The Drought (Edwin Ford Piper Poems)
The light of noon comes reddened from a skyA-blur with dust; the irritable windBurns on your cheek, and leans against ...
The light of noon comes reddened from a skyA-blur with dust; the irritable windBurns on your cheek, and leans against ...
The meadow-larks rejoice, as the bright sun Drinks up the burdening dew from slender grass, From flower cups, purple, yellow, ...
(_To A. H. R._) Who stood upon that schooner's driven deck Last night as reefed and shuddering she hove Into ...
The men kept to themselves: they were waiting for the swiftness of the last cyclists. The women kept to themselves: ...
It was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea; And the skipper had taken his little daughter, To bear ...
Foundered March 24. 1878 1 The Eurydice-it concerned thee, O Lord: Three hundred souls, O alas! on board, Some asleep ...
A dear old couple my grandparents were, And kind to all dumb things; they saw in Heaven The lamb that ...
Where are the ships I used to know, That came to port on the Fundy tide Half a century ago, ...
I can make out the rigging of a schooner a mile off; I can count the new cones on the ...
From narrow provinces of fish and bread and tea, home of the long tides where the bay leaves the sea ...
1 Adios, Carenage In idle August, while the sea soft, and leaves of brown islands stick to the rim of ...
There are so many islands! As many islands as the stars at night on that branched tree from which meteors ...
Koening knew now there was no one on the river. Entering its brown mouth choking with lilies and curtained with ...
Those villages stricken with the melancholia of Sunday, in all of whose ocher streets one dog is sleeping those volcanoes ...
My love came up from Barnegat, The sea was in his eyes; He trod as softly as a cat And ...
THERE was a child went forth every day; And the first object he look'd upon, that object he became; And ...
First having read the book of myths, and loaded the camera, and checked the edge of the knife-blade, I put ...
A pathetic tale of the sea I will unfold, Enough to make one's blood run cold; Concerning four fishermen cast ...
'Twas on a Sunday morning, and in the year of 1888, The steamer "Saxmundham," laden with coal and coke for ...
'Twas in the year of 1886, and on the 29th of November, Which the surviving crew of the "Samuel Crawford" ...
Dürer would have seen a reason for living in a town like this, with eight stranded whales to look at; ...
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