The Smiles Of The Bathers (Weldon Kees Poem)
The smiles of the bathers fade as they leave the water, And the lover feels sadness fall as it ends, ...
The smiles of the bathers fade as they leave the water, And the lover feels sadness fall as it ends, ...
Oh gallant was our galley from her caren steering-wheel To her figurehead of silver and her beak of hammered steel; ...
As I look from the isle, o'er its billows of green, To the billows of foam-crested blue, Yon bark, that ...
High on a slope in New Guinea The Grumman Hellcat lodges among bright vines as thick as arms. In 1943, ...
I Jesús, Estrella, Esperanza, Mercy: Sails flashing to the wind like weapons, sharks following the moans the fever and the ...
And now it was evening. And Almitra the seeress said, "Blessed be this day and this place and your spirit ...
They worked well together, the crew of the boat The Captain and the Pilot, each knowing their roles, the work ...
In my trade, you never are to ask these kinds of questions, questions where you don't know the answer, those ...
A big fat black dirigible of a fly careening around the office buzzed me, like a test pilot and the ...
You have obey'd, you WINDS, that must fulfill The Great Disposer's righteous Will; Throughout the Land, unlimited you flew, Nor ...
And now our government a bird with two right wings flies on from zone to zone while we go on ...
Up in a dirty window in a dark room is a star which an old man can see. He looks ...
Thousand minstrels woke within me, "Our music's in the hills; "- Gayest pictures rose to win me, Leopard-colored rills. Up!-If ...
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
Ah, Douglass, we have fall'n on evil days, Such days as thou, not even thou didst know, When thee, the ...
Who ever loves, if he do not propose The right true end of love, he's one that goes To sea ...
No Man can compass a Despair -- As round a Goalless Road No faster than a Mile at once The ...
On this wondrous sea Sailing silently, Ho! Pilot, ho! Knowest thou the shore Where no breakers roar -- Where the ...
The billows swell, the winds are high, Clouds overcast my wintry sky; Out of the depths to Thee I call, ...
THE PROLOGUE. WHEN folk had laughed all at this nice case Of Absolon and Hendy Nicholas, Diverse folk diversely they ...
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
Part I It is an ancient Mariner, And he stoppeth one of three. 'By thy long grey beard and glittering ...
BUT two miles more, and then we rest ! Well, there is still an hour of day, And long the ...
O thou Most High who rulest all And hear'st the prayers of thine, O hearken, Lord, unto my suit And ...
A RETURN TO THE COVER OF THIS BOOK Dear Trout Fishing in America: I met your friend Fritz in Washington ...
My sister! my sweet sister! if a name Dearer and purer were, it should be thine; Mountains and seas divide ...
Over the sea our galleys went, With cleaving prows in order brave, To a speeding wind and a bounding wave, ...
OVER the sea our galleys went, With cleaving prows in order brave To a speeding wind and a bounding wave-- ...
I What's become of Waring Since he gave us all the slip, Chose land-travel or seafaring, Boots and chest, or ...
Per me si va ne la citt? dolente, per me si va ne l'etterno dolore, per me si va tra ...
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