Thesaurus (Billy Collins Poem)
It could be the name of a prehistoric beast that roamed the Paleozoic earth, rising up on its hind legs ...
It could be the name of a prehistoric beast that roamed the Paleozoic earth, rising up on its hind legs ...
This is a day of happiness, sweet peace, And heavenly sunshine; upon which conven'd In full assembly fair, once more ...
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
The castle clock had tolled midnight: With mattock and with spade, And silent, by the torches' light, His corse in ...
EVENING, as slow thy placid shades descend, Veiling with gentlest hush the landscape still, The lonely battlement, and farthest hill ...
Passer-by, these are words. But instead of reading I want you to listen: to this frail Voice like that of ...
With one consuming roar along the shingle The long wave claws and rakes the pebbles down To where its backwash ...
The shades of night was fallin' slow As through New York a guy did go And nail on ev'ry barroom ...
The only thing I miss about Los Angeles is the Hollywood Freeway at midnight, windows down and radio blaring bearing ...
'The mist is resting on the hill; The smoke is hanging in the air; The very clouds are standing still: ...
Fair was the evening and brightly the sun Was shining on desert and grove, Sweet were the breezes and balmy ...
1 They that in play can do the thing they would, Having an instinct throned in reason's place, --And every ...
Awake, my heart, to be loved, awake, awake! The darkness silvers away, the morn doth break, It leaps in the ...
The perilous yellow sun follows with its slant eyes masts of the shuddered grove steaming up to capsize in the ...
Lough, vessel, plough the British main, Seek the free ocean's wider plain; Leave English scenes and English skies, Unbind, dissever ...
NOT in scorn do I reprove thee, Not in pride thy vows I waive, But, believe, I could not love ...
Stranger, if thou hast learned a truth which needs No school of long experience, that the world Is full of ...
Here, where love's stuff is body, arm and side Are stabbing-sweet 'gainst chair and lamp and wall. In every touch ...
The groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the ...
I. I dream of you walking at night along the streams of the country of my birth, warm blooms and ...
Here, where men's eyes were empty and as bright As the blank windows set in glaring brick, When the wind ...
Ye scenes of my childhood, whose lov'd recollection Embitters the present, compar'd with the past; Where science first dawn'd on ...
Away, ye gay landscapes, ye garden of roses! In you let the minions of luxury rove; Restore me to the ...
I would I were a careless child, Still dwelling in my highland cave, Or roaming through the dusky wild, Or ...
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
BY QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR OF 'WAT TYLER' 'A Daniel come to judgment! ...
O muse of my heart, lover of palaces, Will you bring, when January lets loose its sleet And its black ...
UNDER the overhanging yews, The dark owls sit in solemn state, Like stranger gods; by twos and twos Their red ...
I. You're my friend: I was the man the Duke spoke to; I helped the Duchess to cast off his ...
I. How well I know what I mean to do When the long dark autumn-evenings come: And where, my soul, ...
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