Beautiful Old Age (David Herbert Lawrence Poem)
It ought to be lovely to be old to be full of the peace that comes of experience and wrinkled ...
It ought to be lovely to be old to be full of the peace that comes of experience and wrinkled ...
A drifting, April, twilight sky, A wind which blew the puddles dry, And slapped the river into waves That ran ...
For I can snore like a bullhorn or play loud music or sit up talking with any reasonably sober Irishman ...
In the shabby train no seat is vacant. The child in the ripped mask Sprawls undisturbed in the waste Of ...
THROUGH my north window, in the wintry weather,-- My airy oriel on the river shore,-- I watch the sea-fowl as ...
(a) orihuela-time the sun in orihuela calms the dust and people glide about the streets at ease (problems left indoors ...
one morning the bone was there set in the centre of waste ground against the early morning sun the frost ...
MY DEAR LADY GRANVILLE,-- THE reluctance which must naturally be felt by any one in venturing to give to the ...
All this was written on the next day's list. On which the busyness unfurled its cursive roots, pale but effective, ...
The God separated a spirit from Himself and fashioned it into Beauty. He showered upon her all the blessings of ...
"Soyez muette pour moi, Idole contemplative..." I came home and found a lion in my living room Rushed out on ...
Beginning in silence ending in peace the words of her wisdom coming to believe Finding solace in grounding in God ...
Stumbling through life following the way of the crowd seeking satisfaction in the things of this world not in the ...
NO easy matter 'tis to hold, Against its owner's will, the fleece Who troubled by the itching smart Of Cupid's ...
FLORENTINE we now design to show;-- A greater blockhead ne'er appeared below; It seems a prudent woman he had wed, ...
TO you, my friends, allow me to detail, The feats of monks in Catalonia's vale, Where oft the holy fathers ...
WHEN Venus and Hypocrisy combine, Oft pranks are played that show a deep design; Men are but men, and friars ...
IN life oft ills from self-imprudence spring; As proof, Candaules' story we will bring; In folly's scenes the king was ...
Long long ago I went through the castle of leaves Yellowing slowly in the moss And far away barnacles clung ...
Dim, as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers, Is reason to the soul; and ...
Satisfaction -- is the Agent Of Satiety -- Want -- a quiet Commissary For Infinity. To possess, is past the ...
We talked with family last night, not mine or yours specifically but ours, the ones we love familiarly. When little ...
III. For the Creche Form 8277059, Sub-Section K I remember my mother, the day that we met, A thing I ...
Daily the cortege of crumpled defunct cars goes by by the lasagna- layered flatbed truckload: hardtop reverting to tar smudge, ...
THE PROLOGUE. WHEN folk had laughed all at this nice case Of Absolon and Hendy Nicholas, Diverse folk diversely they ...
Well, as you say, we live for small horizons: We move in crowds, we flow and talk together, Seeing so ...
From time to time, lifting his eyes, he sees The soft blue starlight through the one small window, The moon ...
As Parmigianino did it, the right hand Bigger than the head, thrust at the viewer And swerving easily away, as ...
I lived with visions for my company Instead of men and women, years ago, And found them gentle mates, nor ...
Hail, holy Light, offspring of Heaven firstborn, Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblam'd? since God ...
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