Summer Afternoon (Bodiam Castle, Sussex) (Edith Wharton Poems)
THOU couldst not look on me and live: so runs The mortal legend -- thou that couldst not live Nor ...
THOU couldst not look on me and live: so runs The mortal legend -- thou that couldst not live Nor ...
A poet is not a jukebox, so don't tell me what to write. I read a dear friend a poem ...
Now Beowulf bode in the burg of the Scyldings,leader beloved, and long he ruledin fame with all folk, since his ...
(BALLADE BY NUR UDDIN)I have seen a small proud face brimming with sunlight;I have seen the daughter of the King ...
You do but jest, sir, and you jest not well,How could the hand be enemy of the arm, Or seed ...
In France I saw a hill—a gentle slopeRising above old tombs to greet the gleamFrom soft spring skies. Beyond these ...
THERE'S the mother at the doorway, and the children at the gate,And the little parlor windows with the curtains white ...
In all faith, we did our part:generated punctually, prepared adequately,ejected promptly,and swam in the approved mannerin the appropriate direction;did all ...
There are who lord it o'er their fellow-men With most prevailing tinsel: who unpen Their baaing vanities, to browse away ...
When mid-autumn's moan shook the night-time, And sedges were horny, And summer's green wonderwork faltered On leaze and in lane, ...
WHEN I look forth at dawning, pool, Field, flock, and lonely tree, All seem to look at me Like chastened ...
WILLIAM Dewy, Tranter Reuben, Farmer Ledlow late at plough, Robert's kin, and John's, and Ned's, And the Squire, and Lady ...
For some, a piece of paper a momentary achievement for her, a different moment, importance to the day. A wall, ...
The Alexandrians were gathered to see Cleopatra's children, Caesarion, and his little brothers, Alexander and Ptolemy, whom for the first ...
Thou know'st my praise of nature most sincere, And that my raptures are not conjur'd up To serve occasions of ...
Silver Wedding The party is over and I sit among The flotsam that its passing leaves, The dirty glasses and ...
To Dawson Town came Percy Brown from London on the Thames. A pane of glass was in his eye, and ...
I Partly to think, more to be left alone, George Annandale said something to his friends- A word or two, ...
'Tis strange that in a land so strong So strong and bold in mighty youth, We have no poet's voice ...
We have all of us read how the Israelites fled From Egypt with Pharaoh in eager pursuit of 'em, And ...
Two hands lie still, the hairy and the white, And soon down ladders of reflected light The sleepers climb in ...
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