The Wedding That Never Was (Billy Bennett Poems)
The clock in the steeple struck fourteenThe day that the wedding was fixedThe couple had gone on their honeymoon firstSo ...
The clock in the steeple struck fourteenThe day that the wedding was fixedThe couple had gone on their honeymoon firstSo ...
Here is the tale of Carrousel, The barber of Meridian Street.He cut, and coiffed, and shaved so ...
The little church of Long Ago, where as a boy I satWith mother in the family pew and fumbled with ...
A TOAST to the Fools! Pierrot, Pantaloon, Harlequin, Clown, Merry-Andrew, Buffoon -- Touchstone and Triboulet -- all of the tribe. ...
Child of a myriad varied voices calling O'er countless leagues of space in divers tongues,Tho' captious critics view your ways ...
Part First Frau Concert-Meister Altgelt shut the door. A storm was rising, heavy gusts of wind Swirled through the trees, ...
The little biplane that has the river-meadow for landing-field And carries passengers brief rides, Buzzed overhead on the tender blue ...
I have been thinking, praying too often these last two days the throw-away expletive His counsel, this officer of the ...
The Rose did caper on her cheek -- Her Bodice rose and fell -- Her pretty speech -- like drunken ...
Poetry, I found you where at last they chained and bound you; with devices all around you to torture and ...
In a blue series towards his sleepy eyes they slid like wonder, women tall & small, of every shape & ...
I What shall I do with this absurdity - O heart, O troubled heart - this caricature, Decrepit age that ...
A cursing rogue with a merry face, A bundle of rags upon a crutch, Stumbled upon that windy place Called ...
One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound ...
THE SENTENCE Perhaps I can make it plain by analogy. Imagine a machine, not yet assembled, Each part being quite ...
Three score and ten, the psalmist saith, And half my course is well-nigh run; I've had my flout at dusty ...
On this festive first of May, Wending wistfully my way Three sad sights I saw today. The first was such ...
She lay like a saint on her copper couch; Like an angel asleep she lay, In the stare of the ...
They met, and overwhelming her distrust With penitence, he praised away her fear; They married, and Job gave him half ...
Bound to your bookseller, leap to your library, Deluge your dealer with bakshish and bribary, Lean on the counter and ...
I, the scourge-wielder, balance-wrecker, Smiter with whips and swords; I, hater of the breakers of the law; I, legalist, inexorable ...
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