The Assassination (Donald Justice Poem)
It begins again, the nocturnal pulse. It courses through the cables laid for it. It mounts to the chandeliers and ...
It begins again, the nocturnal pulse. It courses through the cables laid for it. It mounts to the chandeliers and ...
NOT in the world of light alone, Where God has built his blazing throne, Nor yet alone in earth below, ...
I MARK the months in liveries dank and dry, The day-tides many-shaped and hued; I see the nightfall shades subtrude, ...
Breathe not, hid Heart: cease silently, And though thy birth-hour beckons thee, Sleep the long sleep: The Doomsters heap Travails ...
Because I was content with these poor fields, Low open meads, slender and sluggish streams, And found a home in ...
As I went down to Dymchurch Wall, I heard the South sing o'er the land I saw the yellow sunlight ...
The thought beneath so slight a film -- Is more distinctly seen -- As laces just reveal the surge -- ...
Whangaehu waters, hot-spilled from the cauldron of Crater Lake, swirling mud-green from the cup between Tahurangi and Pyramid Peak, sulphurous, ...
I like the old house tolerably well, Where I must dwell Like a familiar gnome; And yet I never shall ...
Lo! I lament. Fallen is the sixfold Star: Slain is Asar. O twinned with me in the womb of Night! ...
Out of the night forth flamed a star -mine own! Now seventy light-years nearer as I urge Constant my heart ...
Out of the night forth flamed a star -mine own! Now seventy light-years nearer as I urge Constant my heart ...
Lo! I lament. Fallen is the sixfold Star: Slain is Asar. O twinned with me in the womb of Night! ...
EXCERPT] ... O Liberty ! with profitless endeavour Have I pursued thee, many a weary hour ; But thou nor ...
"Lord, being dark," I said, "I cannot bear The further touch of earth, the scented air; Lord, being dark, forewilled ...
What is Africa to me: Copper sun or scarlet sea, Jungle star or jungle track, Strong bronzed men, or regal ...
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
ON these white cliffs, that calm above the flood Rear their o'er-shadowing heads, and at their feet Scarce hear the ...
On these white cliffs, that calm above the flood Uplift their shadowing heads, and, at their feet, Scarce hear the ...
This is the time of day when we in the Mens's ward Think "one more surge of the pain and ...
Everything has its limit, including sorrow. A windowpane stalls a stare. Nor does a grill abandon a leaf. One may ...
Long ago I wished to leave " The house where I was born; " Long ago I used to grieve, ...
How still, how happy! Those are words That once would scarce agree together; I loved the plashing of the surge ...
"O day! he cannot die When thou so fair art shining! O Sun, in such a glorious sky, So tranquilly ...
He lay within a warm, soft world Of motion. Colors bloomed and fled, Maroon and turquoise, saffron, red, Wave upon ...
I am a shell. From me you shall not hear The splendid tramplings of insistent drums, The orbed gold of ...
To exalt, enthrone, establish and defend, To welcome home mankind's mysterious friend Wine, true begetter of all arts that be; ...
I had a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars Did wander ...
LONG since, I lived beneath vast porticoes, By many ocean-sunsets tinged and fired, Where mighty pillars, in majestic rows, Seemed ...
Down on the shore, on the sunny shore! Where the salt smell cheers the land; Where the tide moves bright ...
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