Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (John Ashbery Poem)
As Parmigianino did it, the right hand Bigger than the head, thrust at the viewer And swerving easily away, as ...
As Parmigianino did it, the right hand Bigger than the head, thrust at the viewer And swerving easily away, as ...
Something strange is creeping across me. La Celestina has only to warble the first few bars Of "I Thought about ...
The evening comes, the fields are still. The tinkle of the thirsty rill, Unheard all day, ascends again; Deserted is ...
IS it so small a thing To have enjoy'd the sun, To have lived light in the spring, To have ...
Glion?--Ah, twenty years, it cuts All meaning from a name! White houses prank where once were huts. Glion, but not ...
How changed is here each spot man makes or fills! In the two Hinkseys nothing keeps the same; The village ...
We cannot kindle when we will The fire which in the heart resides; The spirit bloweth and is still, In ...
And the first grey of morning fill'd the east, And the fog rose out of the Oxus stream. But all ...
Goethe in Weimar sleeps, and Greece, Long since, saw Byron's struggle cease. But one such death remain'd to come; The ...
The world is full of women who'd tell me I should be ashamed of myself if they had the chance. ...
You're sad because you're sad. It's psychic. It's the age. It's chemical. Go see a shrink or take a pill, ...
Some clichty folks don't know the facts, posin' and preenin' and puttin' on acts, stretchin' their backs. They move into ...
The truest friends, how few they are. Still time, it seems, must take them far to God knows where and ...
they talk down through the centuries to us, and this we need more and more, the statues and paintings in ...
the final curtain on one of the longest running musicals ever, some people claim to have seen it over one ...
they found him walking along the freeway all red in front he had taken a rusty tin can and cut ...
They are building a house half a block down and I sit up here with the shades down listening to ...
he drank wine all night of the 28th, and he kept thinking of her: the way she walked and talked ...
Somebody said that it couldn't be done, But he with a chuckle replied That "maybe it couldn't," but he would ...
i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart) i am never without it (anywhere i go ...
Start where you stand and never mind the past, The past won't help you in beginning new, If you have ...
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