Sonnet: The Ship (Lloyd Mifflin Poems)
I LAY on Delos of the CycladesAt evening, on a cape of golden land; The blind Bard's book was open ...
I LAY on Delos of the CycladesAt evening, on a cape of golden land; The blind Bard's book was open ...
YE that pine for the vanished years, as pinedOdysseus for one glimpse of Hellas more;That toward them lean, as toward ...
He will not return, your Odysseus, this time he will not return.No Penelopes with their spindles are waiting for him by ...
Through horrors of land and horrors of seaBereft and wandering, Odysseus,God-fearing wretch, sought Ithaca;Unfaltering, he plunged into the gloom of ...
Tell me quiet thingsWhen it is shadowy:It is at morningbreak you must tell me talesLike those about Odysseus,Morning is the ...
1 The autumn shade is thin. Grey leaves lie faint Where they will lie, and, where the thick green was, ...
How shall a generation know its storyIf it will know no other? When, amongThe scoffers at the Institute, PasteurHeard one ...
Seeking to find his home, Odysseus crosses each water; Through Charybdis so dread; ay, and through Scylla's ...
Tempora labuntur, tacitisque senescimus annis, Et fugiunt freno non remorante dies. Ovid, Fastorum, Lib. vi. "O C?sar, we who are ...
name meaning thread weaver or duck (these may be guesses from obscurity) ten-year faithful wife whilst her husband was gallivanting ...
(1) and off to scott's (the dockers' restaurant) burly men packed in round solid tables but what the helle (drowned ...
I thought of how a whale's white ribs could choke the sky's blue neck, massive vertebrae half-buried in sand, and ...
One in thy thousand statues we salute thee On all thy thousand thrones acclaim and claim Who walk in forest ...
The brawling of a sparrow in the eaves, The brilliant moon and all the milky sky, And all that famous ...
(To Sarah Bernhardt) How vain and dull this common world must seem To such a One as thou, who should'st ...
1 AFTER all, not to create only, or found only, But to bring, perhaps from afar, what is already founded, ...
STANDING IN EDEN 1 Poetry claimed me young on Skegness beach Before I was born I answered her cry For ...
I have not brought my Odyssey With me here across the sea; But you'll remember, when I say How, when ...
Seeking to find his home, Odysseus crosses each water; Through Charybdis so dread; ay, and through Scylla's wild yells, Through ...
This is the greatest thing in North America: Europe is the greatest thing in North America! High in the sky, ...
And then went down to the ship, Set keel to breakers, forth on the godly sea, and We set up ...
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