The Natural History Of Elephants (Milton Acorn Poems)
In the elephant's five-pound brainThe whole world's both table and shithouseWhere he wanders seeking viandes, exchanging great fartsFor compliments. The ...
In the elephant's five-pound brainThe whole world's both table and shithouseWhere he wanders seeking viandes, exchanging great fartsFor compliments. The ...
'They are all up--the innumerable stars-- And hold their place in heaven. My eyes have been Searching the pearly depths through which ...
1She cleaned house, and then lay down longOn the long stair.On one of those cold white wingsThat the strange fowl ...
Good morning sweetheart.Good morning my Saint of a sweetheart.It has been two year mothersince the boy has sailedon his mythical ...
Tonight I can write the saddest lines.Write, for example, 'The night is starry and the stars are blue and shiver ...
1. Monday EveningYou see, now fear often fingers your heart,and at times the world seems only distant news;the old trees ...
THIS POEM, DEDICATED TO HIS MOTHER.To twilight heads comes Death as comes a friend.As with the gentle fading of the ...
I. Kempton, PennsylvaniaPerhaps the last of the lightlifting this evening from the field of wheatmeans something. Perhaps the viewincludes us, ...
This now is the poem of praise and of lamentation that was made forColumcille, Speckled Salmon of the Boyne, High ...
ON SEEING HER AS JULIET.OH, thou art wondrous fair! I did not dreamThus to behold the fancy of the great,Immortal ...
But say thou very woman, why to meThis fit of weakness and inconstancie?What forfeit have I made of word or ...
Sing us the Land of the Southern Sea,- The land we have called our own;Tell us what harvest there shall be From ...
[At Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, one of the famous resorts of the South, may be seen the historic ...
AN ELEGIAC POEM, On the DEATH of that celebrated Divine, and eminent Servant of JESUS CHRIST, the late Reverend, and ...
The Sun woke me this morning loudand clear, saying 'Hey! I've beentrying to wake you up for fifteenminutes. Don't be ...
well I wanted to braid my hairbathe and bedeck myself so fineso fully aforethought foryour pleasuresee:I wanted to travel and ...
Many a day have I wiled away Upon hopeful Farley Heath,In its antique soil digging for spoil Of possible treasure beneath;For celts, ...
FULL of songs he woke one morning,Every song a weighty wonderHolding universal beingNewly dressed in words of thunder."Men shall hear ...
'Tis beautiful indeed--thro' parted boughsTo see the moving clouds darken the sky,To mark their many--shifting forms, and tints,As slow they ...
for MarianLooking at the zoo the great white parkof a misty winter's afternoon "You're great!and I love you for it"All ...
I sometimes take you in my dreams to a far-off land I used to know,Back in the ages long ago; ...
KATE, they say, is seventeen- Do not count her sweet, you know.Arms of her are rather lean- Ditto, calves and feet, you ...
Grasshopper, your fairy songAnd my poem alike belongTo the dark and silent earthFrom which all poetry has birth;All we say ...
Poem for Sriram ShamasunderAnd All of Poetry for the PeopleIt's a sunlit morningwith jasmine bloomingeasilyand a drove of robin redbreastsdiving ...
VVere I to leave no more then a good friend,Or but to hear the summons to my end,(Which I have ...
I very little knew your husband, Madam;He was large and ugly, I did not know more.But we are not annoyed, ...
S Sweete Muse strike vp thy siluer string, I In shrill consort thy shake but straine, R Reflecting peales let Cosmos ring, R ...
Ha! My dear! I'm back again-- Vendor of Bohemia's wares! Lordy! How it pants a man Climbing up those awful stairs! Well, I've made ...
I will write a sketch of my early life, It will be of childhood day,And all who chance to read it, No ...
There was a curious quiet for a spaceDirectly following: and in the faceOf one rapt listener pulsed the flush and ...
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