Alma; or, The Progress of the Mind. In Three Cantos. – Canto III. (Matthew Prior Poems)
Richard, who now was half asleep,Roused, nor would longer silence keep;And sense like this, in vocal breath,Broke from his twofold ...
Richard, who now was half asleep,Roused, nor would longer silence keep;And sense like this, in vocal breath,Broke from his twofold ...
A POEM IN THREE CANTOS Canto I Ye Alps audacious, through the heavens that rise,To cramp the day and hide me from ...
'BusGREAT walls of green,City that is afar.We gallop alongAlert and penetrating,Roads open about us,Housetops keep at a distance.Soft-curling tendrils,Swim backwards ...
Robinson at cards at the Algonquin; a thinBlue light comes down once more outside the blinds.Gray men in overcoats are ...
RANKS of electroplated cubes, dwindling to glitters,Like the other pasture, the trigonometry of marble,Death's candy-bed. Stone caked on stone,Dry pyramids ...
IRed SlippersRed slippers in a shop-window, and outside in the street, flaws of grey,windy sleet!Behind the polished glass, the slippers ...
To St. John PerseOnce more the country callsFrom sleep, as from his doom,Each citizen to takeHis modest stakeWhere the sky ...
It starts with the picture of my grandfather,machinegunned in his car, Packard De Luxe, 1923.A snapshot with poor composition, slightlyout ...
Alice grown lazy, mammoth but not fat,Declines upon her lost and twilight age;Above in the dozing leaves the grinning catQuivers ...
the German hotel was very strange and expensive and haddouble doors to the rooms, very thick doors, and it over-looked ...
On a Friend in a SanitariumAll Virgil's idyls end in sunsets; paleWith death, the past of Dante opens deep;The men ...
When the light falls on winter eveningsAnd the river makes no sound in its passingBehind the house, is silent but ...
i have seen her a stealthily frailflower walking with its fellows in the deathof light, against whose enormous curves of ...
854Banish Air from Air -Divide Light if you dare -They'll meetWhile Cubes in a DropOr Pellets of ShapeFitFilms cannot annulOdors ...
Cross-hatchings of rain against grey walls, Slant lines of black rain In front of the up and down, wet stone ...
Banish Air from Air -- Divide Light if you dare -- They'll meet While Cubes in a Drop Or Pellets ...
Everything has its limit, including sorrow. A windowpane stalls a stare. Nor does a grill abandon a leaf. One may ...
There was a girl who danced in the city that night, that April 22nd, all along the Charles River. It ...
Moist, moist, the heat leaking through the hinges, sun baking the roof like a pie and I and thou and ...
Girls buck the wind in the grooves toward work in fuzzy coats promised to be warm as fur. The shop ...
It's my birtday I've got an empty stomach and the desire to be lazy in the hammock and maybe go ...
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