The Ghetto (Lola Ridge Poems)
ICool, inaccessible airIs floating in velvety blackness shot with steel-blue lights,But no breath stirs the heatLeaning its ponderous bulk upon ...
ICool, inaccessible airIs floating in velvety blackness shot with steel-blue lights,But no breath stirs the heatLeaning its ponderous bulk upon ...
ON the first of spring, walking along the Embankment,Light-footed, light-headed, eager in mind and heart,I found my spirit keyed to ...
A dozen girls' chemisesdrying on a line,floral lace at the breastlike rose windows in a Gothic cathedral.Lord,shield Thou me from ...
Lord, if I had half your brains, I'd write a book:None of your sentimental platitudes,But something real, vital: that should ...
BY a sense of Presence, keenly dear, I, who thought her distant,Knew her near.By an echo that most sweetly woke, I, long ...
Blokes ~ 'ErbDo you know 'Erb? Now, there's a dinkum sport. If football's on your mind, why, 'Erb's the sort ...
The Legend of Love-Sick Lake WHEN you wander alone through the forest And list to the murmuring song,If your heart ...
'Twas what ye'd call a nasty night,An' 'twa''t no time to pick a fight,Th' we struck th' zone;Th' fog wuz ...
Do you know 'Erb? Now, there's a dinkum sport. If football's on your mind, why, 'Erb's the sort To put ...
I woke in the black watches of the night And heard the low intoning of the main, A ...
I'm dead. Officially I'm dead. Their hope is past. How long I stood as missing! Now, at last I'm dead. ...
Pines against the sky, Pluming the purple hill; Pines . . . and I wonder why, Heart, you quicken and ...
On the ragged edge of the world I'll roam, And the home of the wolf shall be my home, And ...
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