Oberon’s Feast (Robert Herrick Poems)
Hapcot! To thee the Fairy State I with discretion, dedicate. Because thou prizest things that are Curious, and un-familiar. Take ...
Hapcot! To thee the Fairy State I with discretion, dedicate. Because thou prizest things that are Curious, and un-familiar. Take ...
I A shaded lamp and a waving blind, And the beat of a clock from a distant floor: On this ...
The gold moth did not love him So, gorgeous, she flew away. But the gray moth circled the flame Until ...
I watched them once, at dusk, on television, run, in our motel room half-way through Nebraska, quick, glittering, past beauty, ...
His eyes are quickened so with grief, He can watch a grass or leaf Every instant grow; he can Clearly ...
The bear puts both arms around the tree above her And draws it down as if it were a lover ...
A dented spider like a snow drop white On a white Heal-all, holding up a moth Like a white piece ...
I found a dimpled spider, fat and white, On a white heal-all, holding up a moth Like a white piece ...
Now, joy is born of parents poor, And pleasure of our richer kind; Though pleasure's free, she cannot sing As ...
A Moth the hue of this Haunts Candles in Brazil. Nature's Experience would make Our Reddest Second pale. Nature is ...
I went to Heaven -- 'Twas a small Town -- Lit -- with a Ruby -- Lathed -- with Down ...
Many have Earth's lovers been, Tried in seas and wars, I ween; Yet the mightiest have I seen: Yea, the ...
This much, O heaven-if I should brood or rave, Pity me not; but let the world be fed, Yea, in ...
O Lord, my best desire fulfil, And help me to resign Life, health, and comfort to Thy will, And make ...
As silent as a mirror is believed Realities plunge in silence by . . . I am not ready for ...
I have wrapped my dreams in a silken cloth, And laid them away in a box of gold; Where long ...
"SISTER, sister, go to bed! Go and rest your weary head." Thus the prudent brother said. "Do you want a ...
Today I pass the time reading a favorite haiku, saying the few words over and over. It feels like eating ...
Now darkness ponds upon the violet hills; cicadas sing; the tall elms gently sway; and night bends near, a deepening ...
"Let the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be acceptable in Thy sight." Whoever "Thy" is, ...
I threw my arms about those shoulders, glancing at what emerged behind that back, and saw a chair pushed slightly ...
He lay within a warm, soft world Of motion. Colors bloomed and fled, Maroon and turquoise, saffron, red, Wave upon ...
From Job A spirit passed before me: I beheld The face of immortality unveiled- Deep sleep came down on every ...
HEAP cassia, sandal-buds and stripes Of labdanum, and aloe-balls, Smear'd with dull nard an Indian wipes From out her hair: ...
I. THE FLOWER'S NAME Here's the garden she walked across, Arm in my arm, such a short while since: Hark, ...
I. How well I know what I mean to do When the long dark autumn-evenings come: And where, my soul, ...
The moth's kiss, first! Kiss me as if you made believe You were not sure, this eve, How my face, ...
Little Cowboy, what have you heard, Up on the lonely rath's green mound? Only the plaintive yellow bird Sighing in ...
I The bitterness. the misery, the wretchedness of childhood Put me out of love with God. I can't believe in ...
To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the ...
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