The Woodpecker (Elizabeth Madox Roberts Poems)
The woodpecker pecked out a little round hole ...
The woodpecker pecked out a little round hole ...
(An interpretation of a Jewish face)You've inherited the great ram's features,The black-wooled one that bred with Jacob's herds.You found yourself ...
As I was coming down Conroy's Gap,I heard a maiden cry;'There goes Bill the Bullocky,He's bound for Gundagai.A better poor ...
When I first saw the dear old town Emus went walking up and down, Or in a doorway poked a ...
A drifting, April, twilight sky, A wind which blew the puddles dry, And slapped the river into waves That ran ...
Did they send me away from my cat and my wife To a doctor who poked me and counted my ...
When three, he fished these lakes, Curled sleeping on a lip of rock, Crib blankets tucked from ants and fishbone ...
One evening at dusk as Noah stood on his Ark, Putting green oil in starboard side lamp, His wife came ...
Richard the First, Coeur-de-Lion, Is a name that we speak of with pride, Though he only lived six months in ...
THE PROLOGUE. WHEN folk had laughed all at this nice case Of Absolon and Hendy Nicholas, Diverse folk diversely they ...
Once riding in old Baltimore, Heart-filled, head-filled with glee; I saw a Baltimorean Keep looking straight at me. Now I ...
Ophelia claims we're dead and gives me back all my Frank Zappa and the Mothers albums. I nearly claw out ...
O what has made that sudden noise? What on the threshold stands? It never crossed the sea because John Bull ...
Their strength had fed on this when Death's white arms Came sleeved in vapors and miasmal dew, Curling across the ...
1 The children of the Czar Played with a bouncing ball In the May morning, in the Czar's garden, Tossing ...
"Poet and veteran of childhood, look! See in me the obscene, for you have love, For you have hatred, you, ...
The lone man gazed and gazed upon his gold, His sweat, his blood, the wage of weary days; But now ...
Isabel met an enormous bear, Isabel, Isabel, didn't care; The bear was hungry, the bear was ravenous, The bear's big ...
Speaking of marvels, I am alive together with you, when I might have been alive with anyone under the sun, ...
Shadow children, thin and small, Now the day is left behind, You are dancing on the wall, On the curtains, ...
First light. This misted field is the world, that man slipping the greased bolt back and forth, that man tunneled ...
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