Business Girls (John Betjeman Poem)
From the geyser ventilators Autumn winds are blowing down On a thousand business women Having baths in Camden Town Waste ...
From the geyser ventilators Autumn winds are blowing down On a thousand business women Having baths in Camden Town Waste ...
She died in the upstairs bedroom By the light of the ev'ning star That shone through the plate glass window ...
THE GOSSOON It's bleedin'! It's bleedin'! THE OULD WOMAN An' shure, me lad, 't is bleedin'; But come, ...
Writing from Boston, where sky is simply property, a flourish topping crowds of condos and historic real estate, I'm trying ...
ARRANGING long-locked drawers and shelves Of cabinets, shut up for years, What a strange task we've set ourselves ! How ...
Slowly up silent peaks, the white edge of the world, Trod four archangels, clear against the unheeding sky, Bearing, with ...
Slowly up silent peaks, the white edge of the world, Trod four archangels, clear against the unheeding sky, Bearing, with ...
Today I have been happy. All the day I held the memory of you, and wove Its laughter with the ...
There was a damned successful Poet; There was a Woman like the Sun. And they were dead. They did not ...
Sparrow singing-- its tiny mouth open. (Yosa Buson)
Black trees against an orange sky, Trees that the wind shook terribly, Like a harsh spume along the road, Quavering ...
"Oh yes, I went over to Edmonstoun the other day and saw Johnny, mooning around as usual! He will never ...
The boat ploughed on. Now Alcatraz was past And all the grey waves flamed to red again At the dead ...
THE PUDDING MASTER OF STANLEY BASIN Tree, snow and rock beginnings, the mountain in back of the lake promised us ...
A RETURN TO THE COVER OF THIS BOOK Dear Trout Fishing in America: I met your friend Fritz in Washington ...
SEA, SEA RIDER The man who owned the bookstore was not magic. He was not a three-legged crow on the ...
Because my faltering feet may fail to dare The first descendant of the steps of Hell Give me the Word ...
Three 'coons come at his garbage. He be cross, I figuring porcupine & took Sir poker unbarring Mr door, & ...
He lay in the middle of the world, and twicht. More Sparine for Pelides, human (half) & down here as ...
Oh, to be in England Now that April's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware, That the ...
I see you drinking at a fountain with tiny blue hands, no, your hands are not tiny they are small, ...
About the size of an old-style dollar bill, American or Canadian, mostly the same whites, gray greens, and steel grays ...
At four o'clock in the gun-metal blue dark we hear the first crow of the first cock just below the ...
In the cold, cold parlor my mother laid out Arthur beneath the chromographs: Edward, Prince of Wales, with Princess Alexandra, ...
I caught a tremendous fish and held him beside the boat half out of water, with my hook fast in ...
Departure At last, I'm leaving the familiar roof! I'm undeterred by rain and wind. This presentation should be quite a ...
Inheritance. I wasn't raised to call myself Black, Indian, Chinese-- "You're human," said my parents. That was all. By the ...
I miss you too. Something old is broken, nobody's in hell. Sometimes I kiss strangers, sometimes no one speaks. Today ...
You see that porcelain ranged there in the window- Platters and soup-plates done with pale pink rosebuds, And tiny violets, ...
The cigarette-smoke loops and slides above us, Dipping and swirling as the waiter passes; You strike a match and stare ...
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