Scattering Flowers (George Hitchcock Poems)
It is our best and prayerful judgment that they (air attacks) are a necessary part of the surest road to ...
It is our best and prayerful judgment that they (air attacks) are a necessary part of the surest road to ...
I am an iconoclast. I delightIn upsetting dignified customs; In seeing their frilled petticoatsAnd pantalettes fluttering,Upturned helplessly to heaven.I like ...
First Movement Thin-voiced, nasal pipes Drawing sound out and out Until it is a screeching thread, Sharp and cutting, sharp ...
I'M not a chicken; I have seen Full many a chill September, And though I was a youngster then, That ...
SOME time ago from Rome, in smart array, A younger brother homeward bent his way, Not much improved, as frequently ...
A CERTAIN pious rector (John his name), But little preached, except when vintage came; And then no preparation he required ...
A wind's word, the Hebrew Hallelujah. I wonder they never gave it to a boy (Hal for short) boy with ...
I am like, They tell me, my dear father. Broader brows Howbeit, upon a slenderer undergrowth Of delicate ...
If the year is meditating a suitable gift, I should like it to be the attitude of my great- great- ...
Over stone walls and barns, miles from the black-eyed Susans, over circus tents and moon rockets you are going, going. ...
1. I am thirty this November. You are still small, in your fourth year. We stand watching the yellow leaves ...
One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound ...
Oh darling Eric, why did you For my fond affection sue, And then with surgeons artful aid Transform yourself into ...
Five hours, (and who can do it less in?) By haughty Celia spent in dressing; The goddess from her chamber ...
You've heard of "Casey at The Bat," And "Casey's Tabble Dote"; But now it's time To write a rhyme Of ...
A form, as any taper, fine ; A head like half-pint bason ; Where golden cords, and bands entwine, As ...
Part 1 WHAT dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs, What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things, I sing -- This ...
But anxious cares the pensive nymph oppress'd, And secret passions labour'd in her breast. Not youthful kings in battle seiz'd ...
Pure? What does it mean? The tongues of hell Are dull, dull as the triple Tongues of dull, fat Cerebus ...
I ordered this, clean wood box Square as a chair and almost too heavy to lift. I would say it ...
The artichoke of delicate heart erect in its battle-dress, builds its minimal cupola; keeps stark in its scallop of scales. ...
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