Samuel Palmer prepares to etch ” The Lonely Tower “. (Ian Emberson Poem)
I must return to that valley of vision, gather again to me flocks, crescent moon and star; God - let ...
I must return to that valley of vision, gather again to me flocks, crescent moon and star; God - let ...
When it was autumn in Eden and chestnuts held golden leaves against dimming light , Eve touched her toes on ...
In town to sell his fruit, he saw her- Françoise in her summer slacks- turning to him, coming back to ...
I speak to you across cities I speak to you across plains My mouth is upon your pillow Both faces ...
Think me not unkind and rude, That I walk alone in grove and glen; I go to the god of ...
I In my beginning is my end. In succession Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended, Are removed, destroyed, restored, ...
In your mother's apple-orchard, Just a year ago, last spring: Do you remember, Yvonne! The dear trees lavishing Rain of ...
(Comus.) Your hay it is mow'd, and your corn is reap'd; Your barns will be full, and your hovels heap'd: ...
Of all our antic sights and pageantry Which English idiots run in crowds to see, The Polish Medal bears the ...
I LEGEND Long ago Apollo called to Aristæus, youngest of the shepherds, Saying, "I will make you keeper of my ...
Children of the elemental mother, Born upon some lonely island shore Where the wrinkled ripples run and whisper, Where the ...
I IN EXCELSIS Two dwellings, Peace, are thine. One is the mountain-height, Uplifted in the loneliness of light Beyond the ...
I PRELUDE Daughter of Psyche, pledge of that last night When, pierced with pain and bitter-sweet delight, She knew her ...
They tell me thou art rich, my country: gold In glittering flood has poured into thy chest; Thy flocks and ...
Busy old fool, unruly sun, Why dost thou thus, Through windows and through curtains, call on us? Must to thy ...
The Products of my Farm are these Sufficient for my Own And here and there a Benefit Unto a Neighbor's ...
A Solemn thing within the Soul To feel itself get ripe -- And golden hang -- while farther up -- ...
I LORD of the grass and hill, Lord of the rain, White Overlord of will, Master of pain, I who ...
Time out of mind I have stood Fronting the frost and the sun, That the dream of the world might ...
Can we not force from widow'd poetry, Now thou art dead (great Donne) one elegy To crown thy hearse? Why ...
HAIL, sister springs, Parents of silver-footed rills! Ever bubbling things, Thawing crystal, snowy hills! Still spending, never spent; I mean ...
See here an easy feast that knows no wound, That under hunger's teeth will needs be sound; A subtle harvest ...
(Matthew, xiii.3) Ye sons of earth prepare the plough, Break up your fallow ground; The sower is gone forth to ...
You who desired so much--in vain to ask-- Yet fed you hunger like an endless task, Dared dignify the labor, ...
Summer pleasures they are gone like to visions every one And the cloudy days of autumn and of winter cometh ...
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
I made hay while the sun shone. My work sold. Now, if the harvest is over And the world cold, ...
Here among long-discarded cassocks, Damp stools, and half-split open hassocks, Here where the vicar never looks I nibble through old ...
Omaha, Nebraska They do not sleep nights but stand between rows of glowing corn and cabbages grown on acres past ...
Lough, vessel, plough the British main, Seek the free ocean's wider plain; Leave English scenes and English skies, Unbind, dissever ...
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