The Old Gray Wall (Bliss Carman Poem)
Time out of mind I have stood Fronting the frost and the sun, That the dream of the world might ...
Time out of mind I have stood Fronting the frost and the sun, That the dream of the world might ...
I like the old house tolerably well, Where I must dwell Like a familiar gnome; And yet I never shall ...
He said that he had hurt himself on a wall or that he had fallen. But there was probably another ...
In memory of Father Flye, 1884-1985 The strange and wonderful are too much with us. The protea of the antipodes-a ...
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
Cool summer nights. Windows open. Lamps burning. Fruit in the bowl. And your head on my shoulder. These the happiest ...
So early it's still almost dark out. I'm near the window with coffee, and the usual early morning stuff that ...
The door it opened slowly, my father he came in, I was nine years old. And he stood so tall ...
(After Lorca) Now in Vienna there are ten pretty women. There's a shoulder where death comes to cry. There's a ...
FROM his shoulder Hiawatha Took the camera of rosewood, Made of sliding, folding rosewood; Neatly put it all together. In ...
From his shoulder Hiawatha Took the camera of rosewood, Made of sliding, folding rosewood; Neatly put it all together. In ...
From his shoulder Hiawatha Took the camera of rosewood, Made of sliding, folding rosewood; Neatly put it all together. In ...
The Beaver's Lesson They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope; ...
A short direction To avoid dejection, By variations In occupations, And prolongation Of relaxation, And combinations Of recreations, And disputation ...
Dedication Inscribed to a dear Child: in memory of golden summer hours and whispers of a summer sea. Girt with ...
You know the brick path in the back of the house, the one you see from the kitchen window, the ...
In the usual iconography of the temple or the local Wok you would never see him doing such a thing, ...
The Renaissance men are aging now, having survived Industrialization's Original Sin and the Information Age flood; The need for specialization ...
When sycamore leaves wer a-spreaden Green-ruddy in hedges, Bezide the red doust o' the ridges, A-dried at Woak Hill; I ...
A glint of her hair or a flash of her shoulder - That is the most I can boast to ...
A full-fledged gun cannot endure The trifling of an amateur; Poor marksmanship its temper spoils And this is why the ...
When sycamore leaves wer a-spreaden Green-ruddy in hedges, Bezide the red doust o' the ridges, A-dried at Woak Hill; I ...
A girl sang a song in the temple's chorus, About men, tired in alien lands, About the ships that left ...
Love is a breach in the walls, a broken gate, Where that comes in that shall not go again; Love ...
"Oh yes, I went over to Edmonstoun the other day and saw Johnny, mooning around as usual! He will never ...
WORSEWICK Worsewick Hot Springs was nothing fancy. Somebody put some boards across the creek. That was it. The boards dammed ...
SEA, SEA RIDER The man who owned the bookstore was not magic. He was not a three-legged crow on the ...
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
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