The Earthy Shields (Basil Bunting Poems)
Lavender and contortedOnly and lavenderOutrageous and veryThis flipper may back and beckon, but it is ...
Lavender and contortedOnly and lavenderOutrageous and veryThis flipper may back and beckon, but it is ...
FIRE-FLY, thou art a pretty, pleasing thing: In evening's dusk, we catch, and thickening night,Now here, now there, by closed ...
Bath The day is fresh-washed and fair, and there is a smell of tulips and narcissus in the air. The ...
While this America settles in the mould of its vulgarity, heavily thickening to empire And protest, only a bubble in ...
I'm mighty glad to see you, Mrs. Curtis, And thank you very kindly for this visit-- Especially now when all ...
It has happened suddenly, by surprise, in an arbor, or while drinking good coffee, after speaking, or before, that I ...
'Whenever I plunge my arm, like this, In a basin of water, I never miss The sweet sharp sense of ...
Looking first toward the bus looking for the girls waving good bye as they headed off to school The sun ...
First storm of the year thickening sky, heavy air darkening below the blue weight on the limbs the leaves turned ...
I have questioned the loyalty of rivers in winter, their yearnings for oceans obstructed, indecisive meandering clogged by ice floes ...
The clock is frozen in the tower, The thickening fog with sooty smell Has blanketed the motor power Which turns ...
When I see you, who were so wise and cool, Gazing with silly sickness on that fool You've given your ...
INHUMAN man! curse on thy barb'rous art, And blasted be thy murder-aiming eye; May never pity soothe thee with a ...
THOU ling'ring star, with lessening ray, That lov'st to greet the early morn, Again thou usher'st in the day My ...
The sun that brief December day Rose cheerless over hills of gray, And, darkly circled, gave at noon A sadder ...
To the Memory of the Household It Describes This Poem is Dedicated by the Author "As the Spirit of Darkness ...
Up the streets of Aberdeen, By the kirk and college green, Rode the Laird of Ury; Close behind him, close ...
THE SENTENCE Perhaps I can make it plain by analogy. Imagine a machine, not yet assembled, Each part being quite ...
Earth, earth, riding your merry-go-round toward extinction, right to the roots, thickening the oceans like gravy, festering in your caves, ...
Sometimes we collide, tectonic plates merging, continents shoving, crumpling down into the molten veins of fire deep in the earth ...
She wakens early remembering her father rising in the dark lighting the stove with a match scraped on the floor. ...
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