The Meeting (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
The elder folks shook hands at last,Down seat by seat the signal passed.To simple ways like ours unused,Half solemnized and ...
The elder folks shook hands at last,Down seat by seat the signal passed.To simple ways like ours unused,Half solemnized and ...
'Am I, at bottom, that fervent little Spanish Catholic child who chastised herself for loving toys, who forbade herself the ...
Hills are spiralling Into chrysoprase, Eager to be stolidlyPosturing haze.Edges of the world Ever should be far; Sand is not fair linen,Rock a star. ...
THE BODY Call in the dancers. THE SOUL All is vain. We live, and living is the pain We die ...
Trembling Creation's omnipresent sun,Immanent Harmonist, Whose rhythms run.Alike where midge pursues his swift romance,Or grave stars cluster for their midnight ...
We sit together and talk, or smoke in silence.You say (but use no words) 'this night is passingAs other nights ...
I can not recall his heyday; for I knew him in the dayWhen his curly hair had thinned a bit, ...
At the risk of seeming silly,I would ask you, "Where is Billy?" Here's a crisis, here's a fight, And he's ...
No glittering chaplet brought from other lands!As in his life, this man, in death, is ours;His own loved prairies o'er ...
BEHOLD,The time is now! Bring back, bring backThy flocks of fancies, wild of whim.Oh lead them from the mountain-track -Thy ...
EACH nation as it draws the sword And flings its standard to the air Petitions piously the Lord -- Vexing ...
Only if God wishes the future we plan for life's days numbered by the one who knows all All of ...
Perfect droplets cling to the purple skin the liquid flesh of the tulip bloom holding on, for moments more before ...
We sit together and talk, or smoke in silence. You say (but use no words) 'this night is passing As ...
We'd gained our first objective hours before While dawn broke like a face with blinking eyes, Pallid, unshaved and thirsty, ...
"Am I, at bottom, that fervent little Spanish Catholic child who chastised herself for loving toys, who forbade herself the ...
People were bathing and posturing themselves on the beach, and all was dreary, great robot limbs, robot breasts, robot voices, ...
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