The Oeconomy Of Love (John Armstrong Poems)
Thy bounties, Love, in thy soft raptures, whenTimeliest the melting pairs indulge, and howBest to improve the genial joy, how ...
Thy bounties, Love, in thy soft raptures, whenTimeliest the melting pairs indulge, and howBest to improve the genial joy, how ...
1 How is the gold become dim! How is the most fine gold changed!The stones of the sanctuary are poured out ...
1I reached heaven and it was syrupy.It was oppressively sweet.Croaking substances stuck to my knees.Of all substances St. Michael was ...
Then, since the object of desire exists not in anyplace, how canst thou purpose to journey towards Him on foot? ...
An odd name they gave you,my uncle,Black hobomanBlack streetwalking manBlack PRINCE Albert indeedwho never knew robes.They called you Beale Street ...
I know: to the trees, but not to us,Perfection of the life is given, whole.And on the Earth - the ...
I remember sitting together in parksleaning over bridgescounting trout and swansholding hands under archeskissing away sunsand moons into darkness.I remember ...
The Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feasts Excited the spleen of the Birds and the Beasts: For their mirth ...
"HE stood up in our khaki with the poise Of perfect soldiership beneath the praise Of the French officer. We ...
He lived to learn, to watch his knowledge grow,Nightly to question what advance preciseTwelve hours had given to that tide ...
1 A yellow band of light upon the street Pours from an open door, and makes a wide Pathway of ...
She gives him his eyes, she found them Among some rubble, among some beetles He gives her her skin He ...
It was Christmas Day in the trenches In Spain in Penninsular War, And Sam Small were cleaning his musket A ...
To think that Spinoza died polishing eyeglasses. That Blake got tired at a printer's shop waiting for that day's conversation ...
I am standing in the cemetery at Byrds, Texas. What did Judy say? "God-forsaken is beautiful, too." A very old ...
I. You're my friend: I was the man the Duke spoke to; I helped the Duchess to cast off his ...
Take this quiet woman, she has been standing before a polishing wheel for over three hours, and she lacks twenty ...
1 We live here because the houses are clean, the lawns run right to the street and the streets run ...
In Havana in 1948 I ate fried dog believing it was Peking duck. Later, in Tampa I bunked with an ...
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