Zeroing In (Denise Levertov Poem)
"I am a landscape," he said, "a landscape and a person walking in that landscape. There are daunting cliffs there, ...
"I am a landscape," he said, "a landscape and a person walking in that landscape. There are daunting cliffs there, ...
1 The stout poet tiptoes On the lawn. Surprisingly limber In his thick sweater Like a middle-age burglar. Is the ...
For things we never mention, For Art misunderstood -- For excellent intention That did not turn to good; From ancient ...
'Twas in the prime of summer-time An evening calm and cool, And four-and-twenty happy boys Came bounding out of school: ...
Make haste away, and let one be A friendly patron unto thee; Lest, rapt from hence, I see thee lie ...
O masks and metamorphoses of Ahab, Native Son I The icy evil that struck his father down and ravished his ...
The tempest calmed after bending the branches of the trees and leaning heavily upon the grain in the field. The ...
And a poet said, "Speak to us of Beauty." Where shall you seek beauty, and how shall you find her ...
Then one of the judges of the city stood forth and said, "Speak to us of Crime and Punishment." And ...
Blandly mother takes him strolling by railroad and by river --he's the son of the absconded hot rod angel-- and ...
The wisdom of nature the choice of natural selection so much at a young age to comprehend, hard to fully ...
The friends rightly named of the paralytic carried to where Jesus was not stopped by the barrier taking it on ...
Stopping along his way to care for the injured stranger Healing his immediate wounds Carrying him to the inn to ...
With fireworks, parades, with speeches we honor them, each year remembering them, for what they gave their lives for freedom ...
Hushed service sanctuary in prayer people sharing, concerns raised speaking mike passed Ann holds her hand up to share a ...
Under General Greene, in South Carolina, who fell in the action of September 8, 1781 AT Eutaw Springs the valiant ...
TO you, my friends, allow me to detail, The feats of monks in Catalonia's vale, Where oft the holy fathers ...
A CERTAIN pious rector (John his name), But little preached, except when vintage came; And then no preparation he required ...
IN ev'ry age, at Naples, we are told, Intrigue and gallantry reign uncontrolled; With beauteous objects in abundance blessed. No ...
Give me truths, For I am weary of the surfaces, And die of inanition. If I knew Only the herbs ...
Of all our antic sights and pageantry Which English idiots run in crowds to see, The Polish Medal bears the ...
They came in masted wooden ships across an unindentured sea and cast their lot in ocean swells to chance at ...
See the flying French depart Like the bees of Bonaparte, Swarming up with a most venomous vitality. Over Baden and ...
To the tune of "Telling My Most Intimate Feelings" When night comes, I am so flushed with wine, I undo ...
(Judges, vi.25) Jesus! whose blood so freely stream'd To satisfy the law's demand; By Thee from guilt and wrath redeem'd, ...
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
WHEN Nature her great master-piece design'd, And fram'd her last, best work, the human mind, Her eye intent on all ...
NO Spartan tube, no Attic shell, No lyre Æolian I awake; 'Tis liberty's bold note I swell, Thy harp, Columbia, ...
HERE Stuarts once in glory reigned, And laws for Scotland's weal ordained; But now unroof'd their palace stands, Their sceptre's ...
AFAR 1 the illustrious Exile roams, Whom kingdoms on this day should hail; An inmate in the casual shed, On ...
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