Majority & Minority Poems (36 Poems)
History of the Twentieth Century (A Roadshow) (Joseph Brodsky Poems)
The Sun’s in its orbit, yet I feel morbid. Act 1 Prologue Ladies and gentlemen and the day!All ye made of sweet human clay!Let me tell you: you are o’kay. Our show is to start without much delay.So let me inform … Continue reading
Fingal – Book I (James Macpherson Poems)
ARGUMENT. Cuthullin (general of the Irish tribes, in the minority of Cormac, king of Ireland) sitting alone beneath a tree, at the gate of Tura, a castle of Ulster (the other chiefs having gone on a hunting party to Cromla, … Continue reading
Alma; or, The Progress of the Mind. In Three Cantos. – Canto III. (Matthew Prior Poems)
Richard, who now was half asleep,Roused, nor would longer silence keep;And sense like this, in vocal breath,Broke from his twofold hedge of teeth.Now if this phrase too harsh be thought,Pope, tell the world ’tis not my fault.Old Homer taught us … Continue reading
Poems For Piraye (9 To 10 O’Clock Poems) (Nazim Hikmet Poems)
Remembering you is goodin prisonamid the newsof victory and deathas my fortieth year passes… Remembering you is goodyour handforgotten upon a blue dressyour hairwith the grave softnessof the earth of my beloved Istanbul.This joy of loving youis like a second … Continue reading
What Chris’mas Fetched The Wigginses (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Wintertime, er Summertime, Of late years I notice I’m, Kindo’-like, more subjec’ to What the _weather_ is. Now, you Folks ‘at lives in town, I s’pose, Thinks its bully when it snows; But the chap ‘at chops and hauls Yer wood fer ye, and then stalls, And snapps tuggs … Continue reading
Songs Of Deliverance (Orrick Johns Poems)
I-The Song Of YouthThis is the song of youth,This is the cause of myself;I knew my father well and he was a fool,Therefore will I have my own foot in the path before I take a step;I will go only … Continue reading
John Adams Monarchical Ideas (Mercy Warren Poems)
SIR:- You complain that I have asserted that a partiality for monarchy appeared in your conduct. This fact you deny, and entreat me to bring forward the evidences which I suppose will warrant the assertion. The assertion was not founded … Continue reading
Jim Crow: The Sequel (June Jordan Poems)
An angry Black woman on the subject of the angry White man: We didn’t always need affirmative actionWhen we broke this crazy land into farmswhen we planted and harvested the cropswhen we dug into the earth for waterwhen we carried … Continue reading
Era.m conseillatz (Bernard de Ventadorn Poems)
Era.m cosselhatz, senhor,vos c’avetz saber e sen:una domna.m det s’amor,c’ai amada lonjamen;mas eras sai de vertatqu’ilh a autr’amic privat,ni anc de nul companhocompanha tan greus no.m fo. D’una re sui en errore.n estau en pensamen:que m’alonje ma dolor,s’eu aquest plai … Continue reading
Behold! I am not one that goes to Lectures. (Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch Poems)
Behold! I am not one that goes to Lectures or the pow-wow ofProfessors.The elementary laws never apologise: neither do I apologise.I find letters from the Dean dropt on my table-and every one issigned by the Dean’s name-And I leave them … Continue reading