Le Trist Adieu (Eliza Acton Poems)
Oft have we parted Love! beforeWith prospects darkly shadow'd o'er,But never have we sunder'd yet,With such wild hopelessness as now,Since ...
Oft have we parted Love! beforeWith prospects darkly shadow'd o'er,But never have we sunder'd yet,With such wild hopelessness as now,Since ...
THOU surely art rash, with thy pinions of gold, To be flitting thus far from thy home in the ...
To charitable deeds I'm not addicted, For sentiment I do not care a prune,And yet I weep at poverty ...
OUR two devoted hearts were joined and boundBy streaming rays, with heaven's own light aglow;We read each other's souls like ...
So the time seems come at last, And the drums go rolling past, And above them in the sunlight Labour's ...
You brothers, who are mine, Poor people, near and far, Longing for every star, Dream of relief from pain, You, ...
Like Job, a righteous man we struggle to comprehend, to understand innocent suffering in this world and closer to home ...
Staring at the screen the computer watch the flash of images, messages of nothingness flickering bits of news with no ...
My neighbor was a biker, a pusher, a dog and wife beater. In bad dreams I killed him and once, ...
Search. Search. Seek. Seek. Cold. Cold. Clear. Clear. Sorrow. Sorrow. Pain. Pain. Hot flashes. Sudden chills. Stabbing pains. Slow agonies. ...
Kind of empty in the way it sees everything, the earth gets to its feet andsalutes the sky. More of ...
Who has not wanted, does not guess What plenty is.--Who has not groped In depths of doubt and hopelessness, Has ...
Deep into spring, winter is hanging on. Bitter and skillful in his hopelessness, he stays alive in every shady place, ...
we walk through a calligraphy of hats slicing off foreheads ace-deuce cocked, they slant, razor sharp, clean through imagination, our ...
All right, I was Welsh. Does it matter? I spoke a tongue that was passed on To me in the ...
O thou who from the mountain's height Roll'st down thy clouds with all their weight Of waters to old Niles ...
The man who cloaked his bitterness within This winding-sheet of puns and pleasantries, God never gave to look with common ...
I loved you, and I probably still do, And for a while the feeling may remain... But let my love ...
Gumtree in the city street, Hard bitumen around your feet, Rather you should be In the cool world of leafy ...
It seemed that out of the battle I escaped Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped Through granites which ...
People sit numbly at the counter waiting for breakfast or service. Today it's Hartford, Connecticut more than twenty-five years after ...
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