Manuelzinho (Elizabeth Bishop Poem)
Half squatter, half tenant (no rent)- a sort of inheritance; white, in your thirties now, and supposed to supply me ...
Half squatter, half tenant (no rent)- a sort of inheritance; white, in your thirties now, and supposed to supply me ...
I A washing hangs upon the line, but it's not mine. None of the things that I can see belong ...
On the fair green hills of Rio There grows a fearful stain: The poor who come to Rio And can't ...
For a Child of 1918 My grandfather said to me as we sat on the wagon seat, "Be sure to ...
September rain falls on the house. In the failing light, the old grandmother sits in the kitchen with the child ...
cry your dreams child, cry silent your screams as still again, those masters of war face our souls and try ...
LEAVE me a little while alone, Here at his grave that still is strown With crumbling flower and wreath; The ...
in the night the deep deep night do i dance where mirror images are lost within i bleed across the ...
on years, on the dance of whispers. where have we gone when the merry pranksters painted the soul of a ...
young girl with her south china sea eyes where an ocean wind sighs stands as she tries. in the silence ...
The lamplit page is turned, the dream forgotten; The music changes tone, you wake, remember Deep worlds you lived before,-deep ...
'Draw three cards, and I will tell your future . . . Draw three cards, and lay them down, Rest ...
Midnight; bells toll, and along the cloud-high towers The golden lights go out . . . The yellow windows darken, ...
Southeast, and storm, and every weathervane shivers and moans upon its dripping pin, ragged on chimneys the cloud whips, the ...
I The girl in the room beneath Before going to bed Strums on a mandolin The three simple tunes she ...
In early morning twilight, raw and chill, Damp vapours brooding on the barren hill, Through miles of mire in steady ...
He sendeth sun, he sendeth shower, Alike they're needful for the flower: And joys and tears alike are sent To ...
He sendeth sun, he sendeth shower, Alike they're needful for the flower: And joys and tears alike are sent To ...
A quay with vessels moored Thomas To India! Yea, here I may take ship; From here the courses go over ...
In Nineveh And beyond Nineveh In the dusk They were afraid. In Thebes of Egypt In the dust They chanted ...
I The bitterness. the misery, the wretchedness of childhood Put me out of love with God. I can't believe in ...
We sighing said, "Our Pan is dead; His pipe hangs mute beside the river Around it wistful sunbeams quiver, But ...
A little kingdom I possess where thoughts and feelings dwell, And very hard I find the task of governing it ...
My dearest Frank, I wish you joy Of Mary's safety with a Boy, Whose birth has given little pain Compared ...
I have a life that did not become, that turned aside and stopped, astonished: I hold it in me like ...
On a roof in the Old City Laundry hanging in the late afternoon sunlight: The white sheet of a woman ...
An Arab shepherd is searching for his goat on Mount Zion And on the opposite hill I am searching for ...
My child wafts peace. When I lean over him, It is not just the smell of soap. All the people ...
Glion?--Ah, twenty years, it cuts All meaning from a name! White houses prank where once were huts. Glion, but not ...
In this lone, open glade I lie, Screen'd by deep boughs on either hand; And at its end, to stay ...
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