Parent’s Pantoum (Carolyn Kizer Poems)
for Maxine Kumin Where did these enormous children come from, More ladylike than we have ever been? Some of ours ...
for Maxine Kumin Where did these enormous children come from, More ladylike than we have ever been? Some of ours ...
SHE has gone,-- she has left us in passion and pride,-- Our stormy-browed sister, so long at our side! She ...
Images leap with him from branch to branch. His eyes brighten, his head cocks, he pauses under a green bough, ...
I What new element before us unborn in nature? Is there a new thing under the Sun? At last inquisitive ...
Dear God, I give you thanks for this day, for the days of my life so far and all the ...
A Song for My Muse A wish, a prayer, a hope, a promise, shouted in the Highland air. A stone, ...
A year ago A poem took shape First in my heart Then on the printed page. Born of my love ...
I'm in a new school I'm the new face With my great style, I'm here To brighten up the place ...
FOR He, that made, must new create us, Ere Seneca, or Epictetus, With all their serious Admonitions, Can, for the ...
I'll tell you an old-fashioned story That Grandfather used to relate, Of a joiner and building contractor; 'Is name, it ...
I had come to the house, in a cave of trees, Facing a sheer sky. Everything moved, -- a bell ...
A RETURN TO THE COVER OF THIS BOOK Dear Trout Fishing in America: I met your friend Fritz in Washington ...
I. Said Abner, ``At last thou art come! Ere I tell, ere thou speak, ``Kiss my cheek, wish me well!'' ...
ANCIEN REGIME I Now that I, tying thy glass mask tightly, May gaze through these faint smokes curling whitely, As ...
As Parmigianino did it, the right hand Bigger than the head, thrust at the viewer And swerving easily away, as ...
The truest friends, how few they are. Still time, it seems, must take them far to God knows where and ...
For ever, since my childish looks Could rest on Nature's pictured books; For ever, since my childish tongue Could name ...
In these deep solitudes and awful cells, Where heav'nly-pensive contemplation dwells, And ever-musing melancholy reigns; What means this tumult in ...
I I have loved England, dearly and deeply, Since that first morning, shining and pure, The white cliffs of Dover ...
But therewith the sun rose upward and lightened all the earth, And the light flashed up to the heavens from ...
Farewell! but whenever you welcome the hour That awakens the night-song of mirth in your bower, Then think of the ...
Oh! breathe not his name, let it sleep in the shade, Where cold and unhonour'd his relics are laid: Sad, ...
Oh! think not my spirits are always as light, And as free from a pang as they seem to you ...
Sing -- sing -- Music was given To brighten the gay, and kindle the loving; Souls here, like planets in ...
To Ladies' eyes a round, boy, We can't refuse, we can't refuse; Though bright eyes so abound, boy, 'Tis hard ...
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