After the Concert (Innokentii Fedorovich Annensky Poems)
The blackened skies have reached the garden walk;Yet my poor heart tonight cannot be not the restless.The lights that have ...
The blackened skies have reached the garden walk;Yet my poor heart tonight cannot be not the restless.The lights that have ...
'At every cost,' they said, 'it must be done.'They told us in the early afternoon.We sit and wait the coming ...
Nine grenadiers, with bayonets in their guns;Nine bakers' baskets, with hot cross buns;Nine brown elephants standing in a row;Nine new ...
But when the days were numbered, then befellThe parting of our Lord — which was to be —Whereby came wailing ...
OSMOTAR THE BRIDE-ADVISERNow the bride must be instructed,Who will teach the Maid of Beauty,Who instruct the Rainbow-daughter?Osmotar, the wisdom-maiden,Kalew's fair ...
ILMARINEN'S WOOING.ILMARINEN, hero-blacksmith,The eternal metal-worker,Hastens forward to the court-roomOf the hostess of Pohyola,Of the master of the Northland,Hastens through the ...
ILMARINEN'S WEDDING-FEAST.Louhi, hostess of the Northland,Ancient dame of Sariola,While at work within her dwelling,Heard the whips crack on the fenlands,Heard ...
Me photer's in the papers! 'Oly wars! A 'ero, I've been called in big, black type. I 'ad ...
"Just as day began to dawnGilgamesh addressed his friend, saying: ""Enkidu, your mother, the gazelle, and your father, ...
The pleasant recollections if the ones that mostly last,But there's sometimes other memories come a creepin' from the ...
An old western town lay asleep in the sunOf a long summer day that was then almost done.The shadows were ...
TWENTY years of the army, of drawing a sergeant's pay And helping the West Point shavetails, fresh from the training ...
Off across the wide arroyo sweeps the breezes of the fall,Where the haze of Injun summer sort o' lingers over ...
High on a slope in New Guinea The Grumman Hellcat lodges among bright vines as thick as arms. In 1943, ...
Meticulous was the word That came to mom and me Simultaneously to describe Dad and how he approached almost Everything ...
The turquoise pool rose up to meet us, its slide a silver afterthought down which we plunged, screaming, into a ...
A RETURN TO THE COVER OF THIS BOOK Dear Trout Fishing in America: I met your friend Fritz in Washington ...
1 FIRST, O songs, for a prelude, Lightly strike on the stretch'd tympanum, pride and joy in my city, How ...
Crops like hedgehogs, high-crown'd hats, Whispers like Jew MOSES ; Padded collars, thick cravats, And cheeks as red as roses. ...
'Twas Mulga Bill, from Eaglehawk, that caught the cycling craze; He turned away the good old horse that served him ...
So Abram rose, and clave the wood, and went, And took the fire with him, and a knife. And as ...
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