Strayed Crab (Elizabeth Bishop Poem)
This is not my home. How did I get so far from water? It must be over that way somewhere. ...
This is not my home. How did I get so far from water? It must be over that way somewhere. ...
For Louise Crane In your next letter I wish you'd say where you are going and what you are doing; ...
I dreamed that dead, and meditating, I lay upon a grave, or bed, (at least, some cold and close-built bower). ...
Well, as you say, we live for small horizons: We move in crowds, we flow and talk together, Seeing so ...
From time to time, lifting his eyes, he sees The soft blue starlight through the one small window, The moon ...
The reason to be autonomous is to stand there, a cleared instrument, ready to act, to search the moral realm ...
As Parmigianino did it, the right hand Bigger than the head, thrust at the viewer And swerving easily away, as ...
Orpheus liked the glad personal quality Of the things beneath the sky. Of course, Eurydice was a part Of this. ...
God knows it, I am with you. If to prize Those virtues, priz'd and practis'd by too few, But priz'd, ...
All those times I was bored out of my mind. Holding the log while he sawed it. Holding the string ...
Tell me not in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream!— For the soul is dead that slumbers, And ...
WHAT needs this din about the town o' Lon'on, How this new play an' that new sang is comin? Why ...
I am like, They tell me, my dear father. Broader brows Howbeit, upon a slenderer undergrowth Of delicate ...
What was he doing, the great god Pan, Down in the reeds by the river? Spreading ruin and scattering ban, ...
The vision of Christ that thou dost see Is my vision's greatest enemy. Thine has a great hook nose like ...
at the track today, Father's Day, each paid admission was entitled to a wallet and each contained a little surprise. ...
when God created love he didn't help most when God created dogs He didn't help dogs when God created plants ...
ah, christ, what a CREW: more poetry, always more P O E T R Y . if it doesn't come, ...
we are always asked to understand the other person's viewpoint no matter how out-dated foolish or obnoxious. one is asked ...
i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart) i am never without it (anywhere i go ...
You cannot change the world, But you can present the world with one improved person -- Yourself. You can go ...
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