In The Cold Night (Edward Powys Mathers Poems)
Translated From the Chinese of Yuan Mei (1715-1797).Reading in my book this cold night,I have forgotten to go to sleep.The ...
Translated From the Chinese of Yuan Mei (1715-1797).Reading in my book this cold night,I have forgotten to go to sleep.The ...
The old manleaves his house, carries books.A German soldier snatches his booksflings them in the mud.The old man picks them ...
I How the slates of the roof sparkle in the sun, over there, over there, beyond the high wall! How ...
The nursery fire burns brightly, crackling in cheerful little explosions and trails of sparks up the back of the chimney. ...
I If seasons all were summers, And leaves would never fall, And hopping casement-comers Were foodless not at all, And ...
just as the dusk comes hooting down through the shivering black leaves of the swinging trees we (the brave ones ...
For Carl Solomon I I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves ...
'A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a ...
Over and over, like a Tune -- The Recollection plays -- Drums off the Phantom Battlements Cornets of Paradise -- ...
LARA. CANTO THE FIRST. I. The Serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain, And slavery half forgets her ...
Moving from left to left, the light is heavy on the Dome, and coarse. One small lunette turns it aside ...
S. Patrick. You who are bent, and bald, and blind, With a heavy heart and a wandering mind, Have known ...
Shall the great soul of Newton quit this earth, To mingle with his stars; and every muse, Astonish'd into silence, ...
It was Karl Shapiro who wrote in his 'Defence of Ignorance' how many poets Go mad or seem to be ...
Remember midsummer: the fragrance of box, of white roses And of phlox. And upon a honeysuckle branch Three snails hanging ...
BVt let stil Silence trew night watches keepe, That sacred peace may in assurance rayne, And tymely sleep, when it ...
YE learned sisters, which have oftentimes Beene to me ayding, others to adorne, Whom ye thought worthy of your gracefull ...
Before those cruel twins whom at one birth Incestuous Change bore to her father Time, Error and Truth, had hunted ...
I LOOKED one night, and there the Semiramis, With all her mourning doves about her head, Sat rocking on an ...
O all ye exorcizers come and exorcize now, and ye clergymen draw nigh and clerge, For I wish to be ...
It was three slim does and a ten-tined buck in the bracken lay; And all of a sudden the sinister ...
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