Ode To The Confederate Dead (Allen Tate Poems)
Row after row with strict impunityThe headstones yield their names to the element,The wind whirs without recollection;In the riven troughs ...
Row after row with strict impunityThe headstones yield their names to the element,The wind whirs without recollection;In the riven troughs ...
Why is my soul with weariness oppress'd,Whence is this load so heavy on my breast?Why is the tear so often ...
With their harsh leaves old rhododendrons fillThe crevices in grave plots' broken stones.The bees renew the blossoms they destroy,While in ...
In ev'ry thing that happens search you mindAnd try what force, what faculties you findFor the encounter of the object ...
777The Loneliness One dare not sound-And would as soon surmiseAs in its Grave go plumbingTo ascertain the size-The Loneliness whose ...
BOOK I Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn, Far from ...
One more Unfortunate, Weary of breath, Rashly importunate, Gone to her death! Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care; ...
How will the case go How will we ever know It depends On the totality of the circumstances The best ...
WHEN William went from home (a trader styled): Six months his better half he left with child, A simple, comely, ...
I Midwinter spring is its own season Sempiternal though sodden towards sundown, Suspended in time, between pole and tropic. When ...
This Dust, and its Feature -- Accredited -- Today -- Will in a second Future -- Cease to identify -- ...
The right to perish might be thought An undisputed right -- Attempt it, and the Universe Upon the opposite Will ...
The Loneliness One dare not sound -- And would as soon surmise As in its Grave go plumbing To ascertain ...
Judgment is justest When the Judged, His action laid away, Divested is of every Disk But his sincerity. Honor is ...
As One does Sickness over In convalescent Mind, His scrutiny of Chances By blessed Health obscured -- As One rewalks ...
Whose cheek is this? What rosy face Has lost a blush today? I found her -- "pleiad" -- in the ...
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
Thou know'st my praise of nature most sincere, And that my raptures are not conjur'd up To serve occasions of ...
In a vision of the night I saw them, In the battles of the night. 'Mid the roar and the ...
LARA. CANTO THE FIRST. I. The Serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain, And slavery half forgets her ...
Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown ...
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