El Greco: Espolio (Earle Birney Poems)
The carpenter is intent on the pressure of his hand on the awl and the trick of pinpointing his strengththrough ...
The carpenter is intent on the pressure of his hand on the awl and the trick of pinpointing his strengththrough ...
O, listen for a moment lads, and hear me tell my tale-how o'er the sea from England's shore I was ...
There's a regret So grinding, so immitigably sad, Remorse thereby feels tolerant, even glad. ... Do you not know it ...
Bottomless pits. There's on in Castleton, and stout upholders of our law and order one day thought its depth worth ...
'There is not much that I can do, For I've no money that's quite my own!' Spoke up the pitying ...
it comes like a convict squeezing through bars and is gone before the promptest siren it suddenly turns in the ...
In the dead of night the wee small hours people fast asleep the leaders trying the Lord to remain in ...
Christ before them the living God standing in their presence on a path, silent submitting to their power Remaining silent ...
Not under foreign skies Nor under foreign wings protected - I shared all this with my own people There, where ...
(In memoriam C. T. W. Sometime trooper of the Royal Horse Guards obiit H.M. prison, Reading, Berkshire July 7, 1896) ...
The Sun, who never stops to dine, Two hours had pass'd the mid-way line, And driving at his usual rate, ...
Now Night came down, and rose full soon That patroness of rogues, the Moon; Beneath whose kind protecting ray, Wolves, ...
1 O sight of shame, and pain, and dole! O fearful thought-a convict Soul! RANG the refrain along the hall, ...
Sleeping in fever, I am unfair to know just who you are: hung up like a pig on exhibit, the ...
As Rochefoucauld his maxims drew From nature, I believe 'em true: They argue no corrupted mind In him; the fault ...
THE SINS of Kalamazoo are neither scarlet nor crimson. The sins of Kalamazoo are a convict gray, a dishwater drab. ...
No. It can't be. No! You too, beloved? Why? What for? Darling, look - I came, I brought flowers, but, ...
It so happens I am sick of being a man. And it happens that I walk into tailorshops and movie ...
Mean while the heinous and despiteful act Of Satan, done in Paradise; and how He, in the serpent, had perverted ...
"I'd rather make $700 a week playing a maid than earn $7 a day being a maid". Hattie McDaniel. I'm ...
Where is David? . . . O God's people, Saul has passed, the good and great. Mourn for Saul the ...
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