The Drunken Fisherman (Robert Lowell Poem)
Wallowing in this bloody sty, I cast for fish that pleased my eye (Truly Jehovah's bow suspends No pots of ...
Wallowing in this bloody sty, I cast for fish that pleased my eye (Truly Jehovah's bow suspends No pots of ...
Only teaching on Tuesdays, book-worming in pajamas fresh from the washer each morning, I hog a whole house on Boston's ...
(For Alden March) With drooping sail and pennant That never a wind may reach, They float in sunless waters Beside ...
1 On my way home from school up tribal Providence Hill past the Academy ballpark where I could never hope ...
The earth is full of anger, The seas are dark with wrath, The Nations in their harness Go up against ...
Runs falls rises stumbles on from darkness into darkness and the darkness thicketed with shapes of terror and the hunters ...
I was here from the moment of the Beginning, and here I am still. And I shall remain here until ...
A prophet answering the direct call to action by the Lord God Jehovah to bring truth to the people foretell ...
The reticent volcano keeps His never slumbering plan -- Confided are his projects pink To no precarious man. If nature ...
No Other can reduce Our mortal Consequence Like the remembering it be nought A Period from hence But Contemplation for ...
I meant to have but modest needs -- Such as Content -- and Heaven -- Within my income -- these ...
Sunset at Night -- is natural -- But Sunset on the Dawn Reverses Nature -- Master -- So Midnight's -- ...
(Ezekiel, xlviii.35) As birds their infant brood protect, And spread their wings to shelter them, Thus saith the Lord to ...
My song shall bless the Lord of all, My praise shall climb to His abode; Thee, Saviour, by that name ...
ALONG the banks where Babel's current flows Our captive bands in deep despondence stray'd, While Zion's fall in sad remembrance ...
I've quenched my lamp, I struck it in that start Which every limb convulsed, I heard it fall The crash ...
Maskt as honours, insult like behaving missiles homes. I bow, & grunt 'Thank you. I'm glad you could come so ...
The Saviour looked on Peter. Ay, no word, No gesture of reproach; the Heavens serene Though heavy with armed justice, ...
If it is true, what the Prophets write, That the heathen gods are all stocks and stones, Shall we, for ...
Truly My Satan thou art but a Dunce And dost not know the Garment from the Man Every Harlot was ...
The Argument. Rintrah roars & shakes his fires in the burdend air; Hungry clouds swag on the deep Once meek, ...
Descend from Heaven, Urania, by that name If rightly thou art called, whose voice divine Following, above the Olympian hill ...
Done Aug. 8. 1653. Terzetti. Why do the Gentiles tumult, and the Nations Muse a vain thing, the Kings of ...
Aug. 14. 1653. O Jehovah our Lord how wondrous great And glorious is thy name through all the earth? So ...
Aug. 12. 1653. Jehovah to my words give ear My meditation waigh The voyce of my complaining hear My King ...
Aug. 10. 1653. Answer me when I call God of my righteousness; In straights and in distress Thou didst me ...
Aug. 14. 1653. Upon The Words Of Chush The Benjamite Against Him. Lord my God to thee I flie Save ...
Aug. 9. When He Fled From Absalom. Lord how many are my foes How many those That in arms against ...
Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and ...
Star of my heart, I follow from afar. Sweet Love on high, lead on where shepherds are, Where Time is ...
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