Little Exercise (Elizabeth Bishop Poem)
Think of the storm roaming the sky uneasily like a dog looking for a place to sleep in, listen to ...
Think of the storm roaming the sky uneasily like a dog looking for a place to sleep in, listen to ...
Oh, but it is dirty! --this little filling station, oil-soaked, oil-permeated to a disturbing, over-all black translucency. Be careful with ...
LEAVE me a little while alone, Here at his grave that still is strown With crumbling flower and wreath; The ...
As a girl, she hated the grain of anything on her fins. Now she is part fire ant, part centipede. ...
Well, as you say, we live for small horizons: We move in crowds, we flow and talk together, Seeing so ...
You see that porcelain ranged there in the window- Platters and soup-plates done with pale pink rosebuds, And tiny violets, ...
From time to time, lifting his eyes, he sees The soft blue starlight through the one small window, The moon ...
THE HOUSE OF DUST A Symphony BY CONRAD AIKEN To Jessie NOTE . . . Parts of this poem have ...
Fanfare of northwest wind, a bluejay wind announces autumn, and the equinox rolls back blue bays to a far afternoon. ...
That which he did not feel, he would not sing; What most he felt, religion it was to hide In ...
Part in peace: is day before us? Praise His Name for life and light; Are the shadows lengthening o'er us? ...
O flower at my window Why blossom you so fair, With your green and purple cup Upturned to sun and ...
This little bag I hope will prove To be not vainly made-- For, if you should a needle want It ...
Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea-- call ...
As Parmigianino did it, the right hand Bigger than the head, thrust at the viewer And swerving easily away, as ...
Orpheus liked the glad personal quality Of the things beneath the sky. Of course, Eurydice was a part Of this. ...
The first of the undecoded messages read: "Popeye sits in thunder, Unthought of. From that shoebox of an apartment, From ...
Kind of empty in the way it sees everything, the earth gets to its feet andsalutes the sky. More of ...
God-Full-of-Mercy, the prayer for the dead. If God was not full of mercy, Mercy would have been in the world, ...
Once a great love cut my life in two. The first part goes on twisting at some other place like ...
And the first grey of morning fill'd the east, And the fog rose out of the Oxus stream. But all ...
Come to me in my dreams, and then By day I shall be well again! For so the night will ...
In the secular night you wander around alone in your house. It's two-thirty. Everyone has deserted you, or this is ...
It was taken some time ago. At first it seems to be a smeared print: blurred lines and grey flecks ...
The truest friends, how few they are. Still time, it seems, must take them far to God knows where and ...
UPON that night, when fairies light On Cassilis Downans 2 dance, Or owre the lays, in splendid blaze, On sprightly ...
SING on, sweet thrush, upon the leafless bough, Sing on, sweet bird, I listen to thy strain, See aged Winter, ...
GUID-MORNIN' to our Majesty! May Heaven augment your blisses On ev'ry new birth-day ye see, A humble poet wishes. My ...
MY father was a farmer upon the Carrick border, O, And carefully he bred me in decency and order, O; ...
SOME books are lies frae end to end, And some great lies were never penn'd: Ev'n ministers they hae been ...
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