Story (Stephen Dunn Poem)
A woman's taking her late-afternoon walk on Chestnut where no sidewalk exists and houses with gravel driveways sit back among ...
A woman's taking her late-afternoon walk on Chestnut where no sidewalk exists and houses with gravel driveways sit back among ...
Upon this Primrose hill, Where, if Heav'n would distil A shower of rain, each several drop might go To his ...
The Zeroes -- taught us -- Phosphorous -- We learned to like the Fire By playing Glaciers -- when a ...
The first Day's Night had come -- And grateful that a thing So terrible -- had been endured -- I ...
That odd old man is dead a year -- We miss his stated Hat. 'Twas such an evening bright and ...
Of all the Sounds despatched abroad, There's not a Charge to me Like that old measure in the Boughs -- ...
Just lost, when I was saved! Just felt the world go by! Just girt me for the onset with Eternity, ...
How the old Mountains drip with Sunset How the Hemlocks burn -- How the Dun Brake is draped in Cinder ...
Our journey had advanced -- Our feet were almost come To that odd Fork in Being's Road -- Eternity -- ...
Afraid! Of whom am I afraid? Not Death -- for who is He? The Porter of my Father's Lodge As ...
Our lives are Swiss -- So still -- so Cool -- Till some odd afternoon The Alps neglect their Curtains ...
I had been hungry, all the Years -- My Noon had Come -- to dine -- I trembling drew the ...
I'm "wife" -- I've finished that -- That other state -- I'm Czar -- I'm "Woman" now -- It's safer ...
To glibly say that Joe was sort of odd quite missed the point. Peculiar in many ways and kind of ...
The problem was the manner of choice (or whether there was a choice for that matter) as you had taken ...
Enduring an inguinal hernia repair can drive you to despair, it is a monumental nonsense; in my defence I hadn't ...
The line breaks and the guns go under, The lords and the lackeys ride the plain; I draw deep breaths ...
Says Tom to Jack, 'tis very odd, These representatives of God, In color, way of life and evil, Should be ...
And all at length are gathered in. --LOUISE BOGAN By the time I came around to feeling pain and woke ...
Delia, the unkindest girl on earth, When I besought the fair, That favour of intrinsic worth A ringlet of her ...
I The cloud my bed is tinged with blood and foam. The vault yet blazes with the sun Writhing above ...
TO LAYLAH EIGHT-AND-TWENTY Lamp of living loveliness, Maid miraculously male, Rapture of thine own excess Blushing through the velvet veil ...
I The cloud my bed is tinged with blood and foam. The vault yet blazes with the sun Writhing above ...
TO LAYLAH EIGHT-AND-TWENTY Lamp of living loveliness, Maid miraculously male, Rapture of thine own excess Blushing through the velvet veil ...
THE PROLOGUE. WHEN folk had laughed all at this nice case Of Absolon and Hendy Nicholas, Diverse folk diversely they ...
Tweedledee said to Alice, "You like poetry-" "Ye-es, pretty well-some poetry," Alice said doubtfully. "What shall I repeat to her," ...
Come queen of months in company Wi all thy merry minstrelsy The restless cuckoo absent long And twittering swallows chimney ...
There is a section in my library for death and another for Irish history, a few shelves for the poetry ...
It could be the name of a prehistoric beast that roamed the Paleozoic earth, rising up on its hind legs ...
What scene would I want to be enveloped in more than this one, an ordinary night at the kitchen table, ...
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