The Shadow (Amy Lowell Poem)
Paul Jannes was working very late, For this watch must be done by eight To-morrow or the Cardinal Would certainly ...
Paul Jannes was working very late, For this watch must be done by eight To-morrow or the Cardinal Would certainly ...
A drifting, April, twilight sky, A wind which blew the puddles dry, And slapped the river into waves That ran ...
The cloakroom pegs are empty now, And locked the classroom door, The hollow desks are lined with dust, And slow ...
The boy cleared out to the city from his home at harvest time -- They were Scots of the Riverina, ...
Three bushmen one morning rode up to an inn, And one of them called for the drinks with a grin; ...
It was built of bark and poles, and the floor was full of holes Where each leak in rainy weather ...
1 You scream, waking from a nightmare. When I sleepwalk into your room, and pick you up, and hold you ...
We are very slightly changed From the semi-apes who ranged India's Prehistoric clay; He that drew the longest bow Ran ...
Read here: This is the story of Evarra -- man -- Maker of Gods in lands beyond the sea. Because ...
It was an artless Bandar, and he danced upon a pine, And much I wondered how he lived, and where ...
When the flush of a new-born sun fell first on Eden's green and gold, Our father Adam sat under the ...
A piece of bone, found at Trondhjem in 1901, with the following runic inscription (about A.D. 1050) cut on it: ...
Crossing the frontier they were stopped in time, Told, quite politely, they would have to wait: Passports in order, nothing ...
Late August, given heavy rain and sun For a full week, the blackberries would ripen. At first, just one, a ...
I Jesús, Estrella, Esperanza, Mercy: Sails flashing to the wind like weapons, sharks following the moans the fever and the ...
Under silver wing San Francisco's towers sprouting thru thin gas clouds, Tamalpais black-breasted above Pacific azure Berkeley hills pine-covered below-- ...
Each poem, each post, each email send out into the ether, the internet, the realm of cyberspace, each one a ...
One Word ancient yet living deeper meanings in the telling The same scripture packaged and primped for different lessons each ...
After the separation of death one can eventually swallow back one's grief, but the separation of the living is an ...
In England once there lived a big And wonderfully clever pig. To everybody it was plain That Piggy had a ...
We came to find the place contained in legendary tracts, the hidden land of fulsome wealth that we had sorely ...
Who was cursed with the Sin of Pride, and Became a Boot-Black. Godolphin Horne was Nobly Born; He held the ...
I am poor brother Lippo, by your leave! You need not clap your torches to my face. Zooks, what's to ...
"Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thyself." (David, Psalms 50.21) ['Will sprawl, now that the heat ...
A Child's Story Hamelin Town's in Brunswick, By famous Hanover city; The river Weser, deep and wide, Washes its wall ...
I caught a tremendous fish and held him beside the boat half out of water, with my hook fast in ...
alas our good kaspar is dead. who will bury a burning flag in the wings of the clouds who will ...
The first of the undecoded messages read: "Popeye sits in thunder, Unthought of. From that shoebox of an apartment, From ...
To be intoned, all but the two italicized lines, which are to be spoken in a snappy, matter-of-fact way. Ding-dong, ...
"So pulse, and pulse, thou rhythmic-hearted Noon That liest, large-limbed, curved along the hills, In languid palpitation, half a-swoon With ...
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