A Scene and a birth (Kendrick Smithyman Poems)
Pump the old harmonium in a back room.The kettle's on for tea at four o'clock.A man's to get born, who'll ...
Pump the old harmonium in a back room.The kettle's on for tea at four o'clock.A man's to get born, who'll ...
I STAND alone through each long dayUpon these pavers; cannot seeThe wares spread out upon this tray-For God has taken ...
I journeyed to the east,Rolled on the surgent airs of autumn days:Below, the earth lay creasedWith myriad meadows in the ...
THEY hold their own, they have no peersIn gloom and glow, in hopes and fears,In love and terror, hovering roundThe ...
Reynard, the Fox, was asked to a party."Come", they said, in your Sunday best,For we like good form, tho' the ...
In the everlasting summer, when the town is limp with heat,and the asphalt of the footpath curls your boots and ...
Our Bobby is a little boy, of six years old, or so; And every kind of rubbish in his pocket ...
The thousand streets of London grayRepel all country sights;But bar not winds upon their way,Nor quench the scent of new-mown ...
First Entry - 1832.WITH eager hand I ope' the book,And on a smooth, white series look,Of shrines for thoughts of ...
Dear Mother Earth her children treesClad well in robes of white,That they may rest in perfect peaceThrough all the winter ...
The bud stands for all things, even those things that don't flower, for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing; though ...
'My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words.' Arthur ...
Lancaster bore him--such a little town, Such a great man. It doesn't see him often Of late years, though he ...
Here at the spoke-ends of our galaxy it is easy to forget the central axle moving insensibly slow, still the ...
"Ah, did you once see Shelley plain?" -- Browning. "Shelley? Oh, yes, I saw him often then," The old man ...
NO more wine? then we'll push back chairs and talk. A final glass for me, though: cool, i' faith! We ...
SOFT, small, and sweet as sunniest flowers That bask in heavenly heat When bud by bud breaks, breathes, and cowers, ...
I Let others sing of gold and gear, the joy of being rich; But oh, the days when I was ...
My brother Jim's a millionaire, while I have scarce a penny; His face is creased with lines of care, While ...
To Jena Woodhouse This way of minutes miserably mixed With their own blinks misunderstood By birds and trees, this eye-born ...
I was drivin' my two-mule waggin, With a lot o' truck for sale, Towards Macon, to git some baggin' (Which ...
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