History (Robert Lowell Poem)
History has to live with what was here, clutching and close to fumbling all we had-- it is so dull ...
History has to live with what was here, clutching and close to fumbling all we had-- it is so dull ...
AS those who pass the Alps do say, The Rocks which first oppose their way, And so amazing-High do show, ...
A roaring company that festive night; The beast of dialectic dragged his chains, Prowling from chair to chair is the ...
Valour and Innocence Have latterly gone hence To certain death by certain shame attended. Envy--ah! even to tears! -- The ...
1 Let observation with extensive view, 2 Survey mankind, from China to Peru; 3 Remark each anxious toil, each eager ...
stylised tulips - this is what the card says and they have that nineteen-twenties' feel of those bright young things ...
Blandly mother takes him strolling by railroad and by river --he's the son of the absconded hot rod angel-- and ...
A quiet resolve a sense of some closure; but the pain still there our innocence gone Without cheering no joy ...
Into the soil of our doubts sowing seeds of deception in patterns of behavior in the shifting sands of numbers ...
Standing, hiding in the garden the sound of the creator fear in their hearts Aware of their nakedness the death ...
The truth, their sin naked, revealed transparent before God Hiding from their maker knowing what they had done Cast out ...
His piety, his certainty of righteousness a mask, covering his pain, his pride sensing himself at the center more than ...
A king, not of this world being baited, tested, by the emissary, the local ruler, representative of the Emperor Would ...
An anniversary Of a moment (if many hours can be but a moment) When pain brought a common numbing A ...
Three Years But like yesterday Remembering the feelings The steps, actions taken As the nation awoke, realized Vulnerabilities (resolve to ...
DIVERTING in extreme there is a play, Which oft resumes its fascinating sway; Delights the sex, or ugly, fair, or ...
HE surely must be wrong who loving fears; And does not flee when beauty first appears. Ye FAIR, with charms ...
We chanced in passing by that afternoon To catch it in a sort of special picture Among tar-banded ancient cherry ...
La courbe de tes yeux fait le tour de mon coeur, Un rond de danse et de douceur, Auréole du ...
Thou youngest virgin-daughter of the skies, Made in the last promotion of the Blest; Whose palms, new pluck'd from Paradise, ...
To the Pious Memory of the Accomplished Young Lady, Mrs Anne Killigrew, Excellent in the Two Sister-arts of Poesy and ...
Whangaehu waters, hot-spilled from the cauldron of Crater Lake, swirling mud-green from the cup between Tahurangi and Pyramid Peak, sulphurous, ...
Were meetings predestined then ours was intended, great oracles decreed it as fate, and the auguries chattered with sweet benefactors ...
We will make our meek adjustments, Contented with such random consolations As the wind deposits In slithered and too ample ...
Ware, nor of good nor ill, what aim hath act? Without its climax, death, what savour hath Life? an impeccable ...
Ware, nor of good nor ill, what aim hath act? Without its climax, death, what savour hath Life? an impeccable ...
Sense with keenest edge unusèd, Yet unsteel'd by scathing fire; Lovely feet as yet unbruisèd On the ways of dark ...
Whene'er I view those lips of thine, Their hue invites my fervent kiss; Yet, I forego that bliss divine, Alas! ...
LONE on the bleaky hills the straying flocks Shun the fierce storms among the sheltering rocks; Down from the rivulets, ...
O ONCE I lov'd a bonie lass, Ay, and I love her still; And whilst that virtue warms my breast, ...
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