Bronx (Joseph Rodman Drake Poems)
I SAT me down upon a green bank-side,Skirting the smooth edge of a gentle river,Whose waters seemed unwillingly to glide,Like ...
I SAT me down upon a green bank-side,Skirting the smooth edge of a gentle river,Whose waters seemed unwillingly to glide,Like ...
A PHILOSOPHIC maid, with tranquil mind,Life's gayer scenes and youth's fond hopes resign'd,Left Piercefield's lov'd retreats, from childhood dear,And came ...
Quivering fears, Heart-tearing cares,Anxious sighs, Untimely tears,Fly, fly to Courts,Fly to fond worldling's sports,Where strained Sardonic smiles are glossing still,And ...
Quivering fears, heart-tearing cares,Anxious sighs, untimely tears,Fly, fly to courts,Fly to fond worldling's sports,Where strained sardonic smiles are glossing still,And ...
Before the golden gate she stands,With drooping head, with idle handsLoose-clasped, and bent beneath the weightOf unseen woe. Too late, ...
Amid the frigid regions of the North,The frost King reigns with undisputed sway,The Icebergs huge and tall, grim sentry keep,That ...
When snow is here, and the trees look weird, And the knuckled twigs are gloved with frost;When the breath congeals in ...
When snow is here, and the trees look weird,And the knuckled twigs are gloved with frost;When the breath congeals in ...
The bottle of plum wine made and left by dead Chieko,dully stagnant with ten years' weight, holds the light,and in ...
Voici venir les temps o? vibrant sur sa tigeChaque fleur s'?vapore ainsi qu'un encensoir;Les sons et les parfums tournent dans ...
HAIL! Melancholy! sable queen,With aspect awfully serene;Of silent Solitude the birth,Foe to giddy senseless Mirth;With raven plumes thy brows are ...
WHAT angel forms, attired in robes of light,Pour their effulgence on my raptur'd sight?Th' ethereal VIRTUES! lo! the radiant band!Appal'd, ...
When God is born, no power prevails,Our Lord in nakedness enwound.All fire congeals, all luster pales,Contained is He that knows ...
Stranger, approach! within this iron doorThrice locked and bolted, this rude arch beneathThat vaults with ponderous stone the cell; confinedBy ...
The night vibrates with the chatter of trucks,Of clanking couplings and screaming wheels;A column of smoke glows pink from an ...
Far from the Rappahannock, the silent Danube moves along toward the sea. The brown and green Nile rolls slowly Like ...
'Perspective betrays with its dichotomy: train tracks always meet, not here, but only in the impossible mind's eye; horizons beat ...
The air heaving like a wounded fish, breathing through its purplish sandy gills, letting in the salty gale, fluttering its ...
Wild are my ways, wilder than you think You will find me standing a little left of frame You will ...
Shoestring Press, Nottingham, 2000. VIII Final concept harbour which has broken there where it crumpled our faces there where ikons ...
The abode of the nightingale is bare, Flowered frost congeals in the gelid air, The fox howls from his frozen ...
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