As You Leave Me (Etheridge Knight Poem)
Shiny record albums scattered over the living room floor, reflecting light from the lamp, sharp reflections that hurt my eyes ...
Shiny record albums scattered over the living room floor, reflecting light from the lamp, sharp reflections that hurt my eyes ...
1 I move my hand over slopes, falls, lumps of sight, Lashes barely able to be touched, Lips that give ...
She stood breast-high amid the corn, Clasp'd by the golden light of morn, Like the sweetheart of the sun, Who ...
Cloud-puffball, torn tufts, tossed pillows ' flaunt forth, then chevy on an air- built thoroughfare: heaven-roysterers, in gay-gangs ' they ...
I "Soul! Shall I see thy face," she said, "In one brief hour? And away with thee from a loveless ...
I came with the rising sun and I've brought nothing but two eyes, all I have, simply two eyes, for ...
Turning toward Jerusalem going with the Christ with his disciples on the way to David's city On the road covered ...
The light of the morning so fast and changing the sky lit up, brilliant dancing before my eyes Gossamer yellows, ...
thin, fine, airy, lines only brush strokes in the heavens ribbons, painted, effortlessly mascara lashes, vertically written as if on ...
In the rocks, the ledge, the outcropping of the glacier below the cliffs, the lighthouse small tidepools bits of warming ...
All he gave, for us, heavenly living, for a manger bed, angels at his beck and call for sheep, for ...
I LATELY vowed to leave the nuns alone, So oft their freaks have in my page been shown. The subject ...
IN Eastern climes, by means considered new; The Mount's old-man, with terrors would pursue; His large domains howe'er were not ...
PART I 'Tis the middle of night by the castle clock And the owls have awakened the crowing cock; Tu-whit!- ...
Fair was the evening and brightly the sun Was shining on desert and grove, Sweet were the breezes and balmy ...
Thy cheek is pale with thought, but not from woe, And yet so lovely, that if Mirth could flush Its ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
Remind me not, remind me not, Of those beloved, those vanish'd hours, When all my soul was given to thee; ...
LARA. CANTO THE FIRST. I. The Serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain, And slavery half forgets her ...
I. You're my friend: I was the man the Duke spoke to; I helped the Duchess to cast off his ...
Over the darkened city, the city of towers, The city of a thousand gates, Over the gleaming terraced roofs, the ...
I hear the oriole's always-grieving voice, And the rich summer's welcome loss I hear In the sickle's serpentine hiss Cutting ...
My little Son, who look'd from thoughtful eyes And moved and spoke in quiet grown-up wise, Having my law the ...
Mine, says the cat, putting out his paw of darkness. My lover, my friend, my slave, my toy, says the ...
How shall I wail, that wasn't meant for weeping? Love has run and left me, oh, what then? Dream, then, ...
Under yonder beech-tree single on the green-sward, Couched with her arms behind her golden head, Knees and tresses folded to ...
Their spirits beat upon mine Like the wings of a thousand butterflies. I closed my eyes and felt their spirits ...
The press of the Spoon River Clarion was wrecked, And I was tarred and feathered, For publishing this on the ...
I. My face resembles your face less and less each day. When I was young no one mistook whose child ...
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