As It Begins With A Brush Stroke On A Snare Drum (Larry Levis Poems)
The plaza was so still in that moment two years ago thateverything was clear,As if it had been preserved beneath ...
The plaza was so still in that moment two years ago thateverything was clear,As if it had been preserved beneath ...
In the Borghese, Caravaggio, painter of boy whores, street punk, exile & murderer,Left behind his own face in the decapitated, ...
This is now--this was erst,Proposition the first--and Problem the first.I.On a given finite LineWhich must no way incline;To describe an ...
I.A mathematician fell madly in loveWith a lady, young, handsome, and charming:By angles and ratios harmonic he stroveHer curves and ...
Howe'er, 'tis well that, while mankindThrough fate's perverse meander errs,He can imagined pleasures findTo combat against real cares.Fancies and notions ...
A discerning man questioned one of the indifferent, whom he saw to be very foolish and thoughtless, saying, Hast thou ...
Yes, every poet is a fool;By demonstration, Ned can show it:Happy could Ned's inverted ruleProve every fool to be a ...
High on a gorgeous seat, that far out-shoneHenley's gilt tub, or Flecknoe's Irish throne,Or that where on her Curlls the ...
I stood in the street in the noontide, precisely at midday time,For the loud-mouthed bells of the G.P.O. had that ...
Philosophy's most useful part is this,Which shews us what a wise man's duty is,Which teacheth what we should pursue or ...
Beside the dead man two veil'd women sit;All the night long over the catafalqueTwelve tapers burn; from many a precious ...
Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon. As for the Greek theatrical tradition Which represents ...
I'll tell of Canute, King of England, A native of Denmark was he, His hobbies was roving and raiding And ...
THE PROLOGUE. The Sompnour in his stirrups high he stood, Upon this Friar his hearte was so wood,* *furious That ...
As Parmigianino did it, the right hand Bigger than the head, thrust at the viewer And swerving easily away, as ...
Shall the great soul of Newton quit this earth, To mingle with his stars; and every muse, Astonish'd into silence, ...
The Sun, who never stops to dine, Two hours had pass'd the mid-way line, And driving at his usual rate, ...
At break of day the College Portress came: She brought us Academic silks, in hue The lilac, with a silken ...
Aunt Imogen was coming, and therefore The children-Jane, Sylvester, and Young George- Were eyes and ears; for there was only ...
'Twas in the year of 1884, and on Saturday the 20th of September, Which the inhabitants of Dundee will long ...
This institution, perhaps one should say enterprise out of respect for which one says one need not change one's mind ...
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