Ambulances (Philip Larkin Poem)
Closed like confessionals, they thread Loud noons of cities, giving back None of the glances they absorb. Light glossy grey, ...
Closed like confessionals, they thread Loud noons of cities, giving back None of the glances they absorb. Light glossy grey, ...
Who gives him the Bath? "I," said the wet, Rank-Jungle-sweat, "I'll give him the Bath!" Who'll sing the psalms? "We," ...
Full many a sinful notion Conceived of foreign powers Has come across the ocean To harm this land of ours; ...
NO city I to Rheims would e'er prefer: Of France the pride and honour I aver; The Holy Ampoule and ...
Cou'd our First Father, at his toilsome Plough, Thorns in his Path, and Labour on his Brow, Cloath'd only in ...
Venus, when her son was lost, Cried him up and down the coast, In hamlets, palaces, and parks, And told ...
Is not Love here as 'tis in other climes, And differeth it, as do the several nations? Or hath it ...
Send home my long stray'd eyes to me, Which O too long have dwelt on thee, Yet since there they ...
By our first strange and fatal interview, By all desires which thereof did ensue, By our long starving hopes, by ...
You know that Portrait in the Moon -- So tell me who 'tis like -- The very Brow -- the ...
While Asters -- On the Hill -- Their Everlasting fashions -- set -- And Covenant Gentians -- Frill! (Emily Dickinson)
There is a flower that Bees prefer -- And Butterflies -- desire -- To gain the Purple Democrat The Humming ...
I am ashamed -- I hide -- What right have I -- to be a Bride -- So late a ...
In Ebon Box, when years have flown To reverently peer, Wiping away the velvet dust Summers have sprinkled there! To ...
The only Ghost I ever saw Was dressed in Mechlin -- so -- He wore no sandal on his foot ...
I measure every Grief I meet With narrow, probing, Eyes -- I wonder if It weighs like Mine -- Or ...
BY QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR OF 'WAT TYLER' 'A Daniel come to judgment! ...
There's a palace in Florence, the world knows well, And a statue watches it from the square, And this story ...
There's a palace in Florence, the world knows well, And a statue watches it from the square, And this story ...
I. Said Abner, ``At last thou art come! Ere I tell, ere thou speak, ``Kiss my cheek, wish me well!'' ...
I. I said---Then, dearest, since 'tis so, Since now at length my fate I know, Since nothing all my love ...
REVERED defender of beauteous Stuart, Of Stuart, a name once respected; A name, which to love was the mark of ...
Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers, Ere the sorrow comes with years? They are leaning their young ...
Men fight all shapes and sizes as the racing horses run, And no man knows his courage till he stands ...
'Tis hard to say, if greater Want of Skill Appear in Writing or in Judging ill, But, of the two, ...
A woman is a foreign land, Of which, though there he settle young, A man will ne'er quite understand The ...
Ambition I am the maid of the lustrous eyes Of great fruition, Whom the sons of men that are over-wise ...
Love is enough: ho ye who seek saving, Go no further; come hither; there have been who have found it, ...
A bear, however hard he tries, Grows tubby without exercise. Our Teddy Bear is short and fat, Which is not ...
FOR A VERY LITTLE GIRL, NOT A YEAR OLD. CATHARINE FRAZEE WAKEFIELD. The sun gives not directly The coal, the ...
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