The Bridge of Sighs (Thomas Hood Poem)
One more Unfortunate, Weary of breath, Rashly importunate, Gone to her death! Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care; ...
One more Unfortunate, Weary of breath, Rashly importunate, Gone to her death! Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care; ...
it's 1962 March 28th I'm sitting by the window on the Prague-Berlin train night is falling I never knew I ...
It is December in Wicklow: Alders dripping, birches Inheriting the last light, The ash tree cold to look at. A ...
I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human ...
(for matt - 15) in the first seven years you choose your howdah having by then bare inklings of a ...
When outside the icy rain Comes leaping helter-skelter, Shall I tie my restive brain Snugly under shelter? Shall I make ...
For Carl Solomon I I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves ...
Where to look, where to find more stones for the rows the walk waiting in the yard unfinished lines, longing ...
"The Jordan River is muddy and cold, chills the body but not the soul", or so said our songs in ...
Prate, ye who will, of so-called charms you find across the sea-- The land of stoves and sunshine is good ...
I met a lady from the South who said (You won't believe she said it, but she said it): "None ...
Not only sands and gravels Were once more on their travels, But gulping muddy gallons Great boulders off their balance ...
The Sphynx is drowsy, Her wings are furled, Her ear is heavy, She broods on the world.? "Who'll tell me ...
The Sphinx is drowsy, Her wings are furled: Her ear is heavy, She broods on the world. "Who'll tell me ...
THEY are rattling breakfast plates in basement kitchens, And along the trampled edges of the street I am aware of ...
I THE WINTER evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways. Six o'clock. The burnt-out ends of smoky days. ...
It took several hours. There were spaces in the cookware of which no one was aware, save the poet. The ...
Why is it that Poetry has never yet been subjected to that process of Dilution which has proved so advantageous ...
ONE winter night, at half-past nine, Cold, tired, and cross, and muddy, I had come home, too late to dine, ...
I never loved a dear Gazelle-- Nor anything that cost me much: High prices profit those who sell, But why ...
AN ALPHABET OF FAMOUS GOOPS. Which you 'll Regard with Yells and Whoops. Futile Acumen! For you Yourselves are Doubtless ...
"Oh yes, I went over to Edmonstoun the other day and saw Johnny, mooning around as usual! He will never ...
THE HUNCHBACK TROUT The creek was made narrow by little green trees that grew too close together. The creek was ...
ANOTHER METHOD OF MAKING WALNUT CATSUP And this is a very small cookbook for Trout Fishing in America as if ...
A tiger comes to mind. The twilight here Exalts the vast and busy Library And seems to set the bookshelves ...
I. You're my friend: I was the man the Duke spoke to; I helped the Duchess to cast off his ...
On the unbreathing sides of hills they play, a specklike girl and boy, alone, but near a specklike house. The ...
At four o'clock in the gun-metal blue dark we hear the first crow of the first cock just below the ...
I'M now arrived-thanks to the gods!- Thro' pathways rough and muddy, A certain sign that makin roads Is no this ...
and the sun weilds mercy but like a jet torch carried to high, and the jets whip across its sight ...
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