The Next Poem (Dana Gioia Poems)
How much better it seems nowthan when it is finally done-the unforgettable first line,the cunning way the stanzas run.The rhymes ...
How much better it seems nowthan when it is finally done-the unforgettable first line,the cunning way the stanzas run.The rhymes ...
As by the instrument she took her place,The expectant people, breathing sigh nor word,Sat hushed, while o'er the waiting ivory ...
(Begin breezily):In Lady Lusher's drawing-room, where float the strains of ...
"Forget the snorting steam and piston stroke,Forget the spreading of the hideous town."—The Earthly ParadiseYes, William Morris, it were well ...
ISir Knight of the world's oldest order,Sir Knight of the Army of God,You have crossed the strange mystical border,The ground ...
In Nature's bright blossoms not always reposesThat strange subtle essence more rare than their bloom,Which lies in the hearts of ...
Wherever I wander, my spirit still dwells,In the silvery San Juan with its streamlet and dells;Whose mountainous summits, so rugged ...
I CHANCED upon a line of thought, a thin line And traced its sinuous course from start to end ; ...
The year outgrows the spring it thought so sweet,And clasps the summer with a new delight,Yet wearied, leaves her languors ...
Thou poet-painter, preacher of great truth,Far more suggestive thine than written tomeLo, we return with thee to that vast dome,Dim ...
Amobas at the startWere not complex;They tore themselves apartAnd started Sex.And Sex has ruled the earthFrom then till this,Producing woe ...
Seeing you have not come with me, nor spent This day's suggestive beauty as we ought, I have gone forth ...
As the night was falling slowly down on city, town and bush, From a slum in Jones's Alley sloped the ...
The eldest son bestrides him, And the pretty daughter rides him, And I meet him oft o' mornings on the ...
(i) introduction his home in ruins his parents gone frederick seeks to reclaim his throne to the golden mountain he ...
The First Voice HE trilled a carol fresh and free, He laughed aloud for very glee: There came a breeze ...
I see a woman any woman making up and change first she is thinking of something else (because when a ...
I leave the office, take the stairs, in time to mail a letter before 3 in the afternoon--the last dispatch. ...
Something strange is creeping across me. La Celestina has only to warble the first few bars Of "I Thought about ...
Seeing you have not come with me, nor spent This day's suggestive beauty as we ought, I have gone forth ...
'Twas in scientific circles That the great Professor Brown Had a world-wide reputation As a writer of renown. He had ...
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