Prevailing Winds (Lee Anderson2 Poems)
IThe bland many-eyed wallsof skyscrapers and the modestin-between brownstone housesshall not bruise the thrust of his rapier spiritrather the artist ...
IThe bland many-eyed wallsof skyscrapers and the modestin-between brownstone housesshall not bruise the thrust of his rapier spiritrather the artist ...
THESE hallowed precincts, long to memory dear,Smile with fresh welcome as our feet draw near;With softer gales the opening leaves ...
Once git a smell o' musk into a draw,An' it clings hold like precerdents in law;Your gra'ma'am put it there,—when, ...
IThe hills are full of propheciesAnd ancient voices of the dead;Of hidden shapes that no man sees,Pale, visionary presences,That speak ...
I' b'en a-kindo musin', as the feller says, and I'm About o' the conclusion that they ain't no better time, When you ...
'Come forth!' my catbird calls to me, 'And hear me sing a cavatinaThat, in this old familiar tree, Shall hang a garden ...
Now 'tis the time when, tall, The long blue torches of the bellflower gleam Among the trees; and, by the wooded stream. In ...
IThe tufted gold of the sassafras,And the gold of the spicewood-bush,Bewilder the ways of the forest pass,And brighten the underbrush:The ...
To my office window, gray, Come the sunbeams in their play,Come the dancing, glancing sunbeams, airy fairies of the May; Like a ...
Give me a day, let business right itself,Give me one day to drift in idlenessAlong the shores of dreamland. Let ...
When the fruit trees bloom,Pink of peach and white of plum,And the pear-trees' cones of snowIn the old back orchard ...
THE SONG-BIRDS? are they flown away? The song-birds of the summer-time,That sang their souls into the day, And set the laughing days ...
Ah, it was here--September And silence filled the air-- I came last year to remember, And muse, ...
At Sugar Camp the cook is kind And laughs the laugh we knew as boys;And there we slip away and ...
One day in the bluest of summer weather,Sketching under a whispering oak, I heard five bobolinks laughing togetherOver some ornithological ...
"Brother Square-Toes"--Rewards and Fairies. If you're off to Philadelphia in the morning, You mustn't take my stories for a guide. ...
Nightfall, that saw the morning-glories float Tendril and string against the crumbling wall, Nurses him now, his skeleton for grief, ...
In the willows along the river at Pleasure Bay A catbird singing, never the same phrase twice. Here under the ...
More than a catbird hates a cat, Or a criminal hates a clue, Or the Axis hates the United States, ...
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