British Georgics. August (James Grahame Poems)
Intense the viewless flood of heat descendsOn hill, and dale, and wood, and tangled brake,Where, to the chirping grasshopper, the ...
Intense the viewless flood of heat descendsOn hill, and dale, and wood, and tangled brake,Where, to the chirping grasshopper, the ...
AN ACADEMIC POEM1829-1879Read at the Commencement Dinner of the Alumni of HarvardUniversity, June 25, 1879.WHILE fond, sad memories all around ...
One was a bay cowhorse from Piedra & the other was a washed out palominoAnd both stood at the rail ...
Far, far below, oh, far below,Where sulphurous lightnings flash and glow,Where blasting, bellowing thunders roarWith rending crash—dark Stygian shore;Black gulf ...
"Avaunt, away! dread shapes of hate and fearThat hover round me," moan'd the dying Year:"Dark treason, superstition, and misrule!Man, 'neath ...
The woman with jewels sits in the cafe,Spraying light like a fountain.Diamonds glitter on her bulbous fingersAnd on her arms, ...
I saw a man this morning Who did not wish to die:I ask, and cannot answer, If otherwise wish I.Fair broke the ...
While shepherds watched their flocks by nightAll seated on the ground,A high explosive shell came downAnd mutton rained around. (Hector ...
England, amid thy great in this great time One man, white-haired, with misty, flashing eyesLooms from the rest, in his ...
Now it was clear to every ShadeThat some great wonder was before them,As Tom upon the palisadeEmptied, as fast as ...
Through all the moving thoroughfares And in the contending marts of trade; Within the babbling magazines and Even as I ...
By Edward Leary. There was an old fellow of Peterhouse, Who said, "You could not find a neater ...
SUN, dark sunSun of black void heatSun of the torrid mid-day's horrific darkness.Behold my hair twisting and going black.Behold my ...
This message hastens lest we both go downScattered, with no character, to death;Death is untutored, with an ignorant frownFor precious ...
Quickly, at once without any delay the urgency of this message the coming of Christ His work important now handed ...
Light, diffused, piercing the dark fireworks, crescendo turning the night to day explosive, glorious So is God's love manifested in ...
Light, diffused, piercing the dark fireworks, crescendo turning the night to day explosive, glorious January 29, 2008 (Raymond A. Foss)
Were I not a patriot, which of course I am, I would explain just how the term remains a sticking ...
...Preamble A rough draft for an ars poetica . . . . . . . Let's get our dreams unstuck ...
An imaginary composer.] I. Hist, but a word, fair and soft! Forth and be judged, Master Hugues! Answer the question ...
Ma tried to wash her garden slacks but couldn't get 'em clean And so she thought she'd soak 'em in ...
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