Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (John Ashbery Poem)
As Parmigianino did it, the right hand Bigger than the head, thrust at the viewer And swerving easily away, as ...
As Parmigianino did it, the right hand Bigger than the head, thrust at the viewer And swerving easily away, as ...
Something strange is creeping across me. La Celestina has only to warble the first few bars Of "I Thought about ...
Not under foreign skies Nor under foreign wings protected - I shared all this with my own people There, where ...
Memorial day for the war dead. Add now the grief of all your losses to their grief, even of a ...
Far, far from here, The Adriatic breaks in a warm bay Among the green Illyrian hills; and there The sunshine ...
Glion?--Ah, twenty years, it cuts All meaning from a name! White houses prank where once were huts. Glion, but not ...
How changed is here each spot man makes or fills! In the two Hinkseys nothing keeps the same; The village ...
In this lone, open glade I lie, Screen'd by deep boughs on either hand; And at its end, to stay ...
And the first grey of morning fill'd the east, And the fog rose out of the Oxus stream. But all ...
Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below! Now my brothers call from the bay, Now the great ...
You take my hand and I'm suddenly in a bad movie, it goes on and on and why am I ...
Some clichty folks don't know the facts, posin' and preenin' and puttin' on acts, stretchin' their backs. They move into ...
I 'But where do you go?' said the lady, while both sat under the yew, And her eyes were alive ...
When our two souls stand up erect and strong, Face to face, silent, drawing nigh and nigher, Until the lengthening ...
AFRICA I will sing you a song of Los. the Eternal Prophet: He sung it to four harps at the ...
When silver snow decks Susan's clothes, And jewel hangs at th' shepherd's nose, The blushing bank is all my care, ...
call it the greenhouse effect or whatever but it just doesn't rain like it used to. I particularly remember the ...
good weather is like good women- it doesn't always happen and when it does it doesn't always last. man is ...
at the track today, Father's Day, each paid admission was entitled to a wallet and each contained a little surprise. ...
not much chance, completely cut loose from purpose, he was a young man riding a bus through North Carolina on ...
O Mistress mine, where are you roaming? O, stay and hear; your true love’s coming, That can sing both high ...
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