The Coal Picker (Amy Lowell Poem)
He perches in the slime, inert, Bedaubed with iridescent dirt. The oil upon the puddles dries To colours like a ...
He perches in the slime, inert, Bedaubed with iridescent dirt. The oil upon the puddles dries To colours like a ...
O Sacred Providence, who from end to end Strongly and sweetly movest! shall I write, And not of thee, through ...
My stock lies dead and no increase Doth my dull husbandry improve: O let thy graces without cease Drop from ...
"Ah, are you digging on my grave, My loved one? -- planting rue?" -- "No: yesterday he went to wed ...
And now it was evening. And Almitra the seeress said, "Blessed be this day and this place and your spirit ...
Last nite I dreamed of T.S. Eliot welcoming me to the land of dream Sofas couches fog in England Tea ...
Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! The world is holy! The ...
It could be the name of a prehistoric beast that roamed the Paleozoic earth, rising up on its hind legs ...
Autumn moonlight-- a worm digs silently into the chestnut. (Matsuo Basho)
Some good people, daring & subtle voices and their tense faces, as I think of it I see sank underground. ...
The sky a black sphere, the sea a black disk. The lighthouse opens its solar fan on the coast. Spinning ...
Ye in the age gone by, Who ruled the world--a world how lovely then!-- And guided still the steps of ...
The gardener does not love to talk, He makes me keep the gravel walk; And when he puts his tools ...
RUM tiddy um, tiddy um, tiddy um tum tum. My knees are loose-like, my feet want to sling their selves. ...
The strongest creature for his size But least equipped for combat That dwells beneath Australian skies Is Weary Will the ...
After Adam Zagajewski I am child to no one, mother to a few, wife for the long haul. On fall ...
Now the new chum loaded his three-nought-three, It's a small-bore gun, but his hopes were big. "I am fed to ...
Oh the airman's game is a showman's game, for we all of us watch him go With his roaring soaring ...
Before she has her floor swept Or her dishes done, Any day you'll find her A-sunning in the sun! It's ...
Before she has her floor swept Or her dishes done, Any day you'll find her A-sunning in the sun! It's ...
Translated by Shorsha Sullivan (book includes DVD with audio performance directed by Piers Burton-Page, slide show of sculptures by Fritz ...
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