The Bird With The Dark Plumes (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
The bird with the dark plumes in my blood, That never for one moment however I patched my truces Consented ...
The bird with the dark plumes in my blood, That never for one moment however I patched my truces Consented ...
Then what is the answer?- Not to be deluded by dreams. To know that great civilizations have broken down into ...
One more Unfortunate, Weary of breath, Rashly importunate, Gone to her death! Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care; ...
For Heinrich Blucher and Hannah Arendt Composed in the Tower before his execution These moving verses, and being brought at ...
One silent night of late, When every creature rested, Came one unto my gate, And knocking, me molested. Who's that, ...
[Goethe began to write an opera called Lowenstuhl, founded upon the old tradition which forms the subject of this Ballad, ...
One heavy day I ran away from the grim face of society and the dizzying clamor of the city and ...
Part One The power of charity sows deep in my heart, and I reap and gather the wheat in bundles ...
Would that we were like the rich man at the end of our days sitting pitiful in our finery surrounded ...
There were three cavaliers that went over the Rhine, And gayly they called to the hostess for wine. "And where ...
Have you ever heard the wind go "Yooooo"? 'T is a pitiful sound to hear! It seems to chill you ...
Out of the woods by the creek cometh a calling for Peter, And from the orchard a voice echoes and ...
Fisherman Jim lived on the hill With his bonnie wife an' his little boys; 'T wuz "Blow, ye winds, as ...
I met a lady from the South who said (You won't believe she said it, but she said it): "None ...
With delicate, mad hands, behind his sordid bars, Surely he hath his posies, which they tear and twine; Those scentless ...
What Twigs We held by -- Oh the View When Life's swift River striven through We pause before a further ...
Her Sweet turn to leave the Homestead Came the Darker Way -- Carriages -- Be Sure -- and Guests -- ...
The Rose did caper on her cheek -- Her Bodice rose and fell -- Her pretty speech -- like drunken ...
Drowning is not so pitiful As the attempt to rise Three times, 'tis said, a sinking man Comes up to ...
Now as Heaven is my Lot, they're the Pests of the Nation! Wherever they can come With clankum and blankum ...
The Hunting The Bellman looked uffish, and wrinkled his brow. "If only you'd spoken before! It's excessively awkward to mention ...
The ladye she stood at her lattice high, Wi' her doggie at her feet; Thorough the lattice she can spy ...
Dedication Inscribed to a dear Child: in memory of golden summer hours and whispers of a summer sea. Girt with ...
A man on his own in a car Is revenging himself on his wife; He open the throttle and bubbles ...
Slowly up silent peaks, the white edge of the world, Trod four archangels, clear against the unheeding sky, Bearing, with ...
Slowly up silent peaks, the white edge of the world, Trod four archangels, clear against the unheeding sky, Bearing, with ...
Young Mary, loitering once her garden way, Felt a warm splendour grow in the April day, As wine that blushes ...
Her Mother's Epitaph Here lies A worthy matron of unspotted life, A loving mother and obedient wife, A friendly neighbor, ...
I. You're my friend: I was the man the Duke spoke to; I helped the Duchess to cast off his ...
As evening falls, The walls grow luminous and warm, the walls Tremble and glow with the lives within them moving, ...
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