The Science Of The Night (Stanley Kunitz Poem)
I touch you in the night, whose gift was you, My careless sprawler, And I touch you cold, unstirring, star-bemused, ...
I touch you in the night, whose gift was you, My careless sprawler, And I touch you cold, unstirring, star-bemused, ...
felled 1879 My aspens dear, whose airy cages quelled, Quelled or quenched in leaves the leaping sun, All felled, felled, ...
I traced the Circus whose gray stones incline Where Rome and dim Etruria interjoin, Till came a child who showed ...
I MARK the months in liveries dank and dry, The day-tides many-shaped and hued; I see the nightfall shades subtrude, ...
The Roman Road runs straight and bare As the pale parting-line in hair Across the heath. And thoughtful men Contrast ...
Four second-graders, each reading, in unison A message for themselves, for the congregation reminder of the ancient truth, the power ...
A CERTAIN pious rector (John his name), But little preached, except when vintage came; And then no preparation he required ...
THE worm, the rich worm, has a noble domain In the field that is stored with its millions of slain ...
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
"Tie stille, barn min! Imorgen kommer Fin, Fa'er din, Og gi'er dich Esbern Snares öine og hjerte at lege med!" ...
Milton! I think thy spirit hath passed away From these white cliffs and high-embattled towers; This gorgeous fiery-coloured world of ...
1 EARTH, round, rolling, compact-suns, moons, animals-all these are words to be said; Watery, vegetable, sauroid advances-beings, premonitions, lispings of ...
POET. O A NEW song, a free song, Flapping, flapping, flapping, flapping, by sounds, by voices clearer, By the wind's ...
Nightfall, that saw the morning-glories float Tendril and string against the crumbling wall, Nurses him now, his skeleton for grief, ...
I will not fight: though proud of pith I hold no one worth striving with; And should resentment burn my ...
When I am dead I will not care How future generations fare, For I will be so unaware. Though fields ...
Do you give yourself to me utterly, Body and no-body, flesh and no-flesh Not as a fugitive, blindly or bitterly, ...
Wars have been and wars will be Till the human race is run; Battles red by land and sea, Never ...
No more with overflowing light Shall fill the eyes that now are faded, Nor shall another's fringe with night Their ...
"Gawaine, Gawaine, what look ye for to see, So far beyond the faint edge of the world? D'ye look to ...
The run of Billabong-go-dry Is just beyond Lime Burner's Gap; Its waterhole and tank supply Is excellent -- upon the ...
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