The Book of Hours of Sister Clotilde (Amy Lowell Poem)
The Bell in the convent tower swung. High overhead the great sun hung, A navel for the curving sky. The ...
The Bell in the convent tower swung. High overhead the great sun hung, A navel for the curving sky. The ...
Ere Mor the Peacock flutters, ere the Monkey People cry, Ere Chil the Kite swoops down a furlong sheer, Through ...
This ballad appears to refer to one of the exploits of the notorious Paul Jones, the American pirate. It is ...
(a) they seek to celebrate the word not to bring their knives out on a poem dissecting it to find ...
And one of the elders of the city said, "Speak to us of Good and Evil." And he answered: Of ...
Wow, I found a thesis sentence In my title above. A clear and concise position I can support Here, there, ...
SHE stood against the kitchen sink, and looked Over the sink out through a dusty window At weeds the water ...
I was a 20 year old unemployed receptionist with dyed orange dreadlocks sprouting out of my skull. I needed a ...
Now, joy is born of parents poor, And pleasure of our richer kind; Though pleasure's free, she cannot sing As ...
Once, and but once found in thy company, All thy supposed escapes are laid on me; And as a thief ...
So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss, Which sucks two souls, and vapors both away, Turn thou ghost that ...
Mark but this flea, and mark in this, How little that which thou deny'st me is; It sucked me first, ...
Black granite stretches its harsh, tapering wings up to pedestrian-level grass but sucks me down, here, at the intersection of ...
Doors were left open in heaven again: drafts wheeze, clouds wrap their ripped pages around roofs and trees. Like wet ...
Mel Gibson's Hamlet stinks -- doll Mel. Wind up Mel and Mel's eyes glaze into porcelain, blue gulfs of earnestness, ...
Stranger, if thou hast learned a truth which needs No school of long experience, that the world Is full of ...
"As certain also of your own poets have said"-- (Acts 17.28) Cleon the poet (from the sprinkled isles, Lily on ...
the phone rang at 1:30 a.m. and it was a man from Denver: "Chinaski, you got a following in Denver..." ...
LONE on the bleaky hills the straying flocks Shun the fierce storms among the sheltering rocks; Down from the rivulets, ...
I. I stand on the mark beside the shore Of the first white pilgrim's bended knee, Where exile turned to ...
Girls buck the wind in the grooves toward work in fuzzy coats promised to be warm as fur. The shop ...
Compelled by calamity's magnet They loiter and stare as if the house Burnt-out were theirs, or as if they thought ...
Color floods to the spot, dull purple. The rest of the body is all washed-out, The color of pearl. In ...
My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky; Contrariwise, my blood runs cold When little boys ...
Within this sober Frame expect Work of no Forrain Architect; That unto Caves the Quarries drew, And Forrests did to ...
After two sittings, now our Lady State To end her picture does the third time wait. But ere thou fall'st ...
I am fourteen and my skin has betrayed me the boy I cannot live without still sucks his tumb in ...
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