Eating Alone (Li-Young Lee Poem)
I've pulled the last of the year's young onions. The garden is bare now. The ground is cold, brown and ...
I've pulled the last of the year's young onions. The garden is bare now. The ground is cold, brown and ...
The tall yellow hollyhocks stand, Still and straight, With their round blossoms spread open, In the quiet sunshine. And still ...
The Bell in the convent tower swung. High overhead the great sun hung, A navel for the curving sky. The ...
I How fresh the Dartle's little waves that day! A steely silver, underlined with blue, And flashing where the round ...
My Grandpapa lives in a wonderful house With a great many windows and doors, There are stairs that go up, ...
Cross-ribboned shoes; a muslin gown, High-waisted, girdled with bright blue; A straw poke bonnet which hid the frown She pluckered ...
I own a solace shut within my heart, A garden full of many a quaint delight And warm with drowsy, ...
Tout le ciel vert se meurt Le dernier arbre brûle. The whole green sky is dying. The last tree flares ...
Ere the seamer bore him Eastward, Sleary was engaged to marry An attractive girl at Tunbridge, whom he called "my ...
O Sovereign power of love! O grief! O balm! All records, saving thine, come cool, and calm, And shadowy, through ...
O Sacred Providence, who from end to end Strongly and sweetly movest! shall I write, And not of thee, through ...
THE APPARITION OF HIS, MISTRESS, CALLING HIM TO ELYSIUM DESUNT NONNULLA-- Come then, and like two doves with silvery wings, ...
PAGE. WHERE goest thou? Where? Miller's daughter so fair! Thy name, pray?-- MILLER'S DAUGHTER. 'Tis Lizzy. PAGE. Where goest thou? ...
Father is quite the greatest poet That ever lived anywhere. You say you're going to write great music- I chose ...
Bound by the season the layers of fruit when I am making the salad but making it work Layers to ...
Aunt Sue's side yard up on the hill heavy pedaling with my bike up to do the mowing One of ...
Welcome to you rich Autumn days, Ere comes the cold, leaf-picking wind; When golden stocks are seen in fields, All ...
I have had enough. I gasp for breath. Every way ends, every road, every foot-path leads at last to the ...
O wind, rend open the heat, cut apart the heat, rend it to tatters. Fruit cannot drop through this thick ...
Begin, my muse, the imitative lay, Aonian doxies sound the thrumming string; Attempt no number of the plaintive Gay, Let ...
WORSEWICK Worsewick Hot Springs was nothing fancy. Somebody put some boards across the creek. That was it. The boards dammed ...
Good-bye, good-bye to Summer! For Summer's nearly done; The garden smiling faintly, Cool breezes in the sun; Our Thrushes now ...
She had thought the studio would keep itself; no dust upon the furniture of love. Half heresy, to wish the ...
(After Pushkin) Look at the bare wood hand-waxed floor and long White dressing-gown, the good child's writing-desk And passionate cold ...
MORNING and evening Maids heard the goblins cry: "Come buy our orchard fruits, Come buy, come buy: Apples and quinces, ...
I bought a run a while ago, On country rough and ridgy, Where wallaroos and wombats grow -- The Upper ...
Mondays, way before dawn, before even the first hint of blue in the windows, we'd hear it start, off the ...
I I have loved England, dearly and deeply, Since that first morning, shining and pure, The white cliffs of Dover ...
Once from a big, big building, When I was small, small, The queer folk in the windows Would smile at ...
WE were very tired, we were very merry We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry. It ...
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