The Beach (Weldon Kees Poem)
Squat, unshaven, full of gas, Joseph Samuels, former clerk in four large cities, out of work, waits in the darkened ...
Squat, unshaven, full of gas, Joseph Samuels, former clerk in four large cities, out of work, waits in the darkened ...
As I was spittin' into the Ditch aboard o' the Crocodile, I seed a man on a man-o'-war got up ...
"Farewell, Romance!" the Cave-men said; "With bone well carved he went away, Flint arms the ignoble arrowhead, And jasper tips ...
1914-18 Farewell and adieu to you, Harwich Ladies, Farewell and adieu to you, ladies ashore! For we've received orders to ...
For things we never mention, For Art misunderstood -- For excellent intention That did not turn to good; From ancient ...
Now comes the evening of the mind. Here are the fireflies twitching in the blood; Here is the shadow moving ...
MONTANO, SILVIO, AND MIRTILLO, SHEPHERDS MON. Bad are the times. SIL. And worse than they are we. MON. Troth, bad ...
I I would that folk forgot me quite, Forgot me quite! I would that I could shrink from sight, And ...
Over a dock railing, I watch the minnows, thousands, swirl themselves, each a minuscule muscle, but also, without the way ...
I walked on the banks of the tincan banana dock and sat down under the huge shade of a Southern ...
Even the death of evil taken by his choosing refusing to submit to stand in the dock of justice Saddened ...
Too slow coming by finally, action the world speaking standing together with the people yearning to breathe free Against the ...
Those who would be leaders guiding the nations will be called to account in the dock of history The ledgers ...
In the dead of night the wee small hours people fast asleep the leaders trying the Lord to remain in ...
What level of destruction, cruelty we are able to perpetrate when we find ourselves righteous standing in judgment of others ...
In the dock that night a singular defendant God of the people being accused of blasphemy not in the pillar ...
God, the prisoner standing in the dock accused, before the righteous quietly hearing their abuse The lies, false accusations in ...
Standing before them God in the dock the defendant unbowed standing before the righteous In the darkness, in secret lies ...
a dock, a working pier out into the estuary the pull of the tides, swaying seaweed barnacles, algae, the smell ...
The mountain brook sung lonesomelike, and loitered on its way Ez if it waited for a child to jine it ...
I'll tell you a seafaring story, Of a lad who won honour and fame Wi' Nelson at Battle 'Trafalgar, Joe ...
GROWLTIGER was a Bravo Cat, who lived upon a barge; In fact he was the roughest cat that ever roamed ...
It's coming through a hole in the air, from those nights in Tiananmen Square. It's coming from the feel that ...
All night they whine upon their ropes and boom against the dock with helpless prows: these little ships that are ...
Of the old house, only a few, crumbled Courses of brick, smothered in nettle and dock, Or a shaped stone ...
The boat ploughed on. Now Alcatraz was past And all the grey waves flamed to red again At the dead ...
NO more wine? then we'll push back chairs and talk. A final glass for me, though: cool, i' faith! We ...
I. My first thought was, he lied in every word, That hoary cripple, with malicious eye Askance to watch the ...
At low tide like this how sheer the water is. White, crumbling ribs of marl protrude and ...
Unaware of my crime they stood me in the dock. I was sentenced to life.... without her. Strange trial. No ...
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