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7 Days on the Sea (May Swenson Poems)

Monday The world is a ball of water. See, it is round-sided. I move across its topside, upon the world, not in it. The boat ...

Wherefore (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)

I would not see, yet must behold The truth they preach in church and hall; And question so,--Is death then all, And life ...

Under The October Maples (James Russell Lowell Poems)

What mean these banners spread,These paths with royal redSo gaily carpeted?Comes there a prince to-day?Such footing were too fineFor feet ...

Shadows (John Freeman Poems)

The shadow of the lantern on the wall,The lantern hanging from the twisted beam,The eye that sees the lantern, shadow ...

The Defenders (John Drinkwater Poems)

His wage of rest at nightfall still He takes, who sixty years has knownOf ploughing over Cotsall hill And keeping trim the ...

Senlin: A Biography Pt. 01:His Dark Origins (Conrad Potter Aiken Poems)

1Senlin sits before us, and we see him. He smokes his pipe before us, and we hear him. Is he ...

The House Of Dust: Part 03: 11: (Conrad Potter Aiken Poems)

What shall we talk of? Li Po? Hokusai?You narrow your long dark eyes to fascinate me;You smile a little. . ...

On The Aeolian Harp (Elizabeth Bath Poems)

METHINKS I hear the band of saints above, In holy anthem join'd, their voices raise,Tuning their golden harps to ...

Prelude (Conrad Potter Aiken Poems)

As evening falls, And the yellow lights leap one by one Along high walls And along black streets that glisten ...

The House Of Dust: Part 03: 01: (Conrad Potter Aiken Poems)

As evening falls,And the yellow lights leap one by oneAlong high walls;And along black streets that glisten as if with ...

V (Tony Harrison Poem)

'My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words.' Arthur ...

The Bistro Styx (Rita Dove Poem)

She was thinner, with a mannered gauntness as she paused just inside the double glass doors to survey the room, ...

Crying to be written (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)

Dawn has reached the ridges to the north and a thin line of light chased the night west; it is ...

Bretton Wood (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)

It happened by Bretton Wood (although that wasn't it's real name) and I recall a clear, grey dawn and the ...

257. Ode on the Departed Regency Bill (Robert Burns Poem)

DAUGHTER of Chaos' doting years, Nurse of ten thousand hopes and fears, Whether thy airy, insubstantial shade (The rights of ...

The House Of Dust: Part 04: 03: Palimpsest: A Deceitful Portrait (Conrad Aiken Poem)

Well, as you say, we live for small horizons: We move in crowds, we flow and talk together, Seeing so ...

The House Of Dust: Part 03: 11: Conversation: Undertones (Conrad Aiken Poem)

What shall we talk of? Li Po? Hokusai? You narrow your long dark eyes to fascinate me; You smile a ...

The House Of Dust: Part 03: 01: As evening falls (Conrad Aiken Poem)

As evening falls, And the yellow lights leap one by one Along high walls; And along black streets that glisten ...

Senlin: His Dark Origins (Conrad Aiken Poem)

1 Senlin sits before us, and we see him. He smokes his pipe before us, and we hear him. Is ...

Senlin: His Futile Preoccupations (Conrad Aiken Poem)