Eating Alone (Li-Young Lee Poem)
I've pulled the last of the year's young onions. The garden is bare now. The ground is cold, brown and ...
I've pulled the last of the year's young onions. The garden is bare now. The ground is cold, brown and ...
1 A yellow band of light upon the street Pours from an open door, and makes a wide Pathway of ...
Light on the towns and cities, and peace for evermore! The Big Five met in the world's light as many ...
There is a fork in a branch of an ancient, enormous maple, one of a grove of such trees, where ...
I imagine them walking down rocky paths toward me, strong, Italian women returning at dusk from fields where they worked ...
No door has my house, No house has my door; And in and out ever I carry my store. No ...
NOUGHT more accursed in war I know Than getting off scot-free; Inured to danger, on we go In constant victory; ...
THERE stands on yonder high mountain A castle built of yore, Where once lurked horse and horseman In rear of ...
Off in the basement beyond the cellar stairway in the mist of the dust the harbingers of time Within the ...
The French had nothing on us. okay, other than skill, tradition, and hygiene We all were vintners for a moment ...
How cool and fair this cellar where My throne a dusky cask is; To do no thing but just to ...
NO city I to Rheims would e'er prefer: Of France the pride and honour I aver; The Holy Ampoule and ...
WHEN Cupid with his dart, would hearts assail, The rampart most secure is not the VEIL; A husband better will ...
A governor it was proclaimed this time, When all who would come seeking in New Hampshire Ancestral memories might come ...
I stayed the night for shelter at a farm Behind the mountains, with a mother and son, Two old-believers. They ...
Her teacher's certainty it must be Mabel Made Maple first take notice of her name. She asked her father and ...
All out of doors looked darkly in at him Through the thin frost, almost in separate stars, That gathers on ...
My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree Toward heaven still, And there's a barrel that I didn't fill Beside ...
I DWELL in a lonely house I know That vanished many a summer ago, And left no trace but the ...
The living room is overgrown with grass. It has come up around the furniture. It stretches through the dining room, ...
Mistah Kurtz -- he dead. A penny for the Old Guy I We are the hollow men We are the ...
Under the Light, yet under, Under the Grass and the Dirt, Under the Beetle's Cellar Under the Clover's Root, Further ...
Remembrance has a Rear and Front -- 'Tis something like a House -- It has a Garret also For Refuse ...
Like Brooms of Steel The Snow and Wind Had swept the Winter Street -- The House was hooked The Sun ...
Old Noah he had an ostrich farm and fowls on the largest scale, He ate his egg with a ladle ...
NO more wine? then we'll push back chairs and talk. A final glass for me, though: cool, i' faith! We ...
A Child's Story Hamelin Town's in Brunswick, By famous Hanover city; The river Weser, deep and wide, Washes its wall ...
we have everything and we have nothing and some men do it in churches and some men do it by ...
Still sober, César Vallejo comes home and finds a black ribbon around the apartment building covering the front door. He ...
(To Edgar Lee Masters, with great respect) HERE upon the prarie Is our ancestral hall. Agate is the dome, Cornelian ...
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