Company which insured The owners of the mine. I pulled the ...
Shoestring Press, Nottingham, 2000. VIII Final concept harbour which has broken there where it crumpled our faces there where ikons ...
Sweet life! how lovely to be here And feel the soft sea-laden breeze Strike my flushed face, the spruce's fair ...
My crippled sense fares bow'd along His uncompanioned way, And wronged by death pays life with wrong And I wake ...
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