University (Karl Shapiro Poems)
To hurt the Negro and avoid the JewIs the curriculum. In mid-SeptemberThe entering boys, identified by hats,Wander in a maze ...
To hurt the Negro and avoid the JewIs the curriculum. In mid-SeptemberThe entering boys, identified by hats,Wander in a maze ...
"I love to gaze at even-tide."I.I love to gaze at even-tideUpon the still and mighty deep,And see the sun's reflecting ...
I am in front of this feminine landLike a child in front of the fireSmiling vaguely with tears in my ...
The Old Year's gone awayTo nothingness and night:We cannot find him all the dayNor hear him in the night:He left ...
'Attar began The Conference of the Birds (Mantiq al-tair) with an invocation praising the holy Creator in which he suggested ...
Oh, them days on Red Hoss Mountain, when the skies wuz fair 'nd blue,When the money flowed like likker, 'nd ...
Wail, winds of summer, as ye sweep The arching skies; O, let your echoes ...
Interesting that I have to live with my skeleton. It stands, prepared to emerge, and I carry it with me-this ...
Trouble brews along the border for the word has got around That blokes an' coves an' coots must mind their ...
The sea still plunges where as naked boysWe dared the currents and the racing tidesThat stamped red weals of fury ...
Either at my friend's daughter's sixteen-year-old body dumped on the morgue slab, T-shirt stuck fast to one ripped breast I ...
Yesterday I drew myself from the noisome throngs and proceeded into the field until I reached a knoll upon which ...
God's plan unfolding in the Jordan River Christ coming to John to be baptized in the water The prophecies coming ...
The tempter, the betrayer the powerful in their houses bringing the prophecy to fulfillment evil stalked the night The Messiah, ...
At last, to be identified! At last, the lamps upon thy side The rest of Life to see! Past Midnight! ...
My Life had stood -- a Loaded Gun -- In Corners -- till a Day The Owner passed -- identified ...
THE PROLOGUE. WHEN folk had laughed all at this nice case Of Absolon and Hendy Nicholas, Diverse folk diversely they ...
ON Cessnock banks a lassie dwells; Could I describe her shape and mein; Our lasses a' she far excels, An' ...
Per me si va ne la citt? dolente, per me si va ne l'etterno dolore, per me si va tra ...
He took a frayed hat from his head, And "Peace on Earth" was what he said. "A morsel out of ...
We were supposed to do a job in Italy and, full of our feeling for ourselves (our sense of being ...
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