Lizards And Snakes (Anthony Hecht Poem)
On the summer road that ran by our front porch Lizards and snakes came out to sun. It was hot ...
On the summer road that ran by our front porch Lizards and snakes came out to sun. It was hot ...
Reading the menu at the morning service: - Iced Venusberg perhaps, or buttered bum - Orders the usual sex-ersatz, and, ...
It faces west, and round the back and sides High beeches, bending, hang a veil of boughs, And sweep against ...
stylised tulips - this is what the card says and they have that nineteen-twenties' feel of those bright young things ...
Leave me, my blamer, For the sake of the love Which unites your soul with That of your beloved one; ...
Dunes of white greet my gaze from my office window snow drifted in the lee of the third story, the ...
I'd like to be a cowboy an' ride a fiery hoss Way out into the big an' boundless west; I'd ...
I ain't afeard uv snakes, or toads, or bugs, or worms, or mice, An' things 'at girls are skeered uv ...
In seventeen hundred, a much hated sultan visited us twice, finally dying of headaches in the south harbor. Ever since, ...
'Twas at the royal feast for Persia won By Philip's warlike son- Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sate ...
The Ekka institution bares us all, though call it Exhibition, Royal Queensland Show, it's that time of year when you ...
Under what withering leprous light The very grass as hair is grey, Grass in the cracks of the paven courts ...
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
Velvet soft the night-star glowed Over the untrodden road, Through the giant glades of yew ...
"I will arise and go unto my father" MALKUTH Dark, dark all dark! I cower, I cringe. ...
Jupiter Mars P Moon VENEZIA, "May" 19"th", 1910. Jupiter's foursquare blaze of gold and blue Rides on the moon, a ...
Velvet soft the night-star glowed Over the untrodden road, Through the giant glades of yew ...
"Aug." 10, 1911. Full moon to-night; and six and twenty years Since my full moon first broke from angel spheres! ...
"I will arise and go unto my father" MALKUTH Dark, dark all dark! I cower, I cringe. ...
"Aug." 10, 1911. Full moon to-night; and six and twenty years Since my full moon first broke from angel spheres! ...
Jupiter Mars P Moon VENEZIA, "May" 19"th", 1910. Jupiter's foursquare blaze of gold and blue Rides on the moon, a ...
On the desert A silence from the moon's deepest valley. Fire rays fall athwart the robes Of hooded men, squat ...
What is Africa to me: Copper sun or scarlet sea, Jungle star or jungle track, Strong bronzed men, or regal ...
As cats bring their smiling mouse-kills and hypnotised birds, slinking home under the light of a summer's morning to offer ...
Every month or so, Sundays, we walked the line, The limit and the boundary. Past the sweet gum Superb above ...
A RETURN TO THE COVER OF THIS BOOK Dear Trout Fishing in America: I met your friend Fritz in Washington ...
I've a Friend, over the sea; I like him, but he loves me. It all grew out of the books ...
Far, far from here, The Adriatic breaks in a warm bay Among the green Illyrian hills; and there The sunshine ...
I. I stand on the mark beside the shore Of the first white pilgrim's bended knee, Where exile turned to ...
The cypress stood up like a church That night we felt our love would hold, And saintly moonlight seemed to ...
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