Rough Country (Dana Gioia Poems)
Give me a landscape made of obstacles,of steep hills and jutting glacial rock,where the low-running streams are quick to floodthe ...
Give me a landscape made of obstacles,of steep hills and jutting glacial rock,where the low-running streams are quick to floodthe ...
Ah, you should see Cynddylan on a tractor.Gone the old look that yoked him to the soil,He's a new man ...
Fytte IBy Wood and Wold"Beneath the greenwood bough." — W. Scott.Lightly the breath of the spring wind blows, Though ...
THE dauntless youth, with heart elate,Once more essays his chequered fate.As perils new he boldly tries,Behold a gathering ...
THE REG'LAR LARKThe Reg'lar Lark's a very gay old Bird;At sunrise often may his voice be heardAs jauntily he wends ...
Now shift the blanket pad before your saddle back you fling, And draw your cinch up tighter till the sweat ...
I Again the larkspur, Heavenly blue in my garden. They, at least, unchanged. II How have I ...
If ever the time comes for me to dieTake a white birchwood table out there to the river,Set it up ...
I, born in WeimarOf a mother who was FrenchAnd German father, a most learned professor,Orphaned at fourteen years,Became a dancer, ...
he summer nests uncovered by autumn wind,Some torn, others dislodged, all dark,Everyone sees them: low or high in tree,Or hedge, ...
Can it be the sun descending O'er the level plain of water? Or the Red Swan floating, flying, Wounded by ...
Sing, O Song of Hiawatha, Of the happy days that followed, In the land of the Ojibways, In the pleasant ...
Of all the opry-houses then obtaining in the West The one which Milton Tootle owned was, by all odds, the ...
By my Window have I for Scenery Just a Sea -- with a Stem -- If the Bird and the ...
THE groundflame of the crocus breaks the mould, Fair Spring slides hither o'er the Southern sea, Wavers on her thin ...
I, born in Weimar Of a mother who was French And German father, a most learned professor, Orphaned at fourteen ...
Doubt no more that Oberon- Never doubt that Pan Lived, and played a reed, and ran After nymphs in a ...
I bought a dollar and a half's worth of small red potatoes, took them home, boiled them in their jackets ...
A blue jay poses on a stake meant to support an apple tree newly planted. A strong wind on this ...
From cold Norse caves or buccaneer Southern seas Oft come repenting tempests here to die; Bewailing old-time wrecks and robberies, ...
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