The First Chantey (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
1896 Mine was the woman to me, darkling I found her: Haling her dumb from the camp, held her and ...
1896 Mine was the woman to me, darkling I found her: Haling her dumb from the camp, held her and ...
"O bees, sweet bees!" I said, "that nearest field Is shining white with fragrant immortelles. Fly swiftly there and drain ...
O golden month! How high thy gold is heaped! The yellow birch-leaves shine like bright coins strung On wands; the ...
It was the pleasant season yet, When the stones at cottage doors Dry quickly, while the roads are wet, After ...
King Francis was a hearty king, and loved a royal sport, And one day as his lions fought, sat looking ...
I Jesús, Estrella, Esperanza, Mercy: Sails flashing to the wind like weapons, sharks following the moans the fever and the ...
I came home and found a lion in my room... A ...
For Carl Solomon I I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves ...
The buzz-saw snarled and rattled in the yard And made dust and dropped stove-length sticks of wood, Sweet-scented stuff when ...
Give me truths, For I am weary of the surfaces, And die of inanition. If I knew Only the herbs ...
I Thou who hast made thy dwelling fair With flowers beneath, above with starry lights, And set thine altars everywhere,-- ...
It pleased the Lord of Angels (praise His name!) To hear, one day, report from those who came With pitying ...
She lay as if at play Her life had leaped away -- Intending to return -- But not so soon ...
She sights a Bird -- she chuckles -- She flattens -- then she crawls -- She runs without the look ...
Pass to they Rendezvous of Light, Pangless except for us -- Who slowly for the Mystery Which thou hast leaped ...
Of Death I try to think like this -- The Well in which they lay us Is but the Likeness ...
Rearrange a "Wife's" affection! When they dislocate my Brain! Amputate my freckled Bosom! Make me bearded like a man! Blush, ...
Snow flakes. I counted till they danced so Their slippers leaped the town, And then I took a pencil To ...
All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his ...
The Frost performs its secret ministry, Unhelped by any wind. The owlet's cry Came loud, -and hark, again! loud as ...
I stood musing in a black world, Not knowing where to direct my feet. And I saw the quick stream ...
Fast rode the knight With spurs, hot and reeking, Ever waving an eager sword, "To save my lady!" Fast rode ...
Oh! could I hope the wise and pure in heart Might hear my song without a frown, nor deem My ...
There's a palace in Florence, the world knows well, And a statue watches it from the square, And this story ...
There's a palace in Florence, the world knows well, And a statue watches it from the square, And this story ...
(PETER RONSARD _loquitur_.) ``Heigho!'' yawned one day King Francis, ``Distance all value enhances! ``When a man's busy, why, leisure ``Strikes ...
I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris, and he; I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three; "Good speed!" cried ...
An Old Story I It was roses, roses, all the way, With myrtle mixed in my path like mad. The ...
When voices of children are heard on the green And laughing is heard on the hill, My heart is at ...
I read last Saturday in the redwoods outside of Santa Cruz and I was about 3/4's finished when I heard ...
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