St. Alexis, Patron of Beggars (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
We who beg for bread as we daily tread Country lane and city street, Let us kneel and pray on ...
We who beg for bread as we daily tread Country lane and city street, Let us kneel and pray on ...
Severe against the pleasant arc of sky The great stone box is cruelly displayed. The street becomes more dreary from ...
Beyond the path of the outmost sun through utter darkness hurled -- Further than ever comet flared or vagrant star-dust ...
"For here lay the excellent wisdom of him that built Mansoul, thatthe walls could never be broken down nor hurt ...
O Sovereign power of love! O grief! O balm! All records, saving thine, come cool, and calm, And shadowy, through ...
O suns and skies and clouds of June, And flowers of June together, Ye cannot rival for one hour October's ...
WHERE is this patriarch you are kindly greeting? Not unfamiliar to my ear his name, Nor yet unknown to many ...
Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain, Where health and plenty cheered the labouring swain, Where smiling spring its earliest ...
Then a lawyer said, "But what of our Laws, master?" And he answered: You delight in laying down laws, Yet ...
Thou born to sip the lake or spring, Or quaff the waters of the stream, Why hither come on vagrant ...
They leave us so to the way we took, As two in whom them were proved mistaken, That we sit ...
I OBSERVE: "Our sentimental friend the moon! Or possibly (fantastic, I confess) It may be Prester John's balloon Or an ...
Let me but do my work from day to day, In field or forest, at the desk or loom, In ...
To disappear enhances -- The Man that runs away Is tinctured for an instant With Immortality But yesterday a Vagrant ...
The dung was recent, not an event unusual in itself but difficult to explain of cows grazing the other side ...
The symbols that we use are T shirts of the dead thoughts of corpses without heads, a rictus without sound ...
I LORD of the grass and hill, Lord of the rain, White Overlord of will, Master of pain, I who ...
Tufts, follicles, grubstake biennial rosettes, a low- life beach-blond scruff of couch grass: notwithstanding the interglinting dregs of wholesale upheaval ...
Karshish, the picker-up of learning's crumbs, The not-incurious in God's handiwork (This man's-flesh he hath admirably made, Blown like a ...
FAIR the face of orient day, Fair the tints of op'ning rose; But fairer still my Delia dawns, More lovely ...
The vision of Christ that thou dost see Is my vision's greatest enemy. Thine has a great hook nose like ...
Miniver Cheevy, child of scorn, Grew lean while he assailed the seasons; He wept that he was ever born, And ...
Over the fields we go, through the sweets of the purple clover, That letters a message for us as for ...
When the dark comes down, oh, the wind is on the sea With lisping laugh and whimper to the red ...
Amid earth's vagrant noises, he caught the note sublime: To-day around him surges from the silences of Time A flood ...
I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is ...
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