On a Line from Valéry (The Gulf War) (Carolyn Kizer Poem)
The whole green sky is dying.The last tree flares With a great burst of supernatural rose Under a canopy of ...
The whole green sky is dying.The last tree flares With a great burst of supernatural rose Under a canopy of ...
OF all the Poisons that the fruitful Earth E'er yet brought forth, or Monsters she gave Birth, Nought to Mankind ...
1901 Not in the camp his victory lies Or triumph in the market-place, Who is his Nation's sacrifice To turn ...
To draw no envy, Shakespeare, on thy name Am I thus ample to thy book and fame; While I confess ...
Oh all ye, who pass by, whose eyes and mind To worldly things are sharp, but to me blind; To ...
(for matt - 15) in the first seven years you choose your howdah having by then bare inklings of a ...
I What new element before us unborn in nature? Is there a new thing under the Sun? At last inquisitive ...
Under silver wing San Francisco's towers sprouting thru thin gas clouds, Tamalpais black-breasted above Pacific azure Berkeley hills pine-covered below-- ...
There are 16 million shades of grey There is no black There is no white You have to draw your ...
(The Dry Salvages-presumably les trois sauvages-is a small group of rocks, with a beacon, off the N.E. coast of Cape ...
I Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to ...
To the Critic Methinks I see some crooked mimic jeer, And tax my Muse with this fantastic grace, Turning my ...
As in some countries far remote from hence The wretched creature destined to die, Having the judgement due to his ...
He that cannot choose but love, And strives against it still, Never shall my fancy move, For he loves 'gainst ...
I never felt at Home -- Below -- And in the Handsome Skies I shall not feel at Home -- ...
It's a ruling from the field of pain (devoid of antique nave, a judgement process aptly named 'benefit of doubt'); ...
Would but indulgent Fortune send To me a kind, and faithful Friend, One who to Virtue's Laws is true, And ...
A livid sky on London And like the iron steeds that rear A shock of engines halted And I knew ...
What we, when face to face we see The Father of our souls, shall be, John tells us, doth not ...
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
Well my friends are gone and my hair is grey I ache in the places where I used to play ...
The nicest child I ever knew Was Charles Augustus Fortescue. He never lost his cap, or tore His stockings or ...
BY QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR OF 'WAT TYLER' 'A Daniel come to judgment! ...
The vision of Christ that thou dost see Is my vision's greatest enemy. Thine has a great hook nose like ...
Now the ice lays its smooth claws on the sill, The sun looks from the hill Helmed in his winter ...
Sir, Our times are much degenerate from those Which your sweet muse with your fair fortune chose, And as complexions ...
No more of talk where God or Angel guest With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd, To sit indulgent, ...
Undoubtedly he will relent, and turn From his displeasure; in whose look serene, When angry most he seemed and most ...
Mean while the heinous and despiteful act Of Satan, done in Paradise; and how He, in the serpent, had perverted ...
As one who in his journey bates at noon, Though bent on speed; so here the Arch-Angel paused Betwixt the ...
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