The Natural History Of Elephants (Milton Acorn Poems)
In the elephant's five-pound brainThe whole world's both table and shithouseWhere he wanders seeking viandes, exchanging great fartsFor compliments. The ...
In the elephant's five-pound brainThe whole world's both table and shithouseWhere he wanders seeking viandes, exchanging great fartsFor compliments. The ...
The Desert sands are heated, parched and dreary, The tigers rend alive their quivering preyIn the near Jungle; here the kites ...
Prelude I SEE the boy-bard neath life's morning skies, While hope's bright cohorts guess ...
The HumiliationThe Summary of the Poem.Theophila, or Divine Love, ascends to her Belov'd by three Degrees. By Humilitie, by Zeal, ...
Scene I.A Garden on the banks of the Thames, at Fulham, behind the Wynnes' lodgings. Time, evening. Moon and starlight. ...
1 BLESSED was she that bare, Hidden in flesh most fair,For all men's sake ...
How beautiful doth the morning rise O'er the hills, as from her bower a bride ...
(PRESIDIO DE SAN FRANCISCO, 1800)ILooking seaward, o'er the sand-hills stands the fortress, old and quaint,By the San Francisco friars lifted ...
COME forth! the world's aflame with flags and flowers, The shout of bells fills full the shattered air, ...
False! Good God, I am dreaming!No, no, it never can be—You who are so true in seeming,You, false to your ...
353A happy lip - breaks sudden -It doesn't state you howIt contemplated - smiling -Just consummated - now -But this ...
Not all die early, dying young-Maturity of FateIs consummated equallyIn Ages, or a Night-A Hoary Boy, I've known to dropWhole ...
The covenant sealed, honoring his faith by the blood of the sacrifice animals given, offered to God consummated by the ...
That odd old man is dead a year -- We miss his stated Hat. 'Twas such an evening bright and ...
Not all die early, dying young -- Maturity of Fate Is consummated equally In Ages, or a Night -- A ...
Midsummer, was it, when They died -- A full, and perfect time -- The Summer closed upon itself In Consummated ...
A Bee his burnished Carriage Drove boldly to a Rose -- Combinedly alighting -- Himself -- his Carriage was -- ...
A happy lip -- breaks sudden -- It doesn't state you how It contemplated -- smiling -- Just consummated -- ...
'Twas in the grave-yard's gruesome gloom That May and I were mated; We sneaked inside and on a tomb Our ...
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