The Hermit Goes Up Attic (Maxine Kumin Poem)
Up attic, Lucas Harrison, God rest his frugal bones, once kept a tidy account by knifecut of some long-gone harvest. ...
Up attic, Lucas Harrison, God rest his frugal bones, once kept a tidy account by knifecut of some long-gone harvest. ...
the paiute indians had the bird sussed a humming bird (loaded with seeds) set out to see beyond the sun ...
18 if you want a revolution attack symbols not systems - the simple forms that (blithely) give the truth away ...
Prate, ye who will, of so-called charms you find across the sea-- The land of stoves and sunshine is good ...
Give me truths, For I am weary of the surfaces, And die of inanition. If I knew Only the herbs ...
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
Safe Despair it is that raves -- Agony is frugal. Puts itself severe away For its own perusal. Garrisoned no ...
Paradise is that old mansion Many owned before -- Occupied by each an instant Then reversed the Door -- Bliss ...
Of Brussels -- it was not -- Of Kidderminster? Nay -- The Winds did buy it of the Woods -- ...
It's thoughts -- and just One Heart -- And Old Sunshine -- about -- Make frugal -- Ones -- Content ...
I lost a World -- the other day! Has Anybody found? You'll know it by the Row of Stars Around ...
'Twas fighting for his Life he was -- That sort accomplish well -- The Ordnance of Vitality Is frugal of ...
I fear a Man of frugal Speech -- I fear a Silent Man -- Haranguer -- I can overtake -- ...
There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands away Nor any Coursers like a Page Of prancing ...
I had a guinea golden -- I lost it in the sand -- And tho' the sum was simple And ...
It was the days of the slow roll, times when we dextrously dressed our hand-rolled cigarettes with a dearth of ...
We are the vagabonds of time, And rove the yellow autumn days, When all the roads are gray with rime ...
In a cafe, once more I heard Your voice - those sparse and frugal notes. Do they not say that ...
Here among long-discarded cassocks, Damp stools, and half-split open hassocks, Here where the vicar never looks I nibble through old ...
MY lov'd, my honour'd, much respected friend! No mercenary bard his homage pays; With honest pride, I scorn each selfish ...
THOU whom chance may hither lead, Be thou clad in russet weed, Be thou deckt in silken stole, Grave these ...
THE SIMPLE Bard, rough at the rustic plough, Learning his tuneful trade from ev'ry bough; The chanting linnet, or the ...
Shut, shut the door, good John! fatigu'd, I said, Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The dog-star ...
Ne Rubeam, Pingui donatus Munere (Horace, Epistles II.i.267) While you, great patron of mankind, sustain The balanc'd world, and open ...
IN tattered robes that hoard a glittering trace Of bygone colours, broidered to the knee, Behold her, daughter of a ...
How can you, my Lord, thus delight to torment all The Peers of realm about cheapening their corn, When you ...
Not with libations, but with shouts and laughter We drenched the altars of Love's sacred grove, Shaking to earth green ...
Now Morn, her rosy steps in the eastern clime Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl, When Adam waked, so ...
The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he a while Thought him still speaking, ...
Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown ...
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