Shelley’s Death (Alfred Austin Poems)
What! And it was so! Thou wert then Death—stricken from behind, O heart of hearts! and they were men, That ...
What! And it was so! Thou wert then Death—stricken from behind, O heart of hearts! and they were men, That ...
"DEAR marshes, by no hand of man Laboriously sown, My river clasps you in its arms ...
a prayerO Mary, fragile mother, hear me, hear me now although I do not know your words. The black rosary ...
He is love and the present because he has opened our house to winter's foam and to the sound of ...
Was it a dream that all one summer nightWe toiled obscurely through a mighty woodTeeming with desperate armies; toiled to ...
The cooper should know about tubs. But I learned about life as well, And you who loiter around these graves ...
Campsite set Late afternoon Late June Grab a friend Get the canoe Head up the brook The tributary Portage through ...
A prayer hidden and silent Stones submerged by winter's blanket Covered and cold beneath the grip of frost If they ...
Hover the imagined center, our tongues grew long to please it, licking the walls, a chamber built of scent, a ...
Three notes I allowed aloud to sum the August beachiness of herring gull railway pigeon otherwise birdless fishless conjoin - ...
MOORING POSTS 1 The mooring posts marked on the South Leeds map Of 1908 still line the Aire's side, huge, ...
A thousand visits to the supermarket A thousand acts of sexual intimacy Spread over forty years. Your essence was quite ...
a prayer O Mary, fragile mother, hear me, hear me now although I do not know your words. The black ...
Through darkness curves a spume of falling flares That flood the field with shallow, blanching light. The huddled sentry stares ...
When yellow leaves the sky they pipe it to the houses to go on making red and warm and floral ...
'Twas in the year of 1888, and on July the 14th day, That an alarming accident occurred in the River ...
Kind Christians, all pay attention to me, And Miss Mouat's sufferings I'll relate to ye; While on board the Columbine, ...
The cooper should know about tubs. But I learned about life as well, And you who loiter around these graves ...
Once more he sees his companions' faces Livid in the first faint light, Gray with cement dust, Nebulous in the ...
--The Carpathian Frontier, October, 1968 --for my brother Once, in a foreign country, I was suddenly ill. I was driving ...
wade through black jade. Of the crow-blue mussel-shells, one keeps adjusting the ash-heaps; opening and shutting itself like an injured ...
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