The Assassination (Donald Justice Poem)
It begins again, the nocturnal pulse. It courses through the cables laid for it. It mounts to the chandeliers and ...
It begins again, the nocturnal pulse. It courses through the cables laid for it. It mounts to the chandeliers and ...
"Soyez muette pour moi, Idole contemplative..." I came home and found a lion in my living room Rushed out on ...
One of our own, one of us, a member with us our prayers, long repeated oft remembered, our prayers answered ...
Announced by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields, Seems nowhere to alight: ...
"Sic transit gloria mundi," "How doth the busy bee," "Dum vivimus vivamus," I stay mine enemy! Oh "veni, vidi, vici!" ...
With saddest music all day long She soothed her secret sorrow: At night she sighed "I fear 'twas wrong Such ...
'Twas after dread Pultowa's day, When fortune left the royal Swede - Around a slaughtered army lay, No more to ...
I am poor brother Lippo, by your leave! You need not clap your torches to my face. Zooks, what's to ...
Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was ...
I stood there in front of forty-five faces The first day of term, not especially fancying "Exercises in Mechanical Arithmetic" ...
(or 'Huddersfield the Second Poetry Capital of England Re-visited') What was it Janice Simmons said to me as James lay ...
My doc announced yesterday : "You may have talent, though it's hidden, your beak, however, is frost-bitten, so stick at ...
At midnight the would-be ascetic announced: "This is the time to give up my home and seek for God. Ah, ...
A city clerk, but gently born and bred; His wife, an unknown artist's orphan child-- One babe was theirs, a ...
Ye in the age gone by, Who ruled the world--a world how lovely then!-- And guided still the steps of ...
The horns in the harbor booming, vaguely, Fog, forgotten, yesterday, conclusion, Nostalgic, noising dim sorrow, calling To sleep is it? ...
Though for your sake I would not have you now So near to me tonight as now you are, God ...
'TWAS to a small, up-country town, When we were boys at school, There came a circus with a clown, Likewise ...
Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown ...
We were smoking some of this knockout weed when Operation Memory was announced. To his separate bed Each soldier went, ...
In long gone years a fox and crane Were bound in friendship's golden chain; Whene'er they met, the fox would ...
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