THE SUCCESSION OF THE FOUR SWEET MONTHS (Robert Herrick Poem)
First, April, she with mellow showers Opens the way for early flowers; Then after her comes smiling May, In a ...
First, April, she with mellow showers Opens the way for early flowers; Then after her comes smiling May, In a ...
He enters, and mute on the edge of a chair Sits a thin-faced lady, a stranger there, A type of ...
I He bends his travel-tarnished feet To where she wastes in clay: From day-dawn until eve he fares Along the ...
I imagine this midnight moment's forest: Something else is alive Beside the clock's loneliness And this blank page where my ...
OLD age is courteous--no one more: For time after time he knocks at the door, But nobody says, "Walk in, ...
I AM the bard known far and wide, The travell'd rat-catcher beside; A man most needful to this town, So ...
A mason came forth and said, "Speak to us of Houses." And he answered and said: Build of your imaginings ...
I What new element before us unborn in nature? Is there a new thing under the Sun? At last inquisitive ...
As ancient as ourselves yearning for relationship the Spirit speaking within us drawing us back to God How can we ...
Not the food what enters none of these unclean all of these worthy Our hearts, our tongues the words of ...
God loves us as we are, grace Christ came, into the world to repair our brokenness our torn lives, splintered ...
They came out of storage, off the rack around my neck, starting today, thirteen, maybe fourteen ties (or at least ...
I met a lady from the South who said (You won't believe she said it, but she said it): "None ...
And the trees about me, Let them be dry and leafless; let the rocks Groan with continual surges; and behind ...
It's coming -- the postponeless Creature -- It gains the Block -- and now -- it gains the Door -- ...
If any sink, assure that this, now standing -- Failed like Themselves -- and conscious that it rose -- Grew ...
Come slowly -- Eden! Lips unused to Thee -- Bashful -- sip thy Jessamines -- As the fainting Bee -- ...
Has life ever dumped you in a heap? Perhaps you've found self belief so strongly reinforcing that doubt never enters ...
He wrapped them carefully, neatly in costly green silk. Roses of ruby, lilies of pearl, violets of amethyst. As he ...
The poet Phernazis is composing the important part of his epic poem. How Darius, son of Hystaspes, assumed the kingdom ...
The fragrance of the pink lotus fails, the jade mat hints of autumn. Softly I unfasten my silk cloak, Who ...
Sharp was the frost, the wind was high And sparkling stars bedeckt the sky Sly Dick in arts of cunning ...
1) Sleeping birds, lead me, soft birds, be me inside this black room, back of the white moon. In the ...
PART I 'Tis the middle of night by the castle clock And the owls have awakened the crowing cock; Tu-whit!- ...
A hotel in whose ledgers departures are more prominent than arrivals. With wet Koh-i-noors the October rain strokes what's left ...
ARRANGING long-locked drawers and shelves Of cabinets, shut up for years, What a strange task we've set ourselves ! How ...
The Grower of Trees, the gardener, the man born to farming, whose hands reach into the ground and sprout to ...
I. All I believed is true! I am able yet All I want, to get By a method as strange ...
From narrow provinces of fish and bread and tea, home of the long tides where the bay leaves the sea ...
She slides over the hot upholstery of her mother's car, this schoolgirl of fifteen who loves humming & swaying with ...
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