At The Close Of The Canvass (Ambrose Bierce Poems)
'Twas a Venerable Person, whom I met one Sunday morning,All appareled as a prophet of a melancholy sect;And in a ...
'Twas a Venerable Person, whom I met one Sunday morning,All appareled as a prophet of a melancholy sect;And in a ...
Everyone in me is a bird. I am beating all my wings. They wanted to cut you out but they ...
When an apple tree is ready for the world to come and eat, There isn't any structure ...
Out over childhood's borders,Manhood's brave banners unfurled,Weighed down with precepts and ordersA boy has gone into the world.Nobody thinks it ...
The knightly legend on thy shield betrays The moral of thy life; a forecast wise, ...
Some prisoned moon in steep cloud-fastnesses,-Throned queen and thralled; some dying sun whose pyreBlazed with momentous memorable fire;-Who hath not ...
The Day has never understood the Gloaming or the Night;Though sired by one Creative Power, and nursed at Nature's breast;The ...
Two separate divided silences,Which, brought together, would find loving voice;Two glances which together would rejoiceIn love, now lost like stars ...
CXFor many days my heart has stood unchanged; No passing act within love's chronicle Has made my steady pulses ebb ...
I have abhorred the wars and despised the liars, laughed at the frightened And forecast victory; never one moment's doubt. ...
A Brother and Sister O I admire and sorrow! The heart's eye grieves Discovering you, dark tramplers, tyrant years. A ...
Lives waiting huddled in our houses school cut short cancellations Watching the weather forecast another log on the fire snow ...
What was the weather forecast, what did they say? Black ice? Words that harken back, bring me to a moment ...
There was a scar of dark black brown open water, cut through the thin skin of ice the pond lit ...
Deep pools of not so still waters Dark water, ready for freezing Kept from doing so by stiff winds Harbingers ...
"Bright with sunny periods some cloud, occasional showers" says the local TV forecast. It has been persistently precipitating for more ...
Farewell Example, Living Rule farewell; Whose practise shew'd goodness was possible, Who reach'd the full outstretch'd perfection Of Man, of ...
No matter what life you lead the virgin is a lovely number: cheeks as fragile as cigarette paper, arms and ...
CANTO IIII To sinfull house of Pride, Duessa guides the faithfull knight, Where brothers death to wreak Sansjoy doth chalenge ...
In Havana in 1948 I ate fried dog believing it was Peking duck. Later, in Tampa I bunked with an ...
Beaten like an old hound Whimpering by the stove, I complicate the pain That smarts with promised love. The oilstove ...
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