Lucky (Tony Hoagland Poem)
If you are lucky in this life, you will get to help your enemy the way I got to help ...
If you are lucky in this life, you will get to help your enemy the way I got to help ...
I was six when I first saw kittens drown. Dan Taggart pitched them, 'the scraggy wee shits', Into a bucket; ...
The tractor stands frozen - an agony To think of. All night Snow packed its open entrails. Now a head-pincering ...
Lolotte, who attires my hair, Lost her lover. Lolotte weeps; Trails her hand before her eyes; Hangs her head and ...
The frustration fanned revolution coming the tinder on the hot coals the reaction of the tyrants Fanning the flames by ...
What level of destruction, cruelty we are able to perpetrate when we find ourselves righteous standing in judgment of others ...
Walking home from school early morning still past another house a birch, a sapling, by the edge of their yard, ...
I RECOLLECT, that lately much I blamed, The sort of lover, avaricious named; And if in opposites we reason see, ...
Oh, may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their ...
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
Dim, as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers, Is reason to the soul; and ...
SO grieves th' adventurous merchant, when he throws All the long toil'd-for treasure his ship stows Into the angry main, ...
Just over the horizon a great machine of death is roaring and rearing. One can hear it always. Earthquake, starvation, ...
"Aug." 10, 1911. Full moon to-night; and six and twenty years Since my full moon first broke from angel spheres! ...
"Aug." 10, 1911. Full moon to-night; and six and twenty years Since my full moon first broke from angel spheres! ...
The opposite seeks the opposite and the drop of black grows within white until turning white into black and conversely ...
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
The cruelty of P. L. Brown- (He had ten toes as good as mine) Was known to every one in ...
When I think of the many people who privately despise children, I can't say I'm completely shocked, having been one. ...
Lough, vessel, plough the British main, Seek the free ocean's wider plain; Leave English scenes and English skies, Unbind, dissever ...
New England. 1 Alas, dear Mother, fairest Queen and best, 2 With honour, wealth, and peace happy and blest, 3 ...
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
BY QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR OF 'WAT TYLER' 'A Daniel come to judgment! ...
Fresh-shaven, past months & a picture in New York of Beard Two, I did have Three took off. Well. . ...
MADONNA, mistress, I would build for thee An altar deep in the sad soul of me; And in the darkest ...
A quay with vessels moored Thomas To India! Yea, here I may take ship; From here the courses go over ...
Lo giorno se n'andava, e l'aere bruno toglieva li animai che sono in terra da le fatiche loro; e io ...
O THOU Great Being! what Thou art, Surpasses me to know; Yet sure I am, that known to Thee Are ...
WHEN chill November's surly blast Made fields and forests bare, One ev'ning, as I wander'd forth Along the banks of ...
Whate'er is Born of Mortal Birth, Must be consumed with the Earth To rise from Generation free: Then what have ...
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