From the Roof (Denise Levertov Poem)
This wild night, gathering the washing as if it were flowers animal vines twisting over the line and slapping my ...
This wild night, gathering the washing as if it were flowers animal vines twisting over the line and slapping my ...
Too late, alas! the song To remedy the wrong; -- The rooms are taken from us, swept and garnished for ...
The Four Archangels, so the legends tell, Raphael, Gabriel, Michael, Azrael, Being first of those to whom the Power was ...
O SORROW! Why dost borrow The natural hue of health, from vermeil lips?-- To give maiden blushes To the white ...
Muse of my native land! loftiest Muse! O first-born on the mountains! by the hues Of heaven on the spiritual ...
to a friend No! those days are gone away And their hours are old and gray, And their minutes buried ...
St. Agnes' Eve--Ah, bitter chill it was! The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold; The hare limp'd trembling through ...
Reader! what soul that laoves a verse can see The spring return, nor glow like you and me? Hear the ...
The chestnut casts his flambeaux, and the flowers Stream from the hawthorn on the wind away, The doors clap to, ...
Come, Anthea, let us two Go to feast, as others do: Tarts and custards, creams and cakes, Are the junkets ...
To the Right Honourable Mildmay, Earl of Westmoreland Come, sons of summer, by whose toil We are the lords of ...
While the milder fates consent, Let's enjoy our merriment : Drink, and dance, and pipe, and play ; Kiss our ...
'MIDST the noise of merriment and glee, 'Midst full many a sorrow, many a care, Charlotte, I remember, we remember ...
I AM always inclined to suspect The best story under the sun As soon as by chance I detect That ...
Four Tao philosophers as cedar waxwings chat on a February berry bush in sun, and I am one. Such merriment ...
These are the Nights that Beetles love -- From Eminence remote Drives ponderous perpendicular His figure intimate The terror of ...
A Mien to move a Queen -- Half Child -- Half Heroine -- An Orleans in the Eye That puts ...
A happy lip -- breaks sudden -- It doesn't state you how It contemplated -- smiling -- Just consummated -- ...
For more than 40 years we've been good friends, since 1963 in fact, from college where we met (and managed ...
I There was an ancient City, stricken down With a strange frenzy, and for many a day They paced from ...
A fine and subtle spirit dwells In every little flower, Each one its own sweet feeling breathes With more or ...
A fine and subtle spirit dwells In every little flower, Each one its own sweet feeling breathes With more or ...
1 They that in play can do the thing they would, Having an instinct throned in reason's place, --And every ...
1.1 Lo now! four other acts upon the stage, 1.2 Childhood, and Youth, the Manly, and Old-age. 1.3 The first: ...
Who caroused in the Dirt and was corrected by His Uncle. His Uncle came upon Franklin Hyde Carousing in the ...
(PETER RONSARD _loquitur_.) ``Heigho!'' yawned one day King Francis, ``Distance all value enhances! ``When a man's busy, why, leisure ``Strikes ...
I, too, saw God through mud -- The mud that cracked on cheeks when wretches smiled. War brought more glory ...
I Hear the sledges with the bells- Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, ...
[The late Mr. Jonathan Swift Somers, laureate of Spoon River, planned The Spooniad as an epic in twenty-four books, but ...
There is a lovely noise about your name, Above the shoutings of the city clear, More than a moment's merriment, ...
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