Merlin: A Poem (Jane Brereton Poems)
1Illustrious Queen! The loyal Zeal excuse,The fond Ambition, of a British Muse,Who wou'd, in Merlin's Praise, attempt to soar;And in ...
1Illustrious Queen! The loyal Zeal excuse,The fond Ambition, of a British Muse,Who wou'd, in Merlin's Praise, attempt to soar;And in ...
Well; 'tis as Bickerstaff has guess'd, Though we all took it for a jest: Partridge is dead; nay more, he died Ere he ...
<i>1. The Enigma of Arrival</i>We are nude beneath our costumesas in the false myths we have been forcedto memorizeand there ...
Whenas the nightingale chanted her vespers,And the wild forester couched on the ground,Venus invited me in th' evening whispersUnto a ...
Many their language labour to correct, And for to speake in the best dialect, But few, or none contend Their lives t'amend. Logicke, the ...
Without knowing my number,enclosed by walls and borders,I walk around with a prisoner's moonand perpetual shadow chained to my ankle.Living ...
When I was young, when I was young!Were you ever young, Prytherch, a rich farmer:Cows in the byre, sheep in ...
1. North Carolina, Washington and Baltimore. 2. An auto going south, and words in a room, And outside, pink of ...
Cats walk the floor at midnight; that enemy of fog,The moon, wraps the bedpost in receding stillness; sleepCollects all weary ...
ALAS, for the blight of my fancies! Alas, for the fall of my pride! I planned, in my girlish romances, ...
Shall Sadnesse perswade me never to sing But leave unto Syrens that excellent thing, No that may not be, ...
Close your eyes, my love, let me make you blind; They have taught you to see Only a mean arithmetic ...
Snow-covered mountains, ancient monuments, a north wind that nods to us, a thought that flows, images imbued with hymns of ...
Adam asked About Dad and what he did Saturday night. An interest In his family In a grandfather Gone since ...
What does it mean that his first friend was an imaginary friend? How did that fact shape his world and ...
Best Witchcraft is Geometry To the magician's mind -- His ordinary acts are feats To thinking of mankind. (Emily Dickinson)
I take the long walk up the staircase to my secret room. Today's big news: they found Amelia Earhart's shoe, ...
I take the long walk up the staircase to my secret room. Today's big news: they found Amelia Earhart's shoe, ...
When Westwell Downes I gan to tread, Where cleanely wynds the greene did sweepe, Methought a landskipp there was spread, ...
What can you say about the Mets down three games to none one run down with six outs to go ...
This institution, perhaps one should say enterprise out of respect for which one says one need not change one's mind ...
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