Celestial Squid (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Off in the distance Rising heavenward before me as I draw toward home, late this September afternoon White lines in ...
Off in the distance Rising heavenward before me as I draw toward home, late this September afternoon White lines in ...
A skin of frost on the ground, in the branches, the yellowed fields film of ice on the pond low ...
Two dreams came down to earth one night From the realm of mist and dew; One was a dream of ...
Away down East where I was reared amongst my Yankee kith, There used to live a pretty girl whose name ...
What art thou, SPLEEN, which ev'ry thing dost ape? Thou Proteus to abus'd Mankind, Who never yet thy real Cause ...
It nests in the hollow of my pelvis, I carry it with both hands, as if offering my stomach, as ...
To drive Paul out of any lumber camp All that was needed was to say to him, "How is the ...
Out of the mud two strangers came And caught me splitting wood in the yard, And one of them put ...
I. Soon Of all the springtimes of the world This one is the ugliest Of all of my ways of ...
Bulkeley, Hunt, Willard, Hosmer, Meriam, Flint, Possessed the land which rendered to their toil Hay, corn, roots, hemp, flax, apples, ...
Who gave thee, O Beauty! The keys of this breast, Too credulous lover Of blest and unblest? Say when in ...
I Midwinter spring is its own season Sempiternal though sodden towards sundown, Suspended in time, between pole and tropic. When ...
Memory: I can take my head and strike it on a wall on Cumberland Island Where the night tide came ...
for Allen Here, on the farthest point of the peninsula The winter storm Off the Atlantic shook the schoolhouse. Mrs. ...
WHAT moves that lonely man is not the boom Of waves that break agains the cliff so strong; Nor roar ...
Because she could find no one else to paint a picture of the old family place where she and her ...
Because the road to our house is a back road, meadowlands punctuated by gravel quarry and lumberyard, there are unexpected ...
All human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey: This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, ...
The Birds begun at Four o'clock -- Their period for Dawn -- A Music numerous as space -- But neighboring ...
Of Brussels -- it was not -- Of Kidderminster? Nay -- The Winds did buy it of the Woods -- ...
How the Waters closed above Him We shall never know -- How He stretched His Anguish to us That -- ...
She sweeps with many-colored Brooms -- And leaves the Shreds behind -- Oh Housewife in the Evening West -- Come ...
I The rutted roads are all like iron; skies Are keen and brilliant; only the oak-leaves cling In the bare ...
I Soul, what art thou in the tribes of the sea? LORD, said a flying fish, Below the foundations of ...
To the tune "Courtyard Filled with Fragrance" Fragrant grass beside the pond green shade over the hall a clear cold ...
What scene would I want to be enveloped in more than this one, an ordinary night at the kitchen table, ...
A place of dryad and hamadryad, there are eyes here by the million. Many divert to watch me. Threatened, they ...
Bhaskar Roy Barman Once on an evening in a desolate place far from the madding crowds eternal strife I stood ...
(For Donald Hall) Have you heard about the boy who walked by The black water? I won't say much more. ...
The only thing I miss about Los Angeles is the Hollywood Freeway at midnight, windows down and radio blaring bearing ...
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