Behind the Arras (Bliss Carman Poem)
I like the old house tolerably well, Where I must dwell Like a familiar gnome; And yet I never shall ...
I like the old house tolerably well, Where I must dwell Like a familiar gnome; And yet I never shall ...
White founts falling in the Courts of the sun, And the Soldan of Byzantium is smiling as they run; There ...
A vagueness comes over everything, as though proving color and contour alike dispensable: the lighthouse extinct, the islands' spruce-tips drunk ...
While you walk the water's edge, turning over concepts I can't envision, the honking buoy serves notice that at any ...
Have pity ! show no pity ! Those eyes that send such shivers Into my ...
Have pity ! show no pity ! Those eyes that send such shivers Into my ...
The First Voice HE trilled a carol fresh and free, He laughed aloud for very glee: There came a breeze ...
Every month or so, Sundays, we walked the line, The limit and the boundary. Past the sweet gum Superb above ...
There is a meadow in Sweden where I lie smitten, eyes stained with clouds' white ins and outs. And about ...
SHE will not sleep, for fear of dreams, But, rising, quits her restless bed, And walks where some beclouded beams ...
In the dungeon-crypts, idly did I stray, Reckless of the lives wasting there away; "Draw the ponderous bars! open, Warder ...
Men loved wholly beyond wisdom Have the staff without the banner. Like a fire in a dry thicket Rising within ...
This harbour was made by art and force. And called Kingstown and afterwards Dun Laoghaire. And holds the sea behind ...
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
The taxi makes the vegetables fly. 'Dozo kudasai,' I have him wait. Past the bright lake up into the temple, ...
Among these latter busts we count by scores, Half-emperors and quarter-emperors, Each with his bay-leaf fillet, loose-thonged vest, Loricand low-browed ...
See, as the carver carves a rose, A wing, a toad, a serpent's eye, In cruel granite, to disclose The ...
And the first grey of morning fill'd the east, And the fog rose out of the Oxus stream. But all ...
My daughter plays on the floor with plastic letters, red, blue & hard yellow, learning how to spell, spelling, how ...
ASK why God made the gem so small? And why so huge the granite?- Because God meant mankind should set ...
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