Two Travellers in the Place Vendome (Amy Lowell Poem)
Reign of Louis Philippe A great tall column spearing at the sky With a little man on top. Goodness! Tell ...
Reign of Louis Philippe A great tall column spearing at the sky With a little man on top. Goodness! Tell ...
Once I am sure there's nothing going on I step inside, letting the door thud shut. Another church: matting, seats, ...
Ah! What avails the classic bent And what the cultured word, Against the undoctored incident That actually occurred? And what ...
Reason will not decide at last; the sword will decide. The sword: an obsolete instrument of bronze or steel, formerly ...
Gasholders, russet among fields. Milldams, marlpools that lay unstirring. Eel-swarms. Coagulations of frogs: once, with branches and half-bricks, he battered ...
Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon. As for the Greek theatrical tradition Which represents ...
The curtain ripped, the walls tumbling law fulfilled, obsolete divisions by works no more are we measured by the food ...
Their dappled importunity Disparage or dismiss -- The Obloquies of Etiquette Are obsolete to Bliss -- (Emily Dickinson)
Clean your glory glasses, scrub the lenses clean and see the puissant morons stare; garbed in common guises far from ...
Words today are how'd you say, in sad retreat, or obsolete? They slide around conducting sound, deferent to moving ground ...
The Barrister's Dream They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope; ...
Dedication Inscribed to a dear Child: in memory of golden summer hours and whispers of a summer sea. Girt with ...
WITNESS FOR TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA PEACE In San Francisco around Easter time last year, they had a trout fishing ...
NO more wine? then we'll push back chairs and talk. A final glass for me, though: cool, i' faith! We ...
After I wrote this, a friend scrawled on this page, "Yes." And I said, merely to myself, "I wish it ...
Not even if with a wizard force I might Have summoned whomsoever I would name, Should anyone else have come ...
Ne Rubeam, Pingui donatus Munere (Horace, Epistles II.i.267) While you, great patron of mankind, sustain The balanc'd world, and open ...
Touch it: it won't shrink like an eyeball, This egg-shaped bailiwick, clear as a tear. Here's yesterday, last year --- ...
The night is only a sort of carbon paper, Blueblack, with the much-poked periods of stars Letting in the light, ...
Within this sober Frame expect Work of no Forrain Architect; That unto Caves the Quarries drew, And Forrests did to ...
Read by the poet at The Public Ceremonial of The Naional Institute of Arts and Letters at Carnegie Hall, New ...
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