The Carver (Conrad Aiken Poem)
See, as the carver carves a rose, A wing, a toad, a serpent's eye, In cruel granite, to disclose The ...
See, as the carver carves a rose, A wing, a toad, a serpent's eye, In cruel granite, to disclose The ...
I. (Bread and Music) Music I heard with you was more than music, And bread I broke with you was ...
Per me si va ne la citt? dolente, per me si va ne l'etterno dolore, per me si va tra ...
When Winchester races first took their beginning It is said the good people forgot their old Saint Not applying at ...
I know if I find you I will have to leave the earth and go on out over the sea ...
Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea-- call ...
As Parmigianino did it, the right hand Bigger than the head, thrust at the viewer And swerving easily away, as ...
How changed is here each spot man makes or fills! In the two Hinkseys nothing keeps the same; The village ...
Tell me not in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream!— For the soul is dead that slumbers, And ...
O THOU, who in the heavens does dwell, Who, as it pleases best Thysel', Sends ane to heaven an' ten ...
THERE was three kings into the east, Three kings both great and high, And they hae sworn a solemn oath ...
There were three kings into the east, Three kings both great and high, An' they hae sworn a solemn oath ...
THE SIMPLE Bard, rough at the rustic plough, Learning his tuneful trade from ev'ry bough; The chanting linnet, or the ...
O saw ye bonnie Lesley As she gaed o'er the Border? She's gane, like Alexander, To spread her conquests farther. ...
MY father was a farmer upon the Carrick border, O, And carefully he bred me in decency and order, O; ...
SOME books are lies frae end to end, And some great lies were never penn'd: Ev'n ministers they hae been ...
I LEFT thee last, a child at heart, A woman scarce in years: I come to thee, a solemn corpse ...
When I attain to utter forth in verse Some inward thought, my soul throbs audibly Along my pulses, yearning to ...
What can I give thee back, O liberal And princely giver, who hast brought the gold And purple of thine ...
I Love me Sweet, with all thou art, Feeling, thinking, seeing; Love me in the lightest part, Love me in ...
I lift my heavy heart up solemnly, As once Electra her sepulchral urn, And, looking in thine eyes, I overturn ...
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