A Commonplace Day (Thomas Hardy Poem)
The day is turning ghost, And scuttles from the kalendar in fits and furtively, To join the anonymous host Of ...
The day is turning ghost, And scuttles from the kalendar in fits and furtively, To join the anonymous host Of ...
Look at my knees, That island rising from the steamy seas! The candles a tall lightship; my two hands Are ...
Fear might come when you lie at night, Scared of things, that is not in sight. ***** Some fears are ...
Long forgotten memories were preserved on the thin skin on the slides in the trays in the box, crushed years ...
a cup of dark thick amber slides down my throat rich walnut brandy home made cure sure to give a ...
Dew in the morning Burst my slumber, stupor, coma Caught me from numbness, Unseeing eyes Dulled senses Forced sight, perception ...
Jeff's ready watching the action moving straight for him at full speed, fast motion Black brick center of attention sliding ...
I saw her for a split second driving down Canal toward home off to the left almost over my shoulder ...
Old Davis owned a solid mica mountain In Dalton that would someday make his fortune. There'd been some Boston people ...
I In my beginning is my end. In succession Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended, Are removed, destroyed, restored, ...
S'io credesse che mia risposta fosse A persona che mai tornasse al mondo, Questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse. Ma ...
Of all our antic sights and pageantry Which English idiots run in crowds to see, The Polish Medal bears the ...
Dim, as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers, Is reason to the soul; and ...
I know some lonely Houses off the Road A Robber'd like the look of -- Wooden barred, And Windows hanging ...
It seldom snowed they said, and they were nearly right. In all of nine eventful seasons crystal white on average ...
'Tis morning; and the sun, with ruddy orb Ascending, fires th' horizon: while the clouds, That crowd away before the ...
My God, how perfect are Thy ways! But mine polluted are; Sin twines itself about my praise, And slides into ...
The country ever has a lagging Spring, Waiting for May to call its violets forth, And June its roses--showers and ...
A spot of poontang on a five-foot piece, Diminutive, but room enough . . like clay To finger eager on ...
"As certain also of your own poets have said"-- (Acts 17.28) Cleon the poet (from the sprinkled isles, Lily on ...
YON wandering rill that marks the hill, And glances o'er the brae, Sir, Slides by a bower, where mony a ...
Here on the pale beach, in the darkness; With the full moon just to rise; They sit alone, and look ...
She slides over the hot upholstery of her mother's car, this schoolgirl of fifteen who loves humming & swaying with ...
The cigarette-smoke loops and slides above us, Dipping and swirling as the waiter passes; You strike a match and stare ...
Midnight; bells toll, and along the cloud-high towers The golden lights go out . . . The yellow windows darken, ...
Fanfare of northwest wind, a bluejay wind announces autumn, and the equinox rolls back blue bays to a far afternoon. ...
Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea-- call ...
I would like to watch you sleeping, which may not happen. I would like to watch you, sleeping. I would ...
When I was young, I used to Watch behind the curtains As men walked up and down the street. Wino ...
sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you ...
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