A Christmas Colloquy (John Crowe Ransom Poems)
THE country farmer has his joys Of little city girls and boys When brother Thomas brings his brood Of motherless brats in Christmas ...
THE country farmer has his joys Of little city girls and boys When brother Thomas brings his brood Of motherless brats in Christmas ...
Ugliest little boythat everyone ever saw.That is what everyone said.Even to his mother it was apparent-when the blue-aproned nurse came ...
Tonight when I knelt down next to our cat, Zooey,And put my fingers into her clean cat's mouth,And rubbed her ...
Listen, my children, and you shall hearThe midnight activities of Whats-his Name,Scarcely a general now known to fameCan tell you ...
'Hoity-toity! Hop-o'-my-thumb!Tweedledee and Tweedledum!All hobgoblins come to me,Over the mountains, over the sea:Come in a hurry, come in a crowd,Flying, ...
Now what do you want to be playing about for,Reefing and reaching your head for the bit?This is the gentlest ...
Triangular Tommy, one morning in May, Went out for a walk on the public highway. Just here I will ...
YOUTH is the season of revolt; at twenty-fiveWe curse the reigning politicians,Wondering that any man aliveStands for such damnable conditions.Whatever ...
Gentlemen! a politician,One who values his position,Stands, with easy confidence,Here before you on the fence.For he knows full well, good ...
Across the sands of Syria,Or possibly Algeria,Or some benighted neighborhood of barrenness and drouth,There came the Prophet Samu-u-elUpon the Only ...
Have pity now, have pity now on me,If you at least would, friends of mine.I'm in the depths, not holly ...
Picassoyou give us Thingswhichbulge:grunting lungs pumped full of sharp thick mindyou make us shrillpresents alwaysshut in the sumptuous screech ofsimplicity(out ...
This 'appened in a battle to a batt'ry of the corps Which is first among the women an' amazin' first ...
We had another day of Christmas more family time, more presents, another big meal, another house full of squeals for ...
They are downstairs, away from my office romping and shouting, in the living room I hear their squeals, their play, ...
When the evening darkens and the day cools and the stars flicker to light I sat on the blanket with ...
A huge shoe mounts up from the horizon, squealing and grinding forward on small wheels, even as a man sitting ...
Eternally the choking steam goes up From the black pools of seething oil. . . . How merry Those little ...
The further the little girl leaped and ran, The further she longed to be; The white, white fields of jonquil ...
I. THE LION The Lion is a kingly beast. He likes a Hindu for a feast. And if no Hindu ...
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