A Ballad of Footmen (Amy Lowell Poem)
Now what in the name of the sun and the stars Is the meaning of this most unholy of wars? ...
Now what in the name of the sun and the stars Is the meaning of this most unholy of wars? ...
There once was a man whom the gods didn't love, And a disagreeable man was he. He loathed his neighbours, ...
As the night was falling slowly down on city, town and bush, From a slum in Jones's Alley sloped the ...
Rome never looks where she treads. Always her heavy hooves fall On our stomachs, our hearts or our heads; And ...
"Tout aux tavernes et aux filles." Suppose you screeve? or go cheap-jack? Or fake the broads? or fig a nag? ...
The mahogany table-top you smashed Had been the broad plank top Of my mother's heirloom sideboard- Mapped with the scars ...
I let myself in at the kitchen door. "It's you," she said. "I can't get up. Forgive me Not answering ...
Do we reach the sea with clocks In our pockets, with the noise of the sea In the sea, or ...
Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer were a very notorious couple of cats. As knockabout clown, quick-change comedians, tight-rope walkers and acrobats They ...
Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough! It isn't fit for humans now, There isn't grass to graze a cow. ...
"Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thyself." (David, Psalms 50.21) ['Will sprawl, now that the heat ...
"O CAM ye here the fight to shun, Or herd the sheep wi' me, man? Or were ye at the ...
As evening falls, The walls grow luminous and warm, the walls Tremble and glow with the lives within them moving, ...
LONG life, my Lord, an' health be yours, Unskaithed by hunger'd Highland boors; Lord grant me nae duddie, desperate beggar, ...
the history of melancholia includes all of us. me, I writhe in dirty sheets while staring at blue walls and ...
death wants more death, and its webs are full: I remember my father's garage, how child-like I would brush the ...
1 You, once a belle in Shreveport, with henna-colored hair, skin like a peachbud, still have your dresses copied from ...
"Where 'ave you been this week or more, 'Aven't seen you about the war'? Thought perhaps you was at the ...
Just come to my mind My thoughts will scratch out your face Just come into my sight My eyes will ...
You talk of riders on the flat, of nerve and pluck and pace -- Not one in fifty has the ...
Under the spreading deficit, The Fitzroy Smithy stands; The smith, a spendthrift man is he, With too much on his ...
My clumsiest dear, whose hands shipwreck vases, At whose quick touch all glasses chip and ring, Whose palms are bulls ...
Ye sons of Mars, come list to me, And I will relate to ye A great and heroic naval fight, ...
'Twas in the year of 1869, and on the 19th of November, Which the people in Southern Germany will long ...
Look at them standing there in authority The pale-faces, As if it could have any effect any more. Pale-face authority, ...
[How different people and different animals look upon the moon: showing that each creature finds in it his own mood ...
He paid a Swede twelve bits an hour Just to invent a fancy style To spread the celebration paint So ...
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