The Kingfisher (William Henry Davies Poem)
It was the Rainbow gave thee birth, And left thee all her lovely hues; And, as her mother's name was ...
It was the Rainbow gave thee birth, And left thee all her lovely hues; And, as her mother's name was ...
I PRELUDE Daughter of Psyche, pledge of that last night When, pierced with pain and bitter-sweet delight, She knew her ...
The Fingers of the Light Tapped soft upon the Town With "I am great and cannot wait So therefore let ...
Taking up the fair Ideal, Just to cast her down When a fracture -- we discover -- Or a splintered ...
His Mansion in the Pool The Frog forsakes -- He rises on a Log And statements makes -- His Auditors ...
A stagnant pleasure like a Pool That lets its Rushes grow Until they heedless tumble in And make the Water ...
Were I not a patriot, which of course I am, I would explain just how the term remains a sticking ...
It grew out of the Annexe and our Corps in a world at peace while our army trained, magnificent in ...
My maternal grandparents were snowbirds; the scent of their plumage an evergreen air freshener dangling off the rearview mirror of ...
The turquoise pool rose up to meet us, its slide a silver afterthought down which we plunged, screaming, into a ...
"Lord, being dark," I said, "I cannot bear The further touch of earth, the scented air; Lord, being dark, forewilled ...
My father is a quiet man With sober, steady ways; For simile, a folded fan; His nights are like his ...
There are certain things -a spider, a ghost, The income-tax, gout, an umbrella for three - That I hate, but ...
There are certain things--as, a spider, a ghost, The income-tax, gout, an umbrella for three-- That I hate, but the ...
To at last be indestructible, a poem must first glow, almost flammable, upon a thing inert, as gray, as dull ...
Now as an angler melancholy standing Upon a green bank yielding room for landing, A wriggling yellow worm thrust on ...
The girt woak tree that's in the dell ! There's noo tree I do love so well; Vor times an' ...
The girt woak tree that's in the dell ! There's noo tree I do love so well; Vor times an' ...
crawl toward the machine guns except to freeze for explosions and flares. It was still ninety degrees at night in ...
A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot! Rose plot, Fringed pool, Ferned grot-- The veriest school Of peace; and ...
I. THE GARDEN. ABOVE the city hung the moon, Right o'er a plot of ground Where flowers and orchard-trees were ...
In your arms was still delight, Quiet as a street at night; And thoughts of you, I do remember, Were ...
In a flowered dell the Lady Venus stood, Amazed with sorrow. Down the morning one Far golden horn in the ...
In a flowered dell the Lady Venus stood, Amazed with sorrow. Down the morning one Far golden horn in the ...
(France -- Ancient Regime.) I. Go away! Go away; I will not confess to you! His black biretta clings like ...
"Oh yes, I went over to Edmonstoun the other day and saw Johnny, mooning around as usual! He will never ...
I lie stretched out upon the window-seat And doze, and read a page or two, and doze, And feel the ...
ANOTHER METHOD OF MAKING WALNUT CATSUP And this is a very small cookbook for Trout Fishing in America as if ...
SEA, SEA RIDER The man who owned the bookstore was not magic. He was not a three-legged crow on the ...
THE AUTOPSY OF TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA This is the autopsy of Trout Fishing in America as if Trout Fishing ...
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