Cold in the North … (Li Ho Poems)
Black sheen on one,purpl' on each other side.The Yellow Stream - all ice,so fish and dragon died.Tree barks, three foot ...
Black sheen on one,purpl' on each other side.The Yellow Stream - all ice,so fish and dragon died.Tree barks, three foot ...
IFlat as to an eagle's eye,Earth hung under Attila.Sign for carnage gave he none.In the peace of his disdain,Sun and ...
Dawn from the Foretop! Dawn from the Barrel! A scurry of feet with a roar overhead;The master-watch wildly pointing to ...
Aloft upon an old basaltic crag,Which, scalped by keen winds that defend the Pole,Gazes with dead face on the seas ...
WE shipped him at the Sandwich Isles --'Fore God, he's mostly nose! We've fetched him full eight thousand miles To ...
Where the short-legged EsquimauxWaddle in the ice and snow,And the playful Polar bearNips the hunter unaware;Where by day they track ...
All in the slime of the stagnant Arm, the mouldering slips beside,Where dark as sin slinks out and in the ...
Oh, a ship in the Tropics, a-foaming along, With every stitch drawing, the Trade blowing strong, The white caps around ...
IWe gave them at the harbour every token- The ritual of the guns, and at the mast The ...
Evening is part of the jig-saw truth of her,ply-wood ply-flesh, her insolent replyblinding the ace with a straight shot to ...
In the high halls of morning, Where the red dawnlights glow,On the threshold of sunrise Four buglers stand arow,In the ...
IMPLACABLE as are thy arctic floes; Grim and gigantic as thy mountain height; Girt with thy pines for ...
June 22, 1611 THE SHALLOP ON HUDSON BAY One sail in sight upon the lonely sea And only one, God ...
The fairest Home I ever knew Was founded in an Hour By Parties also that I knew A spider and ...
I watched the winter light die from the bridge, the sky a sinking empire's battleship, ice floes' jagged edges clink ...
I have questioned the loyalty of rivers in winter, their yearnings for oceans obstructed, indecisive meandering clogged by ice floes ...
Far from the Rappahannock, the silent Danube moves along toward the sea. The brown and green Nile rolls slowly Like ...
The last leaves fell like notes from a piano and left their ovals echoing in the ear; with gawky music ...
AMERICA always! Always our own feuillage! Always Florida's green peninsula! Always the priceless delta of Louisiana! Always the cotton-fields of ...
We sleep in the sleep of ages, the bleak, barbarian pines; The gray moss drapes us like sages, and closer ...
At dawn of day the white land lay all gruesome-like and grim, When Bill Mc'Gee he says to me: "We've ...
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