Warning (Jenny Joseph Poem)
When I am an old woman I shall wear purple With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit ...
When I am an old woman I shall wear purple With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit ...
Her imaginary playmate was a grown-up In sea-coal satin. The flame-blue glances, The wings gauzy as the membrane that the ...
Despite the noon sun shimmering on Court Street, each day I leave my desk, and window-shop, waste time, and use ...
Night funeral In Harlem: Where did they get Them two fine cars? Insurance man, he did not pay-- His insurance ...
ALL is over! fleet career, Dash of greyhound slipping thongs, Flight of falcon, bound of deer, Mad hoof-thunder in our ...
The crushed rose gathered yet so much living yet resting on the sleeve of my jacket taken off for the ...
A dented spider like a snow drop white On a white Heal-all, holding up a moth Like a white piece ...
I found a dimpled spider, fat and white, On a white heal-all, holding up a moth Like a white piece ...
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot "Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et ...
Not a red rose or a satin heart. I give you an onion. It is a moon wrapped in brown ...
So like a flower and a current of air the flow of water fleeting shadows the smile glimpsed at midnight ...
There is strength in proving that it can be borne Although it tear -- What are the sinews of such ...
These -- saw Visions -- Latch them softly -- These -- held Dimples -- Smooth them slow -- This -- ...
Sweet -- safe -- Houses -- Glad -- gay -- Houses -- Sealed so stately tight -- Lids of Steel ...
Portraits are to daily faces As an Evening West, To a fine, pedantic sunshine -- In a satin Vest! (Emily ...
I tend my flowers for thee -- Bright Absentee! My Fuchsia's Coral Seams Rip -- while the Sower -- dreams ...
I think the Hemlock likes to stand Upon a Marge of Snow -- It suits his own Austerity -- And ...
I pay -- in Satin Cash -- You did not state -- your price -- A Petal, for a Paragraph ...
Civilization -- spurns -- the Leopard! Was the Leopard -- bold? Deserts -- never rebuked her Satin -- Ethiop -- ...
A curious Cloud surprised the Sky, 'Twas like a sheet with Horns; The sheet was Blue -- The Antlers Gray ...
Through lane it lay -- through bramble -- Through clearing and through wood -- Banditti often passed us Upon the ...
Safe in their Alabaster Chambers -- Untouched my Morning And untouched by Noon -- Sleep the meek members of the ...
...Preamble A rough draft for an ars poetica . . . . . . . Let's get our dreams unstuck ...
First the Governor, the Father: He suggested velvet curtains looped about a massy pillar; And the corner of a table, ...
From his shoulder Hiawatha Took the camera of rosewood, Made of sliding, folding rosewood; Neatly put it all together. In ...
From his shoulder Hiawatha Took the camera of rosewood, Made of sliding, folding rosewood; Neatly put it all together. In ...
(France -- Ancient Regime.) I. Go away! Go away; I will not confess to you! His black biretta clings like ...
"Oh yes, I went over to Edmonstoun the other day and saw Johnny, mooning around as usual! He will never ...
What shall we talk of? Li Po? Hokusai? You narrow your long dark eyes to fascinate me; You smile a ...
Something strange is creeping across me. La Celestina has only to warble the first few bars Of "I Thought about ...
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