Sophism: On Mealy Mortgage (Raymond Queneau Poems)
Now the bright mortgaged starter, dealer's hardware,Comes dancing from the echo, and leads with herThe flow'ry meal, who from her ...
Now the bright mortgaged starter, dealer's hardware,Comes dancing from the echo, and leads with herThe flow'ry meal, who from her ...
Gazing upon the toiling seas,In gloomy rows the silent captives sate;And as the ship rode off before the breeze,They murmured ...
PART THE FIRST.IN THELMON'S breast contending passions rise, While, with resentment stung, he proudly flies; The harmonist divine, to madness ...
GERTRUDE.IN clouds drew on the evening's close, Which cross the west in ranges stood, As pensive GERTRUDE sought the wood, ...
On Santa Croce's golden-pillared shrine, A thousand tapers pour their blended rays In one rich tide of radiance. Like a ...
SONG I.WILD wing my notes, fierce passions urge the strain; Strong flame the fires that kindle in my soul; I ...
WILD ROSE of Alloway! my thanks:Thou 'mindst me of that autumn noonWhen first we met upon "the banksAnd braes o'bonny ...
"WHEN Nature had made all her birds, With no more cares to think on, She gave a rippling laugh, ...
What anguish rankled 'neath that silent breast? What spectral figures mocked those staring eyes, Luring them on to Stygian mysteries?What ...
INTENDED TO HAVE BEEN PREFIXED TO THE NOVELOF EMMELINE, BUT THEN SUPPRESSED. O'ERWHELM'D with sorrow, and sustaining long"The proud man's ...
Oh, he whose pain means life, whose life means pain, May feel again what I have felt before; ...
Muse of my native land! loftiest Muse! O first-born on the mountains! by the hues Of heaven on the spiritual ...
When by my solitary hearth I sit, And hateful thoughts enwrap my soul in gloom; When no fair dreams before ...
The beach was crowded. Pausing now and then, He groped and fiddled doggedly along, His worn face glaring on the ...
A DEMON, blacker in his skin than heart, So great a charm was prompted to impart; To one in love, ...
The room is quiet, thoughts alone People its mute tranquillity; The yoke put on, the long task done, I am, ...
I. You're my friend: I was the man the Duke spoke to; I helped the Duchess to cast off his ...
I There was a roaring in the wind all night; The rain came heavily and fell in floods; But now ...
The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats through unseen among us, -- visiting This various world with as inconstant ...
I rode one evening with Count Maddalo Upon the bank of land which breaks the flow Of Adria towards Venice: ...
SORC'RESS of the Cave profound! Hence, with thy pale, and meagre train, Nor dare my roseate bow'r profane, Where light-heel'd ...
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