Pinup (Billy Collins Poem)
The murkiness of the local garage is not so dense that you cannot make out the calendar of pinup drawings ...
The murkiness of the local garage is not so dense that you cannot make out the calendar of pinup drawings ...
Comrades, many a year and day Have fled since that glorious 9th of May When we made the charge at ...
While yet we wait for spring, and from the dry And blackening east that so embitters March, Well-housed must watch ...
1 They that in play can do the thing they would, Having an instinct throned in reason's place, --And every ...
III Our sons have gone to serve the Reds to serve the Reds to risk their heads! O bitter,bitter pain, ...
Lough, vessel, plough the British main, Seek the free ocean's wider plain; Leave English scenes and English skies, Unbind, dissever ...
Let others speak of her shame, I speak of my own. O Germany, pale mother! How soiled you are As ...
The country ever has a lagging Spring, Waiting for May to call its violets forth, And June its roses--showers and ...
O constellations of the early night, That sparkled brighter as the twilight died, And made the darkness glorious! I have ...
In a cool curving world he lies And ripples with dark ecstasies. The kind luxurious lapse and steal Shapes all ...
New England. 1 Alas, dear Mother, fairest Queen and best, 2 With honour, wealth, and peace happy and blest, 3 ...
There is darkness behind the light -- and the pale light drips Cold on vague shapes and figures, that, half-seen ...
My friend went to the piano; spun the stool A little higher; left his pipe to cool; Picked up a ...
Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords. I once read something ...
'Twas after dread Pultowa's day, When fortune left the royal Swede - Around a slaughtered army lay, No more to ...
LARA. CANTO THE FIRST. I. The Serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain, And slavery half forgets her ...
Something black somewhere in the vistas of his heart. Tulips from Tates teazed Henry in the mood to be a ...
There is an eye, there was a slit. Nights walk, and confer on him fear. The strangler tree, the dancing ...
To bear a weight that cannot be borne, Sisyphus, even you aren't that strong, Although your heart cannot be torn ...
Kentish Sir Byng stood for his King, Bidding the crop-headed Parliament swing: And, pressing a troop unable to stoop And ...
Karshish, the picker-up of learning's crumbs, The not-incurious in God's handiwork (This man's-flesh he hath admirably made, Blown like a ...
An imaginary composer.] I. Hist, but a word, fair and soft! Forth and be judged, Master Hugues! Answer the question ...
Would that the structure brave, the manifold music I build, Bidding my organ obey, calling its keys to their work, ...
I. All I believed is true! I am able yet All I want, to get By a method as strange ...
I. You're my friend: I was the man the Duke spoke to; I helped the Duchess to cast off his ...
I. The morn when first it thunders in March, The eel in the pond gives a leap, they say: As ...
FAME. See, as the prettiest graves will do in time, Our poet's wants the freshness of its prime; Spite of ...
I. Said Abner, ``At last thou art come! Ere I tell, ere thou speak, ``Kiss my cheek, wish me well!'' ...
"Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thyself." (David, Psalms 50.21) ['Will sprawl, now that the heat ...
I. Oh, what a dawn of day! How the March sun feels like May! All is blue again After last ...
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