The Orient Express (Randall Jarrell Poem)
One looks from the train Almost as one looked as a child. In the sunlight What I see still seems ...
One looks from the train Almost as one looked as a child. In the sunlight What I see still seems ...
The forest bitter, spiky, no shore breeze, no foothills, the grass grows matted, death will come with horses' hooves, endlessly ...
Robin and his merry men : Lived just like the birds; They had almost as many tracks as thoughts, : ...
It flows through old hushed Egypt and its sands, Like some grave mighty thought threading a dream, And times and ...
It flows through old hushed Egypt and its sands, Like some grave mighty thought threading a dream, And times and ...
Whither, mad maiden, wilt thou roam? Far safer 'twere to stay at home; Where thou mayst sit, and piping, please ...
Come, Anthea, let us two Go to feast, as others do: Tarts and custards, creams and cakes, Are the junkets ...
I Jesús, Estrella, Esperanza, Mercy: Sails flashing to the wind like weapons, sharks following the moans the fever and the ...
When a man starts out with nothing, When a man starts out with his hands Empty, but clean, When a ...
Night fell over North Lebanon and snow was covering the villages surrounded by the Kadeesha Valley, giving the fields and ...
Each one of us, charged, commissioned to sow the seeds of faith, planting our mustard seeds in the soil, in ...
Christian voices crying out in the wilderness in the urban jungle, the suburban villages speaking the truth, against complacency against ...
From near and far, the villages the countryside, all around seeing him crossing the sea they came to him all ...
The saints before us, toiling in the vineyard out in the pastures, on the rocky mountains, in the villages and ...
We who sleep a little later, ventured from our slumber found a fairyland of Christmas of trees, angels, villages, greens ...
THE change of food enjoyment is to man; In this, t'include the woman is my plan. I cannot guess why ...
In his travels he comes to a bridge made entirely of bones. Before crossing he writes a letter to his ...
'A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a ...
June 22, 1611 THE SHALLOP ON HUDSON BAY One sail in sight upon the lonely sea And only one, God ...
The Frost was never seen -- If met, too rapid passed, Or in too unsubstantial Team -- The Flowers notice ...
I have never seen "Volcanoes" -- But, when Travellers tell How those old -- phlegmatic mountains Usually so still -- ...
Have any like Myself Investigating March, New Houses on the Hill descried -- And possibly a Church -- That were ...
I would not paint -- a picture -- I'd rather be the One Its bright impossibility To dwell -- delicious ...
What is it with Hezbollah representing barely 15% of the Lebanese Parliament living outside the government immersed in an undeclared ...
Black granite stretches its harsh, tapering wings up to pedestrian-level grass but sucks me down, here, at the intersection of ...
Thou know'st my praise of nature most sincere, And that my raptures are not conjur'd up To serve occasions of ...
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
The stone-built villages of England. A cathedral bottled in a pub window. Cows dispersed across fields. Monuments to kings. A ...
The day had been a day of wind and storm;-- The wind was laid, the storm was overpast,-- And stooping ...
Thee the ancientest peer, Duke of Burgundy, rose from the monarch's right hand, red as wines From his mountains; an ...
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