The Made to Order Smile (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poem)
When a woman looks up at you with a twist about her eyes, And her brows are half uplifted in ...
When a woman looks up at you with a twist about her eyes, And her brows are half uplifted in ...
As the sweet sweat of roses in a still, As that which from chafed musk-cats' pores doth trill, As the ...
You'll find -- it when you try to die -- The Easier to let go -- For recollecting such as ...
'Tis so appalling -- it exhilarates -- So over Horror, it half Captivates -- The Soul stares after it, secure ...
Perception of an object costs Precise the Object's loss -- Perception in itself a Gain Replying to its Price -- ...
Death sets a Thing significant The Eye had hurried by Except a perished Creature Entreat us tenderly To ponder little ...
Do you mind if I write a few lines for you tonight? I'm fuelled for sure, perhaps a bit ebullient, ...
Let's talk about the weather then, would that help you take your ease? Gossip is so rare from you the ...
Black milk of daybreak we drink it at sundown we drink it at noon in the morning we drink it ...
As you set out for Ithaka hope your road is a long one, full of adventure, full of discovery. Laistrygonians, ...
White founts falling in the Courts of the sun, And the Soldan of Byzantium is smiling as they run; There ...
The sun sets in molten gold. The evening clouds form a jade disk. Where is he? Dense white mist envelops ...
LOVE, thou are absolute, sole Lord Of life and death. To prove the word, We'll now appeal to none of ...
Whoe'er she be, That not impossible she That shall command my heart and me; Where'er she lie, Locked up from ...
Nothing's certain. Crossing, on this longest day, the low-tide-uncovered isthmus, scrambling up the scree-slope of what at high tide will ...
Oh that those lips had language! Life has pass'd With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips ...
THE PROLOGUE. The Sompnour in his stirrups high he stood, Upon this Friar his hearte was so wood,* *furious That ...
Christmass is come and every hearth Makes room to give him welcome now Een want will dry its tears in ...
This is a day of happiness, sweet peace, And heavenly sunshine; upon which conven'd In full assembly fair, once more ...
I remember, it was a morning, in summer, The window was half-open, I drew near, I could see my father ...
The river stretched. It flows, idly grieves, And washes both banks. In steppe, above light clay of cliffs Rinks mourn ...
' SISTER, you've sat there all the day, Come to the hearth awhile; The wind so wildly sweeps away, The ...
I know it's a bad title but I'm giving it to myself as a gift on a day nearly canceled ...
Here in the dark, O heart; Alone with the enduring Earth, and Night, And Silence, and the warm strange smell ...
The hill pasture, an open place among the trees, tilts into the valley. The clovers and tall grasses are in ...
1 Sometime now past in the Autumnal Tide, 2 When Ph{oe}bus wanted but one hour to bed, 3 The trees ...
'Twas after dread Pultowa's day, When fortune left the royal Swede - Around a slaughtered army lay, No more to ...
Adieu, adieu! my native shore Fades o'ver the waters blue; The night-winds sigh, the breakers roar, And shrieks the wild ...
BY QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR OF 'WAT TYLER' 'A Daniel come to judgment! ...
Of all the streets that blur in to the sunset, There must be one (which, I am not sure) That ...
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