What Were They Like? (Denise Levertov Poem)
Did the people of Viet Nam use lanterns of stone? Did they hold ceremonies to reverence the opening of buds? ...
Did the people of Viet Nam use lanterns of stone? Did they hold ceremonies to reverence the opening of buds? ...
In those days said Hiawatha, "Lo! how all things fade and perish! From the memory of the old men Pass ...
After so long an absence At last we meet agin: Does the meeting give us pleasure, Or does it give ...
Should you ask me, whence these stories? Whence these legends and traditions, With the odors of the forest With the ...
He lies on his back, the idling smith, A lazy, dreaming fellow is he; The sky is blue, or the ...
The beach was crowded. Pausing now and then, He groped and fiddled doggedly along, His worn face glaring on the ...
Then a hermit, who visited the city once a year, came forth and said, "Speak to us of Pleasure." And ...
Like the children, the blind beggar denied by the crowd, the disciples from reaching the savior May we never distinguish, ...
Farewell, lov'd Youth! since 'twas the Will of Heaven So soon to take, what had so late been giv'n; And ...
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
The Admirations -- and Contempts -- of time -- Show justest -- through an Open Tomb -- The Dying -- ...
The poet Phernazis is composing the important part of his epic poem. How Darius, son of Hystaspes, assumed the kingdom ...
'Tis true, dear Ben, thy just chastising hand Hath fix'd upon the sotted age a brand To their swoll'n pride ...
I was but what you'd brush with your palm, what your leaning brow would hunch to in evening's raven-black hush. ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
BY QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR OF 'WAT TYLER' 'A Daniel come to judgment! ...
Afters eight years, be less dan eight percent, distinguish' friend, of coloured wif de whites in de School, in de ...
I Where the quiet-coloured end of evening smiles Miles and miles On the solitary pastures where our sheep Half-asleep Tinkle ...
Not under foreign skies Nor under foreign wings protected - I shared all this with my own people There, where ...
I. Where the quiet-coloured end of evening smiles, Miles and miles On the solitary pastures where our sheep Half-asleep Tinkle ...
Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels' hierarchies? and even if one of them suddenly pressed ...
In these deep solitudes and awful cells, Where heav'nly-pensive contemplation dwells, And ever-musing melancholy reigns; What means this tumult in ...
NOTHING so true as what you once let fall, "Most Women have no Characters at all." Matter too soft a ...
Part 1 WHAT dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs, What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things, I sing -- This ...
Nolueram, Belinda, tuos violare capillos; Sedjuvat, hoc precibus me tribuisse tuis. (Martial, Epigrams 12.84) What dire offence from am'rous causes ...
Whenever the Presbyterian bell Was rung by itself, I knew it as the Presbyterian bell. But when its sound was ...
Now Morn, her rosy steps in the eastern clime Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl, When Adam waked, so ...
A Masque Presented At Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before The Earl Of Bridgewater, Then President Of Wales. The Persons The ATTENDANT ...
Someone was calling someone; now they've stopped. Beyond the glass the rose vines quiver as in a light wind, but ...
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