Einstein (Archibald MacLeish Poems)
"Standing between the sun and moon preservesA certain secrecy. Or seems to keepSomething inviolate if only thatHis father was an ...
"Standing between the sun and moon preservesA certain secrecy. Or seems to keepSomething inviolate if only thatHis father was an ...
BREAK, long wave, below my feet! Wind and meet, Sea-streams that the moon hath shaken! From the shingle white and ...
O Spring, I know thee! Seek for sweet surpriseIn the young children's eyes.But I have learnt the years, and know ...
FIRST mention that land where the Nile, overflowing,Spreads beauty, and health, and fertility round,Then think of that region, where torrid ...
(From the translation by Aubrey Beardsley)Carmen CIPast towns, states, deserts, hills and rivers borneBy the first plane, brother, I've come ...
OUTSIDE the hedge of rosesThat walls my garden round,And many a flower encloses,Lies fresh unfurrowed ground.I have not delved nor ...
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must ...
Some, too fragile for winter winds The thoughtful grave encloses -- Tenderly tucking them in from frost Before their feet ...
A Shade upon the mind there passes As when on Noon A Cloud the mighty Sun encloses Remembering That some ...
On an ebony bed decorated with coral eagles, sound asleep lies Nero -- unconscious, quiet, and blissful; thriving in the ...
They haven't got no noses, The fallen sons of Eve; Even the smell of roses Is not what they supposes; ...
S. Patrick. You who are bent, and bald, and blind, With a heavy heart and a wandering mind, Have known ...
1 EARTH, round, rolling, compact-suns, moons, animals-all these are words to be said; Watery, vegetable, sauroid advances-beings, premonitions, lispings of ...
1 WEAPON, shapely, naked, wan! Head from the mother's bowels drawn! Wooded flesh and metal bone! limb only one, and ...
1 I SING the Body electric; The armies of those I love engirth me, and I engirth them; They will ...
1 I WANDER all night in my vision, Stepping with light feet, swiftly and noiselessly stepping and stopping, Bending with ...
I hid my heart in a nest of roses, Out of the sun's way, hidden apart; In a softer bed ...
IN a coign of the cliff between lowland and highland, At the sea-down's edge between windward and lee, Walled round ...
From the depths of the green garden-closes Where the summer in darkness dozes Till autumn pluck from his hand An ...
FROM off a hill whose concave womb reworded A plaintful story from a sistering vale, My spirits to attend this ...
Believe me, this was true last night, Tho' it is false to-day. -- A.M.F. Robinson. A fair dream to my ...
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