Chomei At Toyama (Basil Bunting Poems)
(Kamo-no-Chomei, born at Kamo 1154, died at Toyama on Mount Hino, 24th June 1216) Swirl sleeping in the waterfall! On ...
(Kamo-no-Chomei, born at Kamo 1154, died at Toyama on Mount Hino, 24th June 1216) Swirl sleeping in the waterfall! On ...
It chanced one day, in the middle of May, There came to the great King SploshA policeman, who said, while ...
YANKEE packet's down the water --Blow, my bully boys, blow;Third mate loved the skipper's daughter -- Blow, my bully boys, ...
I stood in a princely hall, and where Round me gather'd the brave and fair, Music in softest ...
I am a native of the land of Erin,and lately banished from that lovely shore;I left behind my aged parentsand ...
Ye sons of freedom, wake to glory!Hark! Hark! what myriads bid you rise!Your children, wives, and grandsires hoary,Behold their tears ...
One Sunday morning, as I went walking,By Brisbane waters I chanced to stray.I heard a pris'ner his fate bewailingWhile on ...
Thou delicate blossom; thy short race is ended,Thou sample of virtue and prize of the brave!No more are thy beauties ...
Child of an alien creed, thy heavier sorrows bewailing, Weep not-for ah! more pure-more fair-none with thee may compare them: ...
They say that all nature is smiling and gay, And the birds the most happy of all,But the sparrow, pursued ...
O busy ships! that smile in sailingIn a gloryLike a dream,From the colors of the harbor to the colors of ...
Thou mayst retire, but think of me When thou art gone afar,Where'er in life thy travels be, If tost along ...
You shall hear how Hiawatha Prayed and fasted in the forest, Not for greater skill in hunting, Not for greater ...
The day is ending, The night is descending; The marsh is frozen, The river dead. Through clouds like ashes The ...
I LEGEND Long ago Apollo called to Aristæus, youngest of the shepherds, Saying, "I will make you keeper of my ...
Pipes of the misty moorlands, Voice of the glens and hills; The droning of the torrents, The treble of the ...
The nightingale, as soon as April bringeth Unto her rested sense a perfect waking, While late bare earth, proud of ...
Pavement slipp'ry, people sneezing, Lords in ermine, beggars freezing ; Titled gluttons dainties carving, Genius in a garret starving. Lofty ...
See the waters of the Yellow River leap down from Heaven, Roll away to the deep sea and never turn ...
Undoubtedly he will relent, and turn From his displeasure; in whose look serene, When angry most he seemed and most ...
From cold Norse caves or buccaneer Southern seas Oft come repenting tempests here to die; Bewailing old-time wrecks and robberies, ...
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