How hollow (Ono no Komachi Poems)
How hollowAre tears upon a sleeveIn gemlets;For mine cannot be dammedAs a surging flood! (Ono no Komachi)
How hollowAre tears upon a sleeveIn gemlets;For mine cannot be dammedAs a surging flood! (Ono no Komachi)
I. UNDER THE TREES.There had been phantoms, pale-remembered shapesOf this and this occasion, sisterlyIn their resemblances, each effigyCrowned with the ...
Now lithe and listen, gentles all, Now lithe ye all and harkUnto a ballad I shall sing About Buena Park.Of ...
I. I honour Nature, holding it unjustTo look with jealousy on her designs;With every passing year more fast she twinesAbout ...
"THEY had brought in such sheafs of hair, And flung them all about us there In the loud noonday's heat ...
You had two girls — Baptiste — One is Virginie —Hold hard — Baptiste!Listen to me.The whole drive was jammedIn ...
DOWN-SLIPPING Time, sweet, swift, and shallow stream, Here, like a boulder, lies this afternoon Across your eager flow. So you ...
We spend our lives in learning pilotage,And grow good steersmen when the vessel's crank!Gap-toothed he spake, and with a tottering ...
(For Kenton) An iron hand has stilled the throats That throbbed with loud and rhythmic glee And dammed the flood ...
We were taken from the ore-bed and the mine, We were melted in the furnace and the pit-- We were ...
Er-Heb beyond the Hills of Ao-Safai Bears witness to the truth, and Ao-Safai Hath told the men of Gorukh. Thence ...
Imprimis he was "broke." Thereafter left His Regiment and, later, took to drink; Then, having lost the balance of his ...
It is a pristine page, clean on the blue screen where I compose, I don't expect it to stay that ...
For more than a billion years we've been nearly out of water; sincerely, a need repeatedly exposed in calamitous reports ...
What is Africa to me: Copper sun or scarlet sea, Jungle star or jungle track, Strong bronzed men, or regal ...
WORSEWICK Worsewick Hot Springs was nothing fancy. Somebody put some boards across the creek. That was it. The boards dammed ...
You had two girls -- Baptiste -- One is Virginie -- Hold hard -- Baptiste! Listen to me. The whole ...
"Tuberculosis should not be," The old professor said. "If folks would hearken unto me 'Twould save a million dead. Nay, ...
Old Man Death's a lousy heel who will not play the game: Let Graveyard yawn and doom down crash, he'll ...
'Twas in the year of 1889, and in the month of June, Ten thousand people met with a fearful doom, ...
A Masque Presented At Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before The Earl Of Bridgewater, Then President Of Wales. The Persons The ATTENDANT ...
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