The Poet’s Corner (Laura Riding Jackson Poems)
Here where the end of bone is no end of song And the earth is bedecked with immortality In what ...
Here where the end of bone is no end of song And the earth is bedecked with immortality In what ...
Old as the world--no other things so old; Nay, older than the world, else, how had sprung Such lusty strength ...
COME, dear old comrade, you and I Will steal an hour from days gone by, The shining days when life ...
Fled are the frosts, and now the fields appear Reclothed in fresh and verdant diaper; Thaw'd are the snows; and ...
And your sunny years with a gracious wife Have brought you a daughter dear. "I watched her to-day; a more ...
I "Percussus sum sicut foenum, et aruit cor meum." - Ps. ci Wintertime nighs; But my bereavement-pain It cannot bring ...
Forget the frank, Give me the Fenway sausage. Lansdowne or Yawkey, Just give me the street, the crowds, the carts. ...
I Once a fowler, young and artless, To the quiet greenwood came; Full of skill was he and heartless In ...
O hapless day! O wretched day! I hoped you'd pass me by-- Alas, the years have sneaked away And all ...
GOD Lyaeus, ever young, Ever honour'd, ever sung, Stain'd with blood of lusty grapes, In a thousand lusty shapes Dance ...
NOW the lusty spring is seen; Golden yellow, gaudy blue, Daintily invite the view: Everywhere on every green Roses blushing ...
CYNTHIA, to thy power and thee We obey. Joy to this great company! And no day Come to steal this ...
POOR River, now thou'rt almost dry, What Nymph, or Swain, will near thee lie? Since brought, alas! to sad Decay, ...
Love and forgetting might have carried them A little further up the mountain side With night so near, but not ...
London, thou art of town{.e}s A per se. Soveraign of cities, semeliest in sight, Of high renoun, riches, and royaltie; ...
LONDON, thou art of townes A per se. Soveraign of cities, seemliest in sight, Of high renoun, riches and royaltie; ...
SWEET rois of vertew and of gentilness, Delytsum lily of everie lustynes, Richest in bontie and in bewtie clear, And ...
When I close my eyes I cannot reconstruct your face but the three-dimensional solidity or you bursts through the tissues ...
They'll always tell a story those obscure mementos stacked on dusty shelves, demure and silent like the other gaudy tributes ...
No, she said, I never knew it was your first. It doesn't matter anyway. I always had an inkling that ...
LOVE, thou are absolute, sole Lord Of life and death. To prove the word, We'll now appeal to none of ...
THE PROLOGUE. WHEN folk had laughed all at this nice case Of Absolon and Hendy Nicholas, Diverse folk diversely they ...
The double 12 sorwe of Troilus to tellen, That was the king Priamus sone of Troye, In lovinge, how his ...
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
I know 'tis but a loom of land, Yet is it land, and so I will rejoice, I know I ...
WITNESS FOR TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA PEACE In San Francisco around Easter time last year, they had a trout fishing ...
'TWAS in the seventeen hunder year O' grace, and ninety-five, That year I was the wae'est man Of ony man ...
And the first grey of morning fill'd the east, And the fog rose out of the Oxus stream. But all ...
The bell struck one, and shook the silent tower; The graves give up their dead: fair Elenor Walk'd by the ...
O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stain'd With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit Beneath my shady ...
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