The Picture (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
SOLICITED I've been to give a tale, In which (though true, decorum must prevail), The subject from a picture shall ...
SOLICITED I've been to give a tale, In which (though true, decorum must prevail), The subject from a picture shall ...
SHE stood against the kitchen sink, and looked Over the sink out through a dusty window At weeds the water ...
Out walking in the frozen swamp one gray day I paused and said, 'I will turn back from here. No, ...
A lighted window floats through the night like a piece of paper in the wind. I want to see into ...
O Fair and stately maid, whose eye Was kindled in the upper sky At the same torch that lighted mine; ...
Trees in groves, Kine in droves, In ocean sport the scaly herds, Wedge-like cleave the air the birds, To northern ...
TWELVE o'clock. Along the reaches of the street Held in a lunar synthesis, Whispering lunar incantations Dissolve the floors of ...
As I walked down the waterside This silent morning, wet and dark; Before the cocks in farmyards crowed, Before the ...
1. Each of us like you has died once, has passed through drift of wood-leaves, cracked and bent and tortured ...
Remorse -- is Memory -- awake -- Her Parties all astir -- A Presence of Departed Acts -- At window ...
Advance is Life's condition The Grave but a Relay Supposed to be a terminus That makes it hated so -- ...
To the tune of "Bodhisattva Aliens" Soft breezes, mild sunshine, spring is still young. The sudden change of the light ...
When Scotland's great Regent, our warrior most dear, The debt of his nature did pay, T' was Edward, the cruel, ...
Of Nelson and the North Sing the glorious day's renown, When to battle fierce came forth All the might of ...
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
This is a day of happiness, sweet peace, And heavenly sunshine; upon which conven'd In full assembly fair, once more ...
Every month or so, Sundays, we walked the line, The limit and the boundary. Past the sweet gum Superb above ...
Encase your legs in nylons, Bestride your hills with pylons O age without a soul; Away with gentle willows And ...
When melancholy Autumn comes to Wembley And electric trains are lighted after tea The poplars near the stadium are trembly ...
The bells of waiting Advent ring, The Tortoise stove is lit again And lamp-oil light across the night Has caught ...
I threw my arms about those shoulders, glancing at what emerged behind that back, and saw a chair pushed slightly ...
(France -- Ancient Regime.) I. Go away! Go away; I will not confess to you! His black biretta clings like ...
"Oh yes, I went over to Edmonstoun the other day and saw Johnny, mooning around as usual! He will never ...
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
LARA. CANTO THE FIRST. I. The Serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain, And slavery half forgets her ...
THEY pass before me, these Eyes full of light, Eyes made magnetic by some angel wise; The holy brothers pass ...
WHERE'ER he be, on water or on land, Under pale suns or climes that flames enfold; One of Christ's own, ...
CARRYING bouquet, and handkerchief, and gloves, Proud of her height as when she lived, she moves With all the careless ...
The grey sea and the long black land; And the yellow half-moon large and low; And the startled little waves ...
HAD I the wyte, had I the wyte, Had I the wyte? she bade me; She watch'd me by the ...
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