Irony (Amy Lowell Poem)
An arid daylight shines along the beach Dried to a grey monotony of tone, And stranded jelly-fish melt soft upon ...
An arid daylight shines along the beach Dried to a grey monotony of tone, And stranded jelly-fish melt soft upon ...
The skies are brass and the plains are bare, Death and ruin are everywhere -- And all that is left ...
It was pleasant up the country, City Bushman, where you went, For you sought the greener patches and you travelled ...
On the idle hill of summer, Sleepy with the flow of streams, Far I hear the steady drummer Drumming like ...
Hark, hearer, hear what I do; lend a thought now, make believe We are leafwhelmed somewhere with the hood Of ...
IN Collins Street standeth a statute tall, A statue tall, on a pillar of stone, Telling its story, to great ...
As I calmly sat and span, Toiling with all zeal, Lo! a young and handsome man Pass'd my spinning-wheel. And ...
Homage Kenneth Koch If I were doing my Laundry I'd wash my dirty Iran I'd throw in my United States, ...
I Alphonso live and learn, Seeing nature go astern. Things deteriorate in kind, Lemons run to leaves and rind, Meagre ...
Man was made of social earth, Child and brother from his birth; Tethered by a liquid cord Of blood through ...
I have had enough. I gasp for breath. Every way ends, every road, every foot-path leads at last to the ...
Amber husk fluted with gold, fruit on the sand marked with a rich grain, treasure spilled near the shrub-pines to ...
If you will die for me, I will die for you and our graves will be like two lovers washing ...
And the first grey of morning fill'd the east, And the fog rose out of the Oxus stream. But all ...
AULD chuckie Reekie's 1 sair distrest, Down droops her ance weel burnish'd crest, Nae joy her bonie buskit nest Can ...
HAIL, Poesie! thou Nymph reserv'd! In chase o' thee, what crowds hae swerv'd Frae common sense, or sunk enerv'd 'Mang ...
AFRICA I will sing you a song of Los. the Eternal Prophet: He sung it to four harps at the ...
(published on BLINKING EYE, http://www.blinking-eye.co.uk/writer/padel2.html ) Then spoke the thunder, shattering the looming blackness of our national life. The rumble ...
1. The dark socket of the year the pit, the cave where the sun lies down and threatens never to ...
In the pathway of the sun, In the footsteps of the breeze, Where the world and sky are one, He ...
The artichoke of delicate heart erect in its battle-dress, builds its minimal cupola; keeps stark in its scallop of scales. ...
No matter what I say, All that I really love Is the rain that flattens on the bay, And the ...
Strong sun, that bleach The curtains of my room, can you not render Colourless this dress I wear?- This violent ...
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