Cassandra (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
The mad girl with the staring eyes and long white fingers Hooked in the stones of the wall, The storm-wrack ...
The mad girl with the staring eyes and long white fingers Hooked in the stones of the wall, The storm-wrack ...
Have you heard of one Humpty Dumpty How he fell with a roll and a rumble And curled up like ...
When I a verse shall make, Know I have pray'd thee, For old religion's sake, Saint Ben to aid me. ...
My wearied heart bade me farewell and left for the House of Fortune. As he reached that holy city which ...
So much of our faith that which is eternal the dogma we believe without a certain creed Something inside something ...
A reminder in the message in hearing our differences but the similarities the painful truth too that each religion each ...
ONCE more permit me, nuns, and this the last; I can't resist, whatever may have passed, But must relate, what ...
Good Heav'n, I thank thee, since it was design'd I shou'd be fram'd, but of the weaker kinde, That yet, ...
Man was made of social earth, Child and brother from his birth; Tethered by a liquid cord Of blood through ...
In what torn ship soever I embark, That ship shall be my emblem of thy Ark; What sea soever swallow ...
Ourselves we do inter with sweet derision. The channel of the dust who once achieves Invalidates the balm of that ...
The events of September 11th 2001 remain bitter sweet; as well as 2973 innocents confirmed dead (with their 19 terrorist ...
The Rev. Isaiah Bunter has disappeared into the interior of the Solomon Islands, and it is feared that he may ...
Says Tom to Jack, 'tis very odd, These representatives of God, In color, way of life and evil, Should be ...
Hark! 'tis the twanging horn! O'er yonder bridge, That with its wearisome but needful length Bestrides the wintry flood, in ...
The opposite seeks the opposite and the drop of black grows within white until turning white into black and conversely ...
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
Here among long-discarded cassocks, Damp stools, and half-split open hassocks, Here where the vicar never looks I nibble through old ...
Lough, vessel, plough the British main, Seek the free ocean's wider plain; Leave English scenes and English skies, Unbind, dissever ...
THIS last denial of my faith, Thou, solemn Priest, hast heard; And, though upon my bed of death, I call ...
O Liberty, God-gifted-- Young and immortal maid-- In your high hand uplifted, The torch declares your trade. Its crimson menace, ...
Eliza, what fools are the Mussulman sect, Who to woman deny the soul's future existence! Could they see thee, Eliza, ...
I. You're my friend: I was the man the Duke spoke to; I helped the Duchess to cast off his ...
I am poor brother Lippo, by your leave! You need not clap your torches to my face. Zooks, what's to ...
BY all I lov'd, neglected and forgot, No friendly face e'er lights my squalid cot; Shunn'd, hated, wrong'd, unpitied, unredrest, ...
MY lov'd, my honour'd, much respected friend! No mercenary bard his homage pays; With honest pride, I scorn each selfish ...
I don't know somehow it seems sufficient to see and hear whatever coming and going is, losing the self to ...
An Arab shepherd is searching for his goat on Mount Zion And on the opposite hill I am searching for ...
The Master stood upon the mount, and taught. He saw a fire in his disciples' eyes; 'The old law', they ...
The vision of Christ that thou dost see Is my vision's greatest enemy. Thine has a great hook nose like ...
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