Love’s Strategems (Donald Justice Poems)
But these maneuverings to avoid The touching of hands, These shifts to keep the eyes employed On objects more or ...
But these maneuverings to avoid The touching of hands, These shifts to keep the eyes employed On objects more or ...
Up yonder in Buena Park There is a famous spot, In legend and in history Yclept the Waller Lot. There ...
WHAT various ways in which a thing is told Some truth abuse, while others fiction hold; In stories we invention ...
FLORENTINE we now design to show;-- A greater blockhead ne'er appeared below; It seems a prudent woman he had wed, ...
NEAR Rome, of yore, close to the Florence road, Was seen a humble innkeeper's abode; Small sums were charged; few ...
A CLOISTERED nun had a lover Dwelling in the neighb'ring town; Both racked their brains to discover How they best ...
WE'RE told, that once a cobbler, BLASE by name; A wife had got, whose charms so high in fame; But ...
IN ev'ry age, at Naples, we are told, Intrigue and gallantry reign uncontrolled; With beauteous objects in abundance blessed. No ...
Those who have touched it or been touched by it Or brushed by something that the vine has brushed, Or ...
Congratulations, you've succeeded, you've acknowledged 60% of you at least are the incredibly dense and mindless people needed to make ...
Oh that those lips had language! Life has pass'd With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips ...
Last, the youngest son was taken: Very rough and thick his hair was, Very round and red his face was, ...
From his shoulder Hiawatha Took the camera of rosewood, Made of sliding, folding rosewood; Neatly put it all together. In ...
From his shoulder Hiawatha Took the camera of rosewood, Made of sliding, folding rosewood; Neatly put it all together. In ...
The First Voice HE trilled a carol fresh and free, He laughed aloud for very glee: There came a breeze ...
I don't operate often. When I do, persons take note. Nurses look amazed. They pale. The patient is brought back ...
NO more wine? then we'll push back chairs and talk. A final glass for me, though: cool, i' faith! We ...
See they come, post haste from Thanet, Lovely couple, side by side; They've left behind them Richard Kennet With the ...
KILMARNOCK wabsters, fidge an' claw, An' pour your creeshie nations; An' ye wha leather rax an' draw, Of a' denominations; ...
I am like, They tell me, my dear father. Broader brows Howbeit, upon a slenderer undergrowth Of delicate ...
to Robert Hass and in memory of Elliot Gilbert Slow dulcimer, gavotte and bow, in autumn, Bashõ and his friends ...
Releas'd from the noise of the butcher and baker Who, my old friends be thanked, did seldom forsake her, And ...
Jack Honest was only eight years of age when his father died, And by the death of his father, Mrs ...
A heroic story I will unfold, Concerning Jenny Carrister, a heroine bold, Who lived in Australia, at a gold mine ...
'Twas on a Sunday morning, and in the year of 1888, The steamer "Saxmundham," laden with coal and coke for ...
Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay! With your numerous arches and pillars in so grand array And your central ...
Twas in the year of 1842 and on the 27th of May That six Companies of the 91st Regiment with ...
A sad tale of the sea, I will unfold, About Mrs Lingard, that Heroine bold; Who struggled hard in the ...
'Twas in the year of 1897, and on the night of Christmas day, That ten persons' lives were taken sway, ...
Yes, here I lie close to a stunted rose bush In a forgotten place near the fence Where the thickets ...
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