Do Not! (Stevie Smith Poems)
Do not despair of man, and do not scold him,Who are you that you should so lightly hold him?Are you ...
Do not despair of man, and do not scold him,Who are you that you should so lightly hold him?Are you ...
In my dreams I am always saying goodbye and riding away,Whither and why I know not nor do I care.And ...
The shadow was so black,I thought it was a cat,But once in to itI knew itNo more blackThan a shadow's ...
Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning: I was much further out than you thought And ...
Away, melancholy, Away with it, let it go. Are not the trees green, The earth as green? Does not the ...
Alone in the woods I felt The bitter hostility of the sky and the trees Nature has taught her creatures ...
My heart goes out to my Creator in love Who gave me Death, as end and remedy. All living creatures ...
Never again will I weep And wring my hands And beat my head against the wall Because Me nolentem fata ...
He told his life story to Mrs. Courtly Who was a widow. 'Let us get married shortly', He said. 'I ...
Happiness is silent, or speaks equivocally for friends, Grief is explicit and her song never ends, Happiness is like England, ...
Edmonton, thy cemetery In which I love to tread Has roused in me a dreary thought For all the countless ...
Deeply morbid deeply morbid was the girl who typed the letters Always out of office hours running with her social ...
Dearest Evelyn, I often think of you Out with the guns in the jungle stew Yesterday I hittapotamus I put ...
Drugs made Pauline vague. She sat one day at the breakfast table Fingering in a baffled way The fronds of ...
Christ died for God and me Upon the crucifixion tree For God a spoken Word For me a Sword For ...
Mother, among the dustbins and the manure I feel the measure of my humanity, an allure As of the presence ...
I longed for companionship rather, But my companions I always wished farther. And now in the desolate night I think ...
I do not ask for mercy for understanding for peace And in these heavy days I do not ask for ...
Nobody knows what I feel about Freddy I cannot make anyone understand I love him sub specie aet ernitaties I ...
My life is vile I hate it so I'll wait awhile And then I'll go. Why wait at all? Hope ...
Sisely Walked so nicely With footsteps so discreet To see her pass You'd never guess She walked upon the street. ...
He said no word of her to us Nor we of her to him, But oh it saddened us to ...
Walking swiftly with a dreadful duchess, He smiled too briefly, his face was pale as sand, He jumped into a ...
The lions who ate the Christians on the sands of the arena By indulging native appetites played was now been ...
I always remember your beautiful flowers And the beautiful kimono you wore When you sat on the couch With that ...
Tenuous and Precarious Were my guardians, Precarious and Tenuous, Two Romans. My father was Hazardous, Hazardous Dear old man, Three ...
The shadow was so black, I thought it was a cat, But once in to it I knew it No ...
Our Bog is dood, our Bog is dood, They lisped in accents mild, But when I asked them to explain ...
I like to get off with people, I like to lie in their arms I like to be held and ...
It was my bridal night I remember, An old man of seventy-three I lay with my young bride in my ...
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