An Oriental Apologue (James Russell Lowell Poems)
Somewhere in India, upon a time,(Read it not Injah, or you spoil the verse,) There dwelt two saints whose privilege sublimeIt ...
Somewhere in India, upon a time,(Read it not Injah, or you spoil the verse,) There dwelt two saints whose privilege sublimeIt ...
Monday The world is a ball of water. See, it is round-sided. I move across its topside, upon the world, not in it. The boat ...
In the background, a few shacks & overturned cartsAnd a gray sky holding the singular pallor of Lent.And here the ...
FOR THELOSS OF HER SISTER BY MARRIAGE.WHAT tongue can half my woes express?What force of eloquence can tell?The causes of ...
My father once broke a man's handOver the exhaust pipe of a John Deere tractor. The man,Ruben Vasquez, wanted to kill ...
There is a hornet in the roomand one of us will have to goout the window into the lateAugust midafternoon ...
From far on the ocean these waters have come,And curving and breaking and frolicsome,Or gracefully lingering in spray,They drench the ...
She's mistress of all:Rule of this earthTo her is entrusted;Fortune she's called.But for her, Maia's son, whomShe grants gifts, be ...
We saw those berries, over-ripe and glowing,in weak and tepid light of the October sunpersisting red as blood, in right ...
I Once in the winter Out on a lake In the heart of the north-land, Far ...
if i believein death be sureof thisit isbecause you have loved me,moon and sunsetstars and flowersgold crescendo and silver mutingof ...
I Once in the winter Out on a lake In the heart of the north-land, Far from the Fort And ...
'Tis hard to say, if greater Want of Skill Appear in Writing or in Judging ill, But, of the two, ...
Hail, holy Light, offspring of Heaven firstborn, Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblam'd? since God ...
--The Carpathian Frontier, October, 1968 --for my brother Once, in a foreign country, I was suddenly ill. I was driving ...
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