The Dover Bitch: A Criticism Of Life (Anthony Hecht Poem)
So there stood Matthew Arnold and this girl With the cliffs of England crumbling away behind them, And he said ...
So there stood Matthew Arnold and this girl With the cliffs of England crumbling away behind them, And he said ...
[Addressed, during the Swiss tour already mentioned, to a present Lily had given him, during the time of their happy ...
I feel no small reluctance in venturing to give to the public a work of the character of that indicated ...
QUICK throbb'd my heart: to norse! haste, haste, And lo! 'twas done with ...
LET mine eye the farewell say, That my lips can utter ne'er; Fain I'd ...
THESE are the most singular of all the Poems of Goethe, and to many will appear so wild and fantastic, ...
'But that was nothing to what things came out From the sea-caves of Criccieth yonder.' 'What were they? Mermaids? dragons? ...
THE change of food enjoyment is to man; In this, t'include the woman is my plan. I cannot guess why ...
THE worst of ills, with jealousy compared, Are trifling torments ev'ry where declared. IMAGINE, to yourself a silly fool, To ...
SOME wit, handsome form and gen'rous mind; A triple engine prove in love we find; By these the strongest fortresses ...
FLORENTINE we now design to show;-- A greater blockhead ne'er appeared below; It seems a prudent woman he had wed, ...
THE key, which opes the chest of hoarded gold. Unlocks the heart that favours would withhold. To this the god ...
WHO knows the world will never feel surprise, When men are duped by artful women's eves; Though death his weapon ...
WHEN Sister Jane, who had produced a child, In prayer and penance all her hours beguiled Her sister-nuns around the ...
SHE stood against the kitchen sink, and looked Over the sink out through a dusty window At weeds the water ...
And the trees about me, Let them be dry and leafless; let the rocks Groan with continual surges; and behind ...
Send me some token, that my hope may live, Or that my easeless thoughts may sleep and rest; Send me ...
These -- saw Visions -- Latch them softly -- These -- held Dimples -- Smooth them slow -- This -- ...
Reportless Subjects, to the Quick Continual addressed -- But foreign as the Dialect Of Danes, unto the rest. Reportless Measures, ...
I was the slightest in the House -- I took the smallest Room -- At night, my little Lamp, and ...
The Gentian weaves her fringes -- The Maple's loom is red -- My departing blossoms Obviate parade. A brief, but ...
I met a seer. He held in his hands The book of wisdom. "Sir," I addressed him, "Let me read." ...
"MY First - but don't suppose," he said, "I'm setting you a riddle - Is - if your Victim be ...
Who was too Freely Moved to Tears, and thereby ruined his Political Career Lord Lundy from his earliest years Was ...
A tiger comes to mind. The twilight here Exalts the vast and busy Library And seems to set the bookshelves ...
I. My first thought was, he lied in every word, That hoary cripple, with malicious eye Askance to watch the ...
A Child's Story Hamelin Town's in Brunswick, By famous Hanover city; The river Weser, deep and wide, Washes its wall ...
SIR, as your mandate did request, I send you here a faithfu' list, O' gudes an' gear, an' a' my ...
Lo giorno se n'andava, e l'aere bruno toglieva li animai che sono in terra da le fatiche loro; e io ...
When Winchester races first took their beginning It is said the good people forgot their old Saint Not applying at ...
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