The Spirit Wooed (Philip Larkin Poem)
Once I believed in you, And then you came, Unquestionably new, as fame Had said you were. But that was ...
Once I believed in you, And then you came, Unquestionably new, as fame Had said you were. But that was ...
In those days the Evil Spirits, All the Manitos of mischief, Fearing Hiawatha's wisdom, And his love for Chibiabos, Jealous ...
Out of childhood into manhood Now had grown my Hiawatha, Skilled in all the craft of hunters, Learned in all ...
Never stoops the soaring vulture On his quarry in the desert, On the sick or wounded bison, But another vulture, ...
Three Kings came riding from far away, Melchior and Gaspar and Baltasar; Three Wise Men out of the East were ...
I was Lord of Cities very sumptuously builded. Seven roaring Cities paid me tribute from far. Ivory their outposts were--the ...
Brethren, how shall it fare with me When the war is laid aside, If it be proven that I am ...
A Rose, in tatters on the garden path, Cried out to God and murmured 'gainst His Wrath, Because a sudden ...
CHORUS: O suitably-attired-in-leather-boots Head of a traveller, wherefore seeking whom Whence by what way how purposed art thou come To ...
I Last year I called this world of gain-givings The darkest thinkable, and questioned sadly If my own land could ...
At last I entered a long dark gallery, Catacomb-lined; and ranged at the side Were the bodies of men from ...
Call it a good marriage - For no one ever questioned Her warmth, his masculinity, Their interlocking views; Except one ...
After he had questioned God attempted to cross-examine to sit in judgment of God The creator answered, not as he ...
A man of power, without control an inquisitor questioned proconsul rebuked, challenged, An innocent king, brought before him, without stain, ...
THE key, which opes the chest of hoarded gold. Unlocks the heart that favours would withhold. To this the god ...
Mary sat musing on the lamp-flame at the table Waiting for Warren. When she heard his step, She ran on ...
Thou hast committed- Fornication: but that was in another country, And besides, the wench is dead. The Jew of Malta. ...
Once, and but once found in thy company, All thy supposed escapes are laid on me; And as a thief ...
The Birds reported from the South -- A News express to Me -- A spicy Charge, My little Posts -- ...
'Tis Anguish grander than Delight 'Tis Resurrection Pain -- The meeting Bands of smitten Face We questioned to, again. 'Tis ...
I died for Beauty -- but was scarce Adjusted in the Tomb When One who died for Truth, was lain ...
Let them declare Jihad then, let them despair that I will speak the truth as I see it, and where ...
He thought he saw an Elephant, That practised on a fife: He looked again, and found it was A letter ...
He thought he saw an Elephant That practised on a fife: He looked again, and found it was A letter ...
I have questioned the loyalty of rivers in winter, their yearnings for oceans obstructed, indecisive meandering clogged by ice floes ...
'The mist is resting on the hill; The smoke is hanging in the air; The very clouds are standing still: ...
Oh destiny of Borges to have sailed across the diverse seas of the world or across that single and solitary ...
"As certain also of your own poets have said"-- (Acts 17.28) Cleon the poet (from the sprinkled isles, Lily on ...
I. How well I know what I mean to do When the long dark autumn-evenings come: And where, my soul, ...
An Old Story I It was roses, roses, all the way, With myrtle mixed in my path like mad. The ...
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