The Mother’s Last Watch (Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton Poems)
Written on the occasion of the death of the infant daughter of Her Grace the Duchess of Sutherland. I.HARK, through ...
Written on the occasion of the death of the infant daughter of Her Grace the Duchess of Sutherland. I.HARK, through ...
"HE stood up in our khaki with the poise Of perfect soldiership beneath the praise Of the French officer. We ...
The man said to his friend:-Soon I'll visit youand will take my wife with me.The friend decorated the houseand when ...
I always rather bar —A bazaar.I simply cannot bear —A fancy fair.I'm not keen —On dancing on the green.An olde ...
I always rather barA Bazaar.I simply cannot bearA Fancy Fair.I'm not keenOn Dancing on the Green.An Olde Englyshe revelIs the ...
(from a painting by hugo simberg) those who bear the wounded angel are they honoured or destroyed far beyond their ...
Part One As night fell and the light glittered in the great house, the servants stood at the massive door ...
I am a kind word uttered and repeated By the voice of Nature; I am a star fallen from the ...
Three days after her birthday Shanequa held two balloons each one decorated in bright colors festooned with "Happy Birthday" one ...
There were some worthy places where we could escape, avoid the heavy weight of living in a densely peopled space; ...
On an ebony bed decorated with coral eagles, sound asleep lies Nero -- unconscious, quiet, and blissful; thriving in the ...
THE PROLOGUE. When that the Knight had thus his tale told In all the rout was neither young nor old, ...
Botticelli grinned with egg tempera congealed at the hinge of his lips Velasquez licked shine from an aubergine blackened in ...
It was a storefront for a small-time numbers runner, pretending to be some sort of grocery. Coffeemakers and Bustello cans ...
On my wall hangs a Japanese carving, The mask of an evil demon, decorated with gold lacquer. Sympathetically I observe ...
Reubens, river of forgetfulness, garden of sloth, Pillow of wet flesh that one cannot love, But where life throngs and ...
At low tide like this how sheer the water is. White, crumbling ribs of marl protrude and ...
Memorial day for the war dead. Add now the grief of all your losses to their grief, even of a ...
'Twas in the year of 1857 and on the 14th of September That the Sepoy rebels at Delhi were forced ...
for Jim Cummins In Iowa, Jim dreamed that Della Street was Anne Sexton's twin. Dave drew a comic strip called ...
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