1926 (Weldon Kees Poem)
The porchlight coming on again, Early November, the dead leaves Raked in piles, the wicker swing Creaking. Across the lots ...
The porchlight coming on again, Early November, the dead leaves Raked in piles, the wicker swing Creaking. Across the lots ...
THE sun had wheeled from Grey's to Dammer's Crest, And still I mused on that Thing imminent: At length I ...
In the fairy tale the sky makes of itself a coat because it needs you to put it on. How ...
Under the leaf litter the matted grass green shoots new life, pushing skyward out of the awakening earth the cycle ...
I'll tell of Canute, King of England, A native of Denmark was he, His hobbies was roving and raiding And ...
Where were you Shirley of the Sanguine Lake? Where did you disappear? The echoes of your empty house Were almost ...
One year ago I wished that I A banker great might be With a hundred million dollars And financial majesty; ...
Comrades, many a year and day Have fled since that glorious 9th of May When we made the charge at ...
1.1 Lo now! four other acts upon the stage, 1.2 Childhood, and Youth, the Manly, and Old-age. 1.3 The first: ...
I had a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars Did wander ...
Si credere dignum est.--Virgil, Georgics, III, 390 Oh, worthy of belief I hold it was, Virgil, your legend in those ...
The sun that brief December day Rose cheerless over hills of gray, And, darkly circled, gave at noon A sadder ...
Maud Muller on a summer's day Raked the meadow sweet with hay. Beneath her torn hat glowed the wealth Of ...
(May I lie in peace) Let there be grass and trees to blow And fold me in their shadow Branches ...
Their strength had fed on this when Death's white arms Came sleeved in vapors and miasmal dew, Curling across the ...
This is the tale that was told to me by the man with the crystal eye, As I smoked my ...
1 You, once a belle in Shreveport, with henna-colored hair, skin like a peachbud, still have your dresses copied from ...
The run of Billabong-go-dry Is just beyond Lime Burner's Gap; Its waterhole and tank supply Is excellent -- upon the ...
Ye sons of Mars, come list to me, And I will relate to ye A great and heroic naval fight, ...
Ye Sons of Great Britain, pray list to me, And I'll tell ye of a great victory. Where the British ...
I wanted to go away to college But rich Aunt Persis wouldn't help me. So I made gardens and raked ...
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