Nocturne of the Wharves (Arna Bontemps Poem)
All night they whine upon their ropes and boom against the dock with helpless prows: these little ships that are ...
All night they whine upon their ropes and boom against the dock with helpless prows: these little ships that are ...
1 They that in play can do the thing they would, Having an instinct throned in reason's place, --And every ...
SHE will not sleep, for fear of dreams, But, rising, quits her restless bed, And walks where some beclouded beams ...
BUT two miles more, and then we rest ! Well, there is still an hour of day, And long the ...
Whither, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day Far, through their rosy depths, dost ...
Ay! gloriously thou standest there, Beautiful, boundless firmament! That swelling wide o'er earth and air, And round the horizon bent, ...
Here is the city- its worn-down mountains, its grass and iron, its smoky coast seen from the high roads on ...
This harbour was made by art and force. And called Kingstown and afterwards Dun Laoghaire. And holds the sea behind ...
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Out on the high "bird islands," Ciboux and Hertford, the razorbill auks and the silly-looking puffins all stand with their ...
Here is a coast; here is a harbor; here, after a meager diet of horizon, is some scenery: impractically shaped ...
The state with the prettiest name, the state that floats in brackish water, held together by mangrave roots that bear ...
Adieu to Belashanny! where I was bred and born; Go where I may, I'll think of you, as sure as ...
O THOU dread Power, who reign'st above, I know thou wilt me hear, When for this scene of peace and ...
IT was in sweet Senegal that my foes did me enthral, For the lands of Virginia,-ginia, O: Torn from that ...
THE SUN had clos'd the winter day, The curless quat their roarin play, And hunger'd maukin taen her way, To ...
The breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound coast, And the woods, against a stormy sky, Their giant ...
The Argument. Rintrah roars & shakes his fires in the burdend air; Hungry clouds swag on the deep Once meek, ...
I met a genius on the train today about 6 years old, he sat beside me and as the train ...
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