The Damp (John Donne Poem)
When I am dead, and doctors know not why, And my friends' curiosity Will have me cut up to survey ...
When I am dead, and doctors know not why, And my friends' curiosity Will have me cut up to survey ...
Rehearsal to Ourselves Of a Withdrawn Delight -- Affords a Bliss like Murder -- Omnipotent -- Acute -- We will ...
The Whole of it came not at once -- 'Twas Murder by degrees -- A Thrust -- and then for ...
It don't sound so terrible -- quite -- as it did -- I run it over -- "Dead", Brain, "Dead." ...
For more than a billion years we've been nearly out of water; sincerely, a need repeatedly exposed in calamitous reports ...
Let them declare Jihad then, let them despair that I will speak the truth as I see it, and where ...
"Form follows function follows form . . . , etc." --Dr. J. Anthony Wadlington Here I am writing my first ...
Hark ! from the battlements of yonder tower The solemn bell has tolled the midnight hour ! Roused from drear ...
I The cloud my bed is tinged with blood and foam. The vault yet blazes with the sun Writhing above ...
I The cloud my bed is tinged with blood and foam. The vault yet blazes with the sun Writhing above ...
Give me back my broken night my mirrored room, my secret life it's lonely here, there's no one left to ...
I THERE is one Mind, one omnipresent Mind, Omnific. His most holy name is Love. Truth of subliming import! with ...
A green and silent spot, amid the hills, A small and silent dell ! O'er stiller place No singing sky-lark ...
The early sun is so pale and shadowy, I could be looking up at a ghost in the shape of ...
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
To be a great musician you must be a man of moods, You have to be, to understand sonatas and ...
Guns! far and near Quick, sudden, angry, They startle the still street, Upturned faces appear, Doors open on darkness, There ...
Indeed I live in the dark ages! A guileless word is an absurdity. A smooth forehead betokens A hard heart. ...
Oh! could I hope the wise and pure in heart Might hear my song without a frown, nor deem My ...
Today I have been happy. All the day I held the memory of you, and wove Its laughter with the ...
WORSEWICK Worsewick Hot Springs was nothing fancy. Somebody put some boards across the creek. That was it. The boards dammed ...
Who was frightened by a Passing Motor, and was brought to Reason "Oh murder! What was that, Papa!" "My child, ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
I My hair is gray, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have ...
LARA. CANTO THE FIRST. I. The Serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain, And slavery half forgets her ...
Full moon. Our Narragansett gales subside and the land is celebrating men of war more or less, less or more. ...
Goodbye, sir, & fare well. You're in the clear. 'Nobody' (Mark says you said) 'is ever found out.' I figure ...
There's a palace in Florence, the world knows well, And a statue watches it from the square, And this story ...
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