Newfoundland (Edwin John Pratt Poems)
Here the tides flow,And here they ebb;Not with that dull, unsinewed tread of watersHeld under bonds to moveAround unpeopled shores-Moon-driven ...
Here the tides flow,And here they ebb;Not with that dull, unsinewed tread of watersHeld under bonds to moveAround unpeopled shores-Moon-driven ...
"DOWN in the bleak December bay The ghostly vessel stands away; Her spars and halyards white with ice, Under the ...
Here in the silence cometh unto me A song that is not mine,With ...
I think I should suit, for I've knowledge minute Of all tickets, time-tables, and trains;All speedings and slowings and comings ...
From sylvan glades and meadows green, From shady haunts and rustic bowers,With fragrance sweet and pious mien, They come — ...
MY sorrow had pierced me through; it throbbed in my heart like a thorn; This way and that I ...
Dogs take new friends abruptly and by smell,Cats' meetings are neat, tactual, caressive.Monkeys exchange their fleas before they speak.Snakes, no ...
When you were reading those tormented linesIn which the heart's resonant flame sends out glowing streamsAnd passion's fatal torrents rear ...
A tall, strapping shot, you, considerate hunter,Phantom with gun at the flood of my soul,Do not destroy me now as ...
Samuel Sewall, in a world of wigs, Flouted opinion in his personal hair; For foppery he gave not any figs, ...
The message, the prophecy, the words of Isaiah not to some ancient people speaking, resonant to our church now Speaking ...
Because I was content with these poor fields, Low open meads, slender and sluggish streams, And found a home in ...
It's too nice a day to read a novel set in England. We're within inches of the perfect distance from ...
Well, as you say, we live for small horizons: We move in crowds, we flow and talk together, Seeing so ...
Dogs take new friends abruptly and by smell, Cats' meetings are neat, tactual, caressive. Monkeys exchange their fleas before they ...
Alone in Sutton with Fynbos my orange cat A long weekend of wind and rain drowning The tumultuous flurry of ...
Oh ye whose hearts are resonant, and ring to War's romance, Hear ye the story of a boy, a peasant ...
I Once, when a boy, I killed a cat. I guess it's just because of that A cat evokes my ...
FLOWER god, god of the spring, beautiful, bountiful, Cold-dyed shield in the sky, lover of versicles, Here I wander in ...
My horse had been lamed in the foot In the rocks at the back of the run, So I camped ...
Undoubtedly he will relent, and turn From his displeasure; in whose look serene, When angry most he seemed and most ...
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