Sacrifices (Richard Jones Poem)
All winter the fire devoured everything -- tear-stained elegies, old letters, diaries, dead flowers. When April finally arrived, I opened ...
All winter the fire devoured everything -- tear-stained elegies, old letters, diaries, dead flowers. When April finally arrived, I opened ...
For Heinrich Blucher and Hannah Arendt Composed in the Tower before his execution These moving verses, and being brought at ...
"You ought to have seen what I saw on my way To the village, through Mortenson's pasture to-day: Blueberries as ...
'Twas the night before Christmas, when all thro' the house, Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The ...
S'io credesse che mia risposta fosse A persona che mai tornasse al mondo, Questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse. Ma ...
Part I It is an ancient Mariner, And he stoppeth one of three. 'By thy long grey beard and glittering ...
I watched the winter light die from the bridge, the sky a sinking empire's battleship, ice floes' jagged edges clink ...
Holding with shaking hands a letter from some Official - high up he says in the Ministry, I note that ...
Gaily into Ruislip Gardens Runs the red electric train, With a thousand Ta's and Pardon's Daintily alights Elaine; Hurries down ...
The Scorpion is as black as soot, He dearly loves to bite; He is a most unpleasant brute To find ...
When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue, Could scarcely cry ...
The mule-skinner was Bill Jerome, the passengers were three; Two tinhorns from the dives of Nome, and Father Tim McGee. ...
RINGS of iron gray smoke; a woman's steel face . looking . looking. Funnels of an ocean liner negotiating a ...
The Orange bears with soft friendly eyes Who played with me when I was ten, Christ, before I'd left home ...
(published on BLINKING EYE, http://www.blinking-eye.co.uk/writer/padel2.html ) Then spoke the thunder, shattering the looming blackness of our national life. The rumble ...
In Baltimore there lived a boy. He wasn't anybody's joy. Although his name was Jabez Dawes, His character was full ...
WHEN by Zeus relenting the mandate was revoked, Sentencing to exile the bright Sun-God, Mindful were the ploughmen of who ...
I have two monuments besides this granite obelisk: One, the house I built on the hill, With its spires, bay ...
Mean while the heinous and despiteful act Of Satan, done in Paradise; and how He, in the serpent, had perverted ...
"Twas the night before Christmas, when all thro' the house, Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The ...
When the Lieutenant of the Guardia de Asalto heard the automatic go off, he turned and took the second shot ...
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