Middle Passage (Robert Hayden Poem)
I Jesús, Estrella, Esperanza, Mercy: Sails flashing to the wind like weapons, sharks following the moans the fever and the ...
I Jesús, Estrella, Esperanza, Mercy: Sails flashing to the wind like weapons, sharks following the moans the fever and the ...
'Twas on a lofty vase's side, Where China's gayest art had dyed The azure flowers that blow, Demurest of the ...
Maybe it is the memories the change of pace that brings us there our sense of vacation maybe the smell ...
Dry in the forest before the first snowfall the leaves of autumn heavy on the ground The barrenness of November ...
A foggy day on the ocean, my feet in the warm surf, feeling the water lapping, the movement of the ...
For a few days, wonderful days this was our island, a refuge, a retreat escape from the day to day, ...
Sweet maple syrup, bitter radish, salad greens Tart lemon, juicy fruits Sour rhubarb, creamy sauces Raw meat, flaky fish rich ...
Smooth glass, clear, or in the prism's spectrum Cool of polished marble in Washington's monuments smooth of a baby's skin, ...
Down by the river, we played, dreamed, explored alone and together, bikes left by the rock piles, Climbing, hiking, claiming ...
Before we went in, before the start of the show The harbor seals made me laugh that innocent, genuine laugh ...
A slower pace On the Banks Palmettos sway Translucent green Or tawny papyrus brown Mesmerize A northerner Away from the ...
Words - Incendiary exacerbate Infant broken Tarnished valued Beautiful infinite Frozen rush Red green Precipice void Rough smooth Slippery taste ...
Now that they've got it settled whose I be, I'm going to tell them something they won't like: They've got ...
Brown lived at such a lofty farm That everyone for miles could see His lantern when he did his chores ...
I. Soon Of all the springtimes of the world This one is the ugliest Of all of my ways of ...
Farewell, too little and too lately known, Whom I began to think and call my own; For sure our souls ...
I IN EXCELSIS Two dwellings, Peace, are thine. One is the mountain-height, Uplifted in the loneliness of light Beyond the ...
HE crawls to the cliff and plays on a brink Where every eye but his own would shrink; No music ...
Behind faces and gestures We remain mute And spoken words heavy With what we ignore or keep silent Betray us ...
Sent off to boarding school at twelve, with a pair of oxfords, a pair of patents, my sterling silver christening ...
WE saw Thee in Thy balmy nest, Young dawn of our eternal day; We saw Thine eyes break from the ...
CHORUS Come we shepherds whose blest sight Hath met love's noon in nature's night; Come lift we up our loftier ...
LO here a little volume, but great Book A nest of new-born sweets; Whose native fires disdaining To ly thus ...
Behind faces and gestures We remain mute And spoken words heavy With what we ignore or keep silent Betray us ...
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
'Twas after dread Pultowa's day, When fortune left the royal Swede - Around a slaughtered army lay, No more to ...
I. Said Abner, ``At last thou art come! Ere I tell, ere thou speak, ``Kiss my cheek, wish me well!'' ...
(PIANO DI SORRENTO.) Fortu, Frotu, my beloved one, Sit here by my side, On my knees put up both little ...
WHAT thing shall be held up to woman's beauty? Where are the bounds of it? Yea, what is all The ...
Zeus, Brazen-thunder-hurler, Cloud-whirler, son-of-Kronos, Send vengeance on these Oreads Who strew White frozen flecks of mist and cloud Over the ...
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