After Hearing a Waltz by Bartok (Amy Lowell Poem)
But why did I kill him? Why? Why? In the small, gilded room, near the stair? My ears rack and ...
But why did I kill him? Why? Why? In the small, gilded room, near the stair? My ears rack and ...
You ask me to be gay and glad While lurid clouds of danger loom, And vain and bad and gambling ...
The Doorkeepers of Zion, They do not always stand In helmet and whole armour, With halberds in their hand; But, ...
Now this is the tale of the Council the German Kaiser decreed, To ease the strong of their burden, to ...
Written for John Lockwood Kipling's They killed a Child to please the Gods In Earth's young penitence, And I have ...
O that a week could be an age, and we Felt parting and warm meeting every week, Then one poor ...
O Sovereign power of love! O grief! O balm! All records, saving thine, come cool, and calm, And shadowy, through ...
BOOK I Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn, Far from ...
Immortal Heat, O let thy greater flame Attract the lesser to it: let those fires Which shall consume the world, ...
"OLD Norbert with the flat blue cap-- A German said to be-- Why let your pipe die on your lap, ...
WHAT various ways in which a thing is told Some truth abuse, while others fiction hold; In stories we invention ...
THE Lombard princes oft pervade my mind; The present tale Boccace relates you'll find; Agiluf was the noble monarch's name; ...
SOME wit, handsome form and gen'rous mind; A triple engine prove in love we find; By these the strongest fortresses ...
THE key, which opes the chest of hoarded gold. Unlocks the heart that favours would withhold. To this the god ...
IF truth give pleasure, surely we should try; To found our tales on what we can rely; Th' experiment repeatedly ...
IN ev'ry age, at Naples, we are told, Intrigue and gallantry reign uncontrolled; With beauteous objects in abundance blessed. No ...
The Saviour hides His face; My spirit thirsts to prove Renew'd supplies of pardoning grace, And never-fading love. The favor'd ...
As one who strives a hill to climb, Who never climbed before: Who finds it, in a little time, Grow ...
THIS last denial of my faith, Thou, solemn Priest, hast heard; And, though upon my bed of death, I call ...
I've quenched my lamp, I struck it in that start Which every limb convulsed, I heard it fall The crash ...
ARRANGING long-locked drawers and shelves Of cabinets, shut up for years, What a strange task we've set ourselves ! How ...
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
O God, where does this tend-these struggling aims? What would I have? What is this 'sleep', which seems To bound ...
HOW can my poor heart be glad, When absent from my sailor lad; How can I the thought forego- He's ...
WE overstate the ills of life, and take Imagination (given us to bring down The choirs of singing angels overshone ...
We sow the glebe, we reap the corn, We build the house where we may rest, And then, at moments, ...
In these deep solitudes and awful cells, Where heav'nly-pensive contemplation dwells, And ever-musing melancholy reigns; What means this tumult in ...
For three years, out of key with his time, He strove to resuscitate the dead art Of poetry; to maintain ...
An elegy on the death of MONTGOMERY TAPPEN who dies at Poughkeepsie on the 20th of Nov. 1784 in the ...
Central Park: Water Fight, Flight, and Tears June 1 2001, N.Y. C., U.S.A. (1) From the five boroughs of N.Y.C., ...
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