A Pastiche For Eve (Weldon Kees Poem)
Unmanageable as history: these Followers of Tammuz to the land That offered no return, where dust Grew thick on every ...
Unmanageable as history: these Followers of Tammuz to the land That offered no return, where dust Grew thick on every ...
[First published in Schiller's Horen, in connection with a friendly contest in the art of ballad-writing between the two great ...
Part One The power of charity sows deep in my heart, and I reap and gather the wheat in bundles ...
Thousand minstrels woke within me, "Our music's in the hills; "- Gayest pictures rose to win me, Leopard-colored rills. Up!-If ...
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot "Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et ...
In Ionia whence sprang old poets' fame, From whom that sea did first derive her name, The blessed bed whereon ...
Of all our antic sights and pageantry Which English idiots run in crowds to see, The Polish Medal bears the ...
Lad of Athens, faithful be To Thyself, And Mystery -- All the rest is Perjury -- (Emily Dickinson)
This is a day of happiness, sweet peace, And heavenly sunshine; upon which conven'd In full assembly fair, once more ...
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
Maid of Athens, ere we part, Give, oh, give back my heart! Or, since that has left my breast, Keep ...
You are a friend then, as I make it out, Of our man Shakespeare, who alone of us Will put ...
'Tis hard to say, if greater Want of Skill Appear in Writing or in Judging ill, But, of the two, ...
Ne Rubeam, Pingui donatus Munere (Horace, Epistles II.i.267) While you, great patron of mankind, sustain The balanc'd world, and open ...
Wreathed in myrtle, my sword I'll conceal Like those champions devoted and brave, When they plunged in the tyrant their ...
My mother was for woman's rights And my father was the rich miller at London Mills. I dreamed of the ...
No more of talk where God or Angel guest With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd, To sit indulgent, ...
Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown ...
Athens, Greece, August 25, 2004 Gold-Medal Gal of Israel By Sharon Esther Lampert (The Sexist Creative Genius in Human History) ...
Tanagra! think not I forget Thy beautifully-storey'd streets; Be sure my memory bathes yet In clear Thermodon, and yet greets ...
In Havana in 1948 I ate fried dog believing it was Peking duck. Later, in Tampa I bunked with an ...
Let not our town be large, remembering That little Athens was the Muses' home, That Oxford rules the heart of ...
How tall among her sisters, and how fair, -- How grave beyond her youth, yet debonair As dawn, 'mid wrinkled ...
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