J–K. Huysmans (Amy Lowell Poem)
A flickering glimmer through a window-pane, A dim red glare through mud bespattered glass, Cleaving a path between blown walls ...
A flickering glimmer through a window-pane, A dim red glare through mud bespattered glass, Cleaving a path between blown walls ...
After a Print by George Cruikshank It was a gusty night, With the wind booming, and swooping, Looping round corners, ...
A drifting, April, twilight sky, A wind which blew the puddles dry, And slapped the river into waves That ran ...
Cross-ribboned shoes; a muslin gown, High-waisted, girdled with bright blue; A straw poke bonnet which hid the frown She pluckered ...
Every old man I see Reminds me of my father When he had fallen in love with death One time ...
Some things I do not profess to understand, perhaps not wanting to, including whatever it was they did with you ...
Fair is our lot -- O goodly is our heritage! (Humble ye, my people, and be fearful in your mirth!) ...
There's no sense in going further -- it's the edge of cultivation," So they said, and I believed it -- ...
There are who lord it o'er their fellow-men With most prevailing tinsel: who unpen Their baaing vanities, to browse away ...
I When I considered it too closely, when I wore it like an element and smelt it like water, Life ...
My father worked with a horse-plough, His shoulders globed like a full sail strung Between the shafts and the furrow. ...
For Carl Solomon I I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves ...
If we slow our reading and treasure all the words learning from a righteous man who stumbled before God Taking ...
All of them, each one all who have gone before us in some sense, all of them living by their ...
Remembering our past grounded in the present the collective history meant to guide our way Standing while we may but ...
Oh how to tell the tale to spin the yarn, to pull you in Bring you along, down memory road ...
I met a lady from the South who said (You won't believe she said it, but she said it): "None ...
A man stumbled on some rat droppings. Hey, who put those there? That's dangerous, he said. His wife said, those ...
You were never told, Mother, how old Illyawas drunk That last holiday, for five days and nights He stumbled through ...
When I heard he had entered the harbor, and circled the wharf for days, I expected the worst: shallow water, ...
They deliver the edicts of God without delay And are exempt from apprehension from detention And with their God-given Petasus, ...
THE PROLOGUE. WHEN folk had laughed all at this nice case Of Absolon and Hendy Nicholas, Diverse folk diversely they ...
Black trees against an orange sky, Trees that the wind shook terribly, Like a harsh spume along the road, Quavering ...
"But, sir," I said, "they tell me the man is like to die!" The Canon shook his head indulgently. "Young ...
The last pose flickered, failed. The screen's dead white Glared in a sudden flooding of harsh light Stabbing the eyes; ...
I The bitterness. the misery, the wretchedness of childhood Put me out of love with God. I can't believe in ...
Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea-- call ...
IN this strange land, this uncouth clime, A land unknown to prose or rhyme; Where words ne'er cross't the Muse's ...
The ArgumentA certain man having landed on an island in the Greek sea, found there a beautifuldamsel, whom he would ...
All night the dreadless Angel, unpursued, Through Heaven's wide champain held his way; till Morn, Waked by the circling Hours, ...
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