Passing Through (Stanley Kunitz Poem)
Nobody in the widow's household ever celebrated anniversaries. In the secrecy of my room I would not admit I cared ...
Nobody in the widow's household ever celebrated anniversaries. In the secrecy of my room I would not admit I cared ...
O Sovereign power of love! O grief! O balm! All records, saving thine, come cool, and calm, And shadowy, through ...
now pay attention (said the teacher) and look up here the children looked up this is william shakespeare four centuries ...
A village Chorus is supposed to be assembled, and about to commence its festive procession. [Written for the birthday of ...
IN search of prey once raised his pinions An eaglet; A huntsman's arrow came, and reft His right wing of ...
Having a wheel and four legs of its own Has never availed the cumbersome grindstone To get it anywhere that ...
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant -- Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The ...
While you walk the water's edge, turning over concepts I can't envision, the honking buoy serves notice that at any ...
A green and silent spot, amid the hills, A small and silent dell ! O'er stiller place No singing sky-lark ...
The First Voice HE trilled a carol fresh and free, He laughed aloud for very glee: There came a breeze ...
Bhaskar Roy Barman The scene lacked for the manifestation characteristic of a scene. though the scene was promised a revealing ...
Every month or so, Sundays, we walked the line, The limit and the boundary. Past the sweet gum Superb above ...
Here, where love's stuff is body, arm and side Are stabbing-sweet 'gainst chair and lamp and wall. In every touch ...
What is the boy now, who has lost his ball, What, what is he to do? I saw it go ...
either peace or happiness, let it enfold you when i was a young man I felt these things were dumb,unsophisticated. ...
I am too big. Too big by far. Pity me. My eyes bulge and hurt. They are my one great ...
You know how it is waking from a dream certain you can fly and that someone, long gone, returned and ...
I want to beg you, as much as I can, to be patient toward all that is unresolved in your ...
Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels' hierarchies? and even if one of them suddenly pressed ...
When yellow leaves the sky they pipe it to the houses to go on making red and warm and floral ...
Is it true, Spoon River, That in the hall-way of the New Court House There is a tablet of bronze ...
You never understood, O unknown one, Why it was I repaid Your devoted friendship and delicate ministrations First with diminished ...
There is something about Death Like love itself! If with some one with whom you have known passion, And the ...
I was sick, but more than that, I was mad At the crooked police, and the crooked game of life. ...
I. My face resembles your face less and less each day. When I was young no one mistook whose child ...
--The Carpathian Frontier, October, 1968 --for my brother Once, in a foreign country, I was suddenly ill. I was driving ...
Still sober, César Vallejo comes home and finds a black ribbon around the apartment building covering the front door. He ...
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