Night of the Scorpion (Nissim Ezekiel Poems)
I remember the night my motherwas stung by a scorpion. Ten hoursof steady rain had driven himto crawl beneath a ...
I remember the night my motherwas stung by a scorpion. Ten hoursof steady rain had driven himto crawl beneath a ...
Old Devil, when you come with horns and tail,With diabolic grin and crafty leer;I say, such bogey-man devices wholly failTo ...
Dark the sea was: but I saw him, One great head with goggle eyes,Like a diabolic cherub Flying in those fallen skies.I ...
A settler in the olden times went forthWith four of his most bold and trusted menInto the wilderness-went forth to ...
I VERSE a Settler's Tale of the old times,-One told me by our friend, the kindly sage,Old Egremont, who then ...
'TWAS night-and where a watery sound Came moaning up the Flat,Six rude and bearded stockmen round Their blazing ...
I.Faith, there's a hantle queer complaintsTo cheenge puir sinners into saints,An' mony divers ways o' deein'That doctors hae a chance ...
I'm weary of this weather and I hanker for the waysWhich people read of in the psalms and preachers paraphrase--The ...
As bullets come to us they're thin, They're angular, or smooth and fat, Some spiral are, and gimlet in, ...
Suggested By The Christiana (Pa.) Treason Trials.Treason? yes, make it treason, if ye will;Build up your gallows, and your victims ...
Erskine, thou blessed herald sound,Till sin's black empire totter to the ground.Well hast thou Sinai's awful flames display'dAnd rebel's doom ...
No, it won't do, my sweet theologians. Desire will not save the morality of God. If he created beings able ...
BY QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR OF 'WAT TYLER' 'A Daniel come to judgment! ...
'Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land, Taught my benighted soul to understand That there's a God, that there's ...
'TWAS mercy brought me from my Pagan land, Taught my benighted soul to understand That there's a God, that there's ...
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