Invisible Work (Alison Luterman Poems)
Because no one could ever praise me enough,because I don't mean these poems onlybut the unseenunbelievable effort it takes to ...
Because no one could ever praise me enough,because I don't mean these poems onlybut the unseenunbelievable effort it takes to ...
"Now Muse, you must versify your very best, To sing how they ransack the East and the West, To tell how they ...
Were I a clumsy poetI'd compare you to Helen;Ransack the mythologiesGreek, Chinese and PersianFor a goddess vehementAnd slim: one with ...
A SCOTS PASTORAL INSCRIBED TO JOHN WILKES, ESQ. Nos patriam fugimus.--VIRGIL.When Cupid first instructs his darts to flyFrom the sly ...
Accursed the man, whom Fate ordains, in spite,And cruel parents teach, to read and write!What need of letters? wherefore should ...
Worldlings we court not, envy not, nor fear; May Friends to Vertue lend their Ear: While Sinners split on shelves, ...
HIM, wounded, shackled, pricked with spears,they dragged and goaded through thetown.Up the soaked hill 'neath dripping boughs, acrosssteep ditches slipping ...
"The NewsTHE NEWS! our morning, noon, evening cry, Day unto day repeats it till we die. For this the cit, ...
Muse! Rise, and plume thy Feet, and let's convers This Mor'n together: Let's rehers Last Evening's Sweets; and run one ...
The moon rides high in a starry sky,And, through the midnight gloom,A faery scene of woodland greenHer silver rays illume.Dark ...
Ya summer day when I were mowin', When flooers of monny soorts were growin', Which fast befoor my scythe fell ...
There be poets in plenty have sung in the praiseOf the famous old names out of Old Navy days,Of Victory, ...
A Greedy Heir long waited to fulfill, As his Executor, a Kinsman's Will; And to himself his Age repeated o'er, ...
Now, in a breath, we'll burst those gates of gold, And ransack heaven before our moment fails. Now, in ...
NAME the heathen god of war,Name Minerva's pride;Then from Grecia steer afar,And rest on Tiber's side.--Think of him whom Brutus ...
WILLIAM Dewy, Tranter Reuben, Farmer Ledlow late at plough, Robert's kin, and John's, and Ned's, And the Squire, and Lady ...
A Greedy Heir long waited to fulfill, As his Executor, a Kinsman's Will; And to himself his Age repeated o'er, ...
A witless gallant a young wench that woo'd (Yet his dull spirit her not one jot could move), Entreated me, ...
I cautious, scanned my little life -- I winnowed what would fade From what would last till Heads like mine ...
LARA. CANTO THE FIRST. I. The Serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain, And slavery half forgets her ...
Now warm with ministerial ire, Fierce sallied forth our loyal 'Squire, And on his striding steps attends His desperate clan ...
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