The same embrace (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
We talked with family last night, not mine or yours specifically but ours, the ones we love familiarly. When little ...
We talked with family last night, not mine or yours specifically but ours, the ones we love familiarly. When little ...
Do you mind if I write a few lines for you tonight? I'm fuelled for sure, perhaps a bit ebullient, ...
Were I not a patriot, which of course I am, I would explain just how the term remains a sticking ...
I was schooled well before he died, able at least to feel what others felt when their fathers were deceased. ...
It was your first outing, or more rightly, our first outing with you. We were as proud as new parents ...
The Alexandrians were gathered to see Cleopatra's children, Caesarion, and his little brothers, Alexander and Ptolemy, whom for the first ...
"Alexander son of Philip, and the Greeks except the Lacedaemonians--" We can very well imagine that they were utterly indifferent ...
Low and brown barns, thatched and repatched and tattered, Where I had seven sons until to-day, A little hill of ...
Feast on wine or fast on water And your honour shall stand sure, God Almighty's son and daughter He the ...
Have pity ! show no pity ! Those eyes that send such shivers Into my ...
Have pity ! show no pity ! Those eyes that send such shivers Into my ...
Low was our pretty Cot : our tallest Rose Peep'd at the chamber-window. We could hear At silent noon, and ...
Part I It is an ancient Mariner, And he stoppeth one of three. 'By thy long grey beard and glittering ...
When a people reach the top of a hill, Then does God lean toward them, Shortens tongues and lengthens arms. ...
Why is it that Poetry has never yet been subjected to that process of Dilution which has proved so advantageous ...
I never loved a dear Gazelle-- Nor anything that cost me much: High prices profit those who sell, But why ...
amidst swirling wine and flickers of silver guests quote Dante, Brecht, Kant and each other. I wait in the hall ...
Doors were left open in heaven again: drafts wheeze, clouds wrap their ripped pages around roofs and trees. Like wet ...
Every month or so, Sundays, we walked the line, The limit and the boundary. Past the sweet gum Superb above ...
I open my eyes, yes, it's the house where I was born, Exactly as it was and nothing more. The ...
A full-fledged gun cannot endure The trifling of an amateur; Poor marksmanship its temper spoils And this is why the ...
AMONGST THE HIGHLY PLACED It is considered low to talk about food. The fact is: they have Already eaten. The ...
My young son asks me: Must I learn mathematics? What is the use, I feel like saying. That two pieces ...
Lo, now four other act upon the stage, Childhood and Youth, the Many and Old age: The first son unto ...
Who was cursed with the Sin of Pride, and Became a Boot-Black. Godolphin Horne was Nobly Born; He held the ...
It was the blue & plain ones. I forget all that. My own clouds darkening hung. Besides, it wasn't serious. ...
WHEN Juan sought the subterranean flood, And paid his obolus on the Stygian shore, Charon, the proud and sombre beggar, ...
Morne esprit, autrefois amoureux de la lutte, L'Espoir, dont l'éperon attisait ton ardeur, Ne veut plus t'enfourcher! Couche-toi sans pudeur, ...
Voici venir les temps o? vibrant sur sa tige Chaque fleur s'?vapore ainsi qu'un encensoir; Les sons et les parfums ...
Quand le ciel bas et lourd pèse comme un couvercle Sur l'esprit gémissant en proie aux longs ennuis, Et que ...
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