The Ghetto (Lola Ridge Poems)
ICool, inaccessible airIs floating in velvety blackness shot with steel-blue lights,But no breath stirs the heatLeaning its ponderous bulk upon ...
ICool, inaccessible airIs floating in velvety blackness shot with steel-blue lights,But no breath stirs the heatLeaning its ponderous bulk upon ...
Dear M---- By way of saving time,I'll do this letter up in rhyme,Whose slim stream through four pages flowsEre one is ...
TO E. W.I KNOW not, Time and Space so intervene,Whether, still waiting with a trust serene,Thou bearest up thy fourscore ...
TO J F HNine years have slipt like hour-glass sandFrom life's still-emptying globe away,Since last, dear friend, I clasped your ...
Into the rock the road is cut full deep, At its low ledges village children play,From its high rifts fountains of ...
Around my feet the clouds are drawnIn the cold mystery of the dawn;No breezes cheer, no guests intrudeMy mossy, mist-clad ...
AS in those lands of mighty mountain heights,The streams, by sudden tempests overcharged,Sweep down the slopes, hearing swift ruin with ...
THE BROWN EYES came from Asia, where all mystery is true,Ere the masters of Soul Secrets dreamed of hazel, grey, ...
Dear city, round whose marshy rim the CharlesPasses his steel-blue sickle in slow glee,And, circling ever, slips at last through ...
Beautiful lily, dwelling by still rivers, Or solitary mere,Or where the sluggish meadow-brook delivers Its waters to the weir!Thou laughest at the ...
ACT III. A cell in the Wartburg Monastery. Enter PRIOR PEPPERCORN with the casket.PRIOR.So! Glittering shell where doubtless shines concealedAn ...
I'll tell you a story; but pass the "jack",And let us make merry to-night, my men.Aye, those were the days ...
1553-4 Two ships upon the steel-blue Arctic seas When day was long and night itself was day, Forged heavily before ...
No harsh complaint nor rude unmannered wo,Shall jar discordant in the dulcet flowOf music, raining through the chestnut wingsOf the ...
Out of the focal and foremost fire,Out of the hospital walls as dire,Smitten of grapeshot and gangrene,(Eighteenth battle and he ...
Out of the focal and foremost fire,Out of the hospital walls as dire,Smitten of grape-shot and gangrene,(Eighteenth battle, and he ...
No more the scarlet maples flash and burnTheir beacon-fires from hilltop and from plain; The meadow-grasses and the woodland fernIn ...
I've known ere now an interfering branch Of alder catch my lifted ax behind me. But that was in the ...
Dagonet, the fool, whom Gawain in his mood Had made mock-knight of Arthur's Table Round, At Camelot, high above the ...
Dagonet, the fool, whom Gawain in his mood Had made mock-knight of Arthur's Table Round, At Camelot, high above the ...
Italian Campagna 1309, the open road Bah! I have sung women in three cities, But it is all the same; ...
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