Because Even the Word Obstacle is an Obstacle (Alison Luterman Poems)
Try to love everything that gets in your way:the Chinese women in flowered bathing capsmurmuring together in Mandarin, doing leg ...
Try to love everything that gets in your way:the Chinese women in flowered bathing capsmurmuring together in Mandarin, doing leg ...
UPON my mantel-piece they stand, While all its length between them lies; He throws a kiss with graceful hand, She glances back with ...
Lawful wife.There is still some wine left in the chalice,And the plate that's served is nests of the swallows.Since the ...
This male phoenix has returned to his old home,from roaming the four seas searching for his mate.Time was not yet ...
"Ah, me, but it might have been!Was there ever so dismal a fate?" —Quoth the little blue mandarin."Such a maid ...
Misted the flowers weep as light diesMoon of white silk sleeplessly cries.Stilled - Phoenix wings.Touched - Mandarin strings.This song tells ...
Lady Murasaki says:The troubled watersare frozen fast.Under clear heavenmoonlight and shadowebb and flow.Answered by Prince Genji:The memories of long lovegather ...
Evening snow falling,a pair of mandarin duckson an ancient lake.(Masaoka Shiki)
I. UNDER THE TREES.There had been phantoms, pale-remembered shapesOf this and this occasion, sisterlyIn their resemblances, each effigyCrowned with the ...
When I have a house . . . as I sometime may . . .I'll suit my fancy in every ...
In old Japan, by creek and bay,The blue plum-blossoms blow,Where birds with sea-blue plumage gayThrough sea-blue branches go:Dragons are coiling ...
IT should be yours, if I could build The quaint old dwelling I desire, With books and pictures bravely filled ...
Matchless in breeding and beauty,a fine lady has taken refugein this forsaken valley.She is of good family, she says,but her ...
1 A yellow band of light upon the street Pours from an open door, and makes a wide Pathway of ...
The nursery fire burns brightly, crackling in cheerful little explosions and trails of sparks up the back of the chimney. ...
Dear child! how radiant on thy mother's knee, With merry-making eyes and jocund smiles, Thou gazest at the painted tiles, ...
to the memory of my friend SI-YA-U, whose head was cut off in Shanghai A CLAIM Renowned Leonardo's world-famous "La ...
Feast on wine or fast on water And your honour shall stand sure, God Almighty's son and daughter He the ...
1 OVER the western sea, hither from Niphon come, Courteous, the swart-cheek'd two-sworded envoys, Leaning back in their open barouches, ...
Lavender musk rose from the volume I was reading through, The college crest impressed in gold, tooled gold lettering on ...
'Twas the horse thief, Andy Regan, that was hunted like a dog By the troopers of the upper Murray side, ...
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