Nostalgia (Billy Collins Poem)
Remember the 1340's? We were doing a dance called the Catapult. You always wore brown, the color craze of the ...
Remember the 1340's? We were doing a dance called the Catapult. You always wore brown, the color craze of the ...
There are many that I miss having sent my last one out a car window sparking along the road one ...
I wonder how it all got started, this business about seeing your life flash before your eyes while you drown, ...
This is a day of happiness, sweet peace, And heavenly sunshine; upon which conven'd In full assembly fair, once more ...
Comrades, many a year and day Have fled since that glorious 9th of May When we made the charge at ...
...and when "the future" is uttered, swarms of mice rush out of the Russian language and gnaw a piece of ...
I. THE GARDEN. ABOVE the city hung the moon, Right o'er a plot of ground Where flowers and orchard-trees were ...
Come, walk with me, There's only thee To bless my spirit now - We used to love on winter nights ...
New England. 1 Alas, dear Mother, fairest Queen and best, 2 With honour, wealth, and peace happy and blest, 3 ...
Up from the bronze, I saw Water without a flaw Rush to its rest in air, Reach to its rest, ...
Gods, what a black, fierce day! The clouds were iron, Wrenched to strange, rugged shapes; the red sun winked Over ...
The last pose flickered, failed. The screen's dead white Glared in a sudden flooding of harsh light Stabbing the eyes; ...
The boat ploughed on. Now Alcatraz was past And all the grey waves flamed to red again At the dead ...
Soup should be heralded with a mellow horn, Blowing clear notes of gold against the stars; Strange entrees with a ...
THE PUDDING MASTER OF STANLEY BASIN Tree, snow and rock beginnings, the mountain in back of the lake promised us ...
WORSEWICK Worsewick Hot Springs was nothing fancy. Somebody put some boards across the creek. That was it. The boards dammed ...
Thy cheek is pale with thought, but not from woe, And yet so lovely, that if Mirth could flush Its ...
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
'Twas after dread Pultowa's day, When fortune left the royal Swede - Around a slaughtered army lay, No more to ...
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
BY QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR OF 'WAT TYLER' 'A Daniel come to judgment! ...
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 ...
Would that the structure brave, the manifold music I build, Bidding my organ obey, calling its keys to their work, ...
I Where the quiet-coloured end of evening smiles Miles and miles On the solitary pastures where our sheep Half-asleep Tinkle ...
"O CAM ye here the fight to shun, Or herd the sheep wi' me, man? Or were ye at the ...
The state with the prettiest name, the state that floats in brackish water, held together by mangrave roots that bear ...
There are too many waterfalls here; the crowded streams hurry too rapidly down to the sea, and the pressure of ...
Now, when the moon slid under the cloud And the cold clear dark of starlight fell, He heard in his ...
Over the darkened city, the city of towers, The city of a thousand gates, Over the gleaming terraced roofs, the ...
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