The High Priest (C J Dennis Poems)
Nay, why do foolish politicians strive To win a fleeting popularity?In vain, in vain, they jealously contrive To turn the ...
Nay, why do foolish politicians strive To win a fleeting popularity?In vain, in vain, they jealously contrive To turn the ...
1 Out of the night of lovelessness I call Thee, as, in a chill chamber where no rays ...
The Blue and the Gray collided one day In the future great town of Missouri, And if all that ...
I learnt to write to you in happier days, And every letter was a piece I chipped From off my ...
You might come here Sunday on a whim. Say your life broke down. The last good kiss you had was ...
My spirit will not haunt the mound Above my breast, But travel, memory-possessed, To where my tremulous being found Life ...
Each a separate star in the sky, a thread in the tapestry the gifts I feel called to share a ...
Just a few flakes drifting down, against a patina of white the world waiting for the storm all quiet, in ...
Before the first snowfall long after frost covering layering the lawn, the gardens Yellow remaining newborn black-eyed Susan growing in ...
Walking to the playground, yesterday afternoon after the change of the time on the clocks, fall back into winter, the ...
People, random strangers Cool stores Hot blacktop Eyes turn Crackle with energy, anticipation Furtive glances to the horizon, Instinctively knowing ...
People, random strangers Crackle with energy, anticipation Furtive glances to the horizon, Instinctively knowing Darkening sky Deep grays Strong edges ...
Layers of clouds grays and white living sky with rich visual texture Rippled screens of space like the flesh of ...
We were alone with our thoughts Warm breezes off the southerly ocean murmur of sea foam on a soft expanse ...
With lingering love she gazed at the dispersed Colors of dusk. It pleased her utterly To lose herself in the ...
About the size of an old-style dollar bill, American or Canadian, mostly the same whites, gray greens, and steel grays ...
Far from the Rappahannock, the silent Danube moves along toward the sea. The brown and green Nile rolls slowly Like ...
Much wine had passed, with grave discourse Of who fucks who, and who does worse (Such as you usually do ...
Once more the gate behind me falls; Once more before my face I see the moulder'd Abbey-walls, That stand within ...
'Perspective betrays with its dichotomy: train tracks always meet, not here, but only in the impossible mind's eye; horizons beat ...
From cold Norse caves or buccaneer Southern seas Oft come repenting tempests here to die; Bewailing old-time wrecks and robberies, ...
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