Flotsam (Lola Ridge Poems)
Crass rays streaming from the vestibules;Cafes glittering like jeweled teeth;High-flung signsBlinking yellow phosphorescent eyes;Girls in blackCircling monotonouslyAbout the orange lights…Nothing ...
Crass rays streaming from the vestibules;Cafes glittering like jeweled teeth;High-flung signsBlinking yellow phosphorescent eyes;Girls in blackCircling monotonouslyAbout the orange lights…Nothing ...
Out beyond Aldgate is a road,And a broad,Clean, noble thing it runs,For the sun'sAnd wind's and man's delight,And the high ...
What should the wars do with these jigging fools?The man behind the book may not be man,His own man or ...
F. OF H. I want a verse. It gives you little pains;--You just sit down, and draw upon your brains.Come, ...
Every tomcat has his she-cat,Every gander has his she-goose,Every gentleman his lady,Every hired hand his she-maid.I, a man, an oak, ...
'Tis long since, long since, since I heardA tin-whistle played,And heard the tunes, the ha'penny tunesThat nobody made!The tunes that ...
Did you see them pass to-day, Billy, Kate and Robin,All astride upon the back of old grey Dobbin?Jigging, jogging off ...
"Teapots and Quails,Snuffers and Snails,Set him a sailingand see how he sails!..Mitres and Beams,Thimbles and Creams,Set him a screamingand hark! ...
O it's "ah fare ye well," for the deep sea's crying,You thought you could forget it, but it's no use ...
Did you see them pass to-day, Billy, Kate and Robin,All astride upon the back of old grey Dobbin?Jigging, jogging off ...
As I left the Halls at Lumley, rose the vision of a comely Maid last season worshipped dumbly, watched with ...
I. My heart sank with our Claret-flask, Just now, beneath the heavy sedges That serve this Pond's black face for ...
See her come bearing down, a tidy craft! Gaily her topsails bulge, her sidelights burn! There's jigging in her rigging ...
Now Fireman Flynn met Hank the Finn where lights of Lust-land glow; "Let's leave," says he, "the lousy sea, and ...
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