The Devil And The Monk (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
Once Satan and a monk went on a "drunk,"And Satan struck a bargain with the monk,Whereby the Devil's crew was ...
Once Satan and a monk went on a "drunk,"And Satan struck a bargain with the monk,Whereby the Devil's crew was ...
The sun is high, the seaside air is sharp,And salty light reveals the Mayan School.The Irish hope their names are ...
We are accused of terrorism:if we defended rose and womanand the mighty verse...and the blueness of sky...A dominion... nothing left ...
The plaza was so still in that moment two years ago thateverything was clear,As if it had been preserved beneath ...
Once upon a time, I layFast asleep at dawn of day;Windows open to the south,Fancy pouting her sweet mouthTo my ...
As swift the horseman o'er Lake Constance flewHis steed, snow- scattering. The twilight came.His shadow, dark- blue giant, slowly greyed,E'en ...
The lovers, in the following poem, were descended of houses that had been long at variance. The Lady is first ...
Amos and Ann had a poem to learn, A poem to learn one day; But alas! they sighed, and alack! they cried, 'Twere ...
ARGUMENT.ADDRESS to the Shade of Guttemberg--State of man before the Invention of Letters--Efforts of Ambition to perpetuate his fame--Birth of ...
Philosophy the great and only heirOf all that human knowledge which has binUnforfeited by man's rebellious sin,Though full of years ...
[The following little Poems are written after the Model of the Old English Ballads, and are inscribed to those who ...
In the background, a few shacks & overturned cartsAnd a gray sky holding the singular pallor of Lent.And here the ...
The July house was an old, old house, With an old, old man inside, Who told them stories of other days, Stories of ...
Four little chests all in a row, Dim with dust, and worn by time, All fashioned and filled, long ago, By children now ...
Ah, Almon Keefer! what a boy you were,With your back-tilted hat and careless hair,And open, honest, fresh, fair face and ...
"Kelpie's a river demon or a god,"Thus say the lexicons; I'll not belie 'em,For though I mind not in the ...
TECHNIQUE Could but this be broughtInto your ken,-that the technique is thought!Escape from "Style," the notion men can useWords without thoughts,-so ...
TO J F HNine years have slipt like hour-glass sandFrom life's still-emptying globe away,Since last, dear friend, I clasped your ...
When I dieI don't care what happens to my bodythrow ashes in the air, scatter 'em in East Riverbury an ...
A hall it was, where myriad lamps a richer daylight made,And folds of falling purple gave harmony to shade;And odours, ...
Very familiar September seemed: A flag-pole stood in the yard, And the little path that led from the road Was trampled bare and ...
There was once a town, the inhabitants of which were so passionately fondof poetry,that if some weeks passed by without ...
URN and sarcophagus erst were with life adorn'd by the heathenFauns are dancing around, while with the Bacchanal troopChequerd circles ...
It is hard to get a balanced view of Tupac Amaru Shakur (or Lesane Parish Crooks as he was known as a ...
I had a dream this morning off Madeira,About my poem and its publication.Methought it was still-born, and I could hear ...
The last walls of shame fell,And we rejoiced…And we danced…And we were blessed with the signing of the peace of ...
SCENE I.--_Near a castle in Germany._'Twere no hard task, perchance, to win The popular laurel for my song;'Twere only to comply ...
This is an introduction to the Japanese Zen poet Taigu Ryoken known for his beautiful almost seer-like poetry. He revelled ...
IThe child disturbs our view. Tow-head bent, shestands on one leg and folds up the other. She is listeningto the ...
There is a kind of writer pleased with sound, Whose fustian head with clouds is compassed round-- No reason can disperse them ...
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