America (Maurice Thompson Poems)
Low-hung in darkness, steeped in tyranny,The earth was but a prison-pen for man,When a swift impulse leaped from sea to ...
Low-hung in darkness, steeped in tyranny,The earth was but a prison-pen for man,When a swift impulse leaped from sea to ...
Lingo of birds was easier than lingo of peasants-they were elusive, though, the birds, for excellent reasons.He thought of Virgil, ...
Softly and humbly to the Gulf of ArabsThe convoys of dead sailors come;At night they sway and wander in the ...
Not long ago, when I was at a dinner,I heard a toast - and here I write it down."I had ...
Your nurse could only speak Italian,but after twenty minutes I could imagine your final week,and tears ran down my ...
Is it peace,Is it a philosopher's honeymoon, one findsOn the dump?-Wallace StevensOut of the cracks of cups and their handles, ...
I buried love and doomed myself to beIts monument. Above the recent graveUpon myself I carved a dozen lines,Beyond my ...
Numberless monumentsWithout inscriptions ...I carry your name, eternal love,In my heart.There are so many lives here,Scratched into stone -You sing ...
In that soft season, when descending show'rsCall forth the greens, and wake the rising flow'rs;When op'ning buds salute the welcome ...
Young Shechem all the night impatient lay;And sought with eager eyes the breaking day;With ardent longings waits the promis'd hour,And ...
You have obey'd, you WINDS, that must fulfill The Great Disposer's righteous Will; Throughout the Land, unlimited you flew, Nor ...
Three days I heard them grieve when I lay dead, (It was so strange to me that they should weep!) ...
Ebbs and flows the restless river In the city streetWhere the great nerve centres quiver, Where the pulses ...
There is a cliff, no matter where, Which softened by the agenciesOf rain, exposure to the air, And alternating thaw ...
In the corner of the living room was an album of unbearable photos,many meters high and infinite minutes old,over which ...
I Frindsbury, Kent, 1786 Bang! Bang! Tap! Tap-a-tap! Rap! All through the lead and silver Winter days, All through the ...
Vogelweid the Minnesinger, When he left this world of ours, Laid his body in the cloister, Under Wurtzburg's minster towers. ...
You have obey'd, you WINDS, that must fulfill The Great Disposer's righteous Will; Throughout the Land, unlimited you flew, Nor ...
Lingo of birds was easier than lingo of peasants- they were elusive, though, the birds, for excellent reasons. He thought ...
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