ASTR (John Henry Dryden Poems)
Now with a general peace the world was blest,While ours, a world divided from the rest,A dreadful quiet felt, and ...
Now with a general peace the world was blest,While ours, a world divided from the rest,A dreadful quiet felt, and ...
'This famous wicked little taleShould never have been put on saleIt is a mystery to meWhy loving parents cannot seeThat ...
THROUGH some strange sense of sight or touchI find what all have found before,The presence I have feared so much,The ...
We saw the mass grave at the Moscow Zoo.A sullen man dug up a human skullThen held it high for ...
IThe sister Hours in circles linked,Daughters of men, of men the mates,Are gone on flow with the day that winked,With ...
IIn Nino's chamber not a sound intrudesUpon the midnight's tingling silentness,Where Nino sits before his book and broods,Thin and brow-burdened ...
Once on a time there was a fagot-maker, And he had seven sons. Who could be aught but ...
Trembling Creation's omnipresent sun,Immanent Harmonist, Whose rhythms run.Alike where midge pursues his swift romance,Or grave stars cluster for their midnight ...
I know not why I love your baffling face,Or, lonely, to your cold caresses steal,Or what the charm persuades my ...
Dismal day, with the weather inclement.Inconsolably rivulets runDown the porch in front of the doorway;Through my wide-open windows they come.But ...
On a fateful day, an unlucky time,Unannounced, it may happen thus:Stifling, blacker still than a monasteryUtter madness descends on us.Bitter ...
The skin ripples over my body like moon-wooed water, rearing to escape me. Where could it find another animal as ...
I had sex with a famous poet last night and when I rolled over and found myself beside him I ...
Why can't I keep out of harm's way? Am I so preoccupied, simultaneously looking ahead, concurrently looking behind; concerned to ...
I know it's a bad title but I'm giving it to myself as a gift on a day nearly canceled ...
As Parmigianino did it, the right hand Bigger than the head, thrust at the viewer And swerving easily away, as ...
arrive. The Ladies from the Ladies' Betterment League Arrive in the afternoon, the late light slanting In diluted gold bars ...
for Brenda Williams The dawn cracked with ice, with fire grumbling in the grate, With ire in the homes we ...
WHEN I read the book, the biography famous, And is this, then, (said I,) what the author calls a man's ...
To find clues where there are none, That's my job now, I said to the Dictionary on my desk. The ...
The doctor fingers my bruise. "Magnificent," he says, "black at the edges and purple cored." Seated, he spies for clues, ...
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