A Vast Confusion (Lawrence Ferlinghetti Poem)
Long long I lay in the sands Sounds of trains in the surf in subways of the sea And an ...
Long long I lay in the sands Sounds of trains in the surf in subways of the sea And an ...
For all this, what is the mountain god like? An unending green of lands north and south: From ethereal beauty ...
Repeatedly, that sturdy stump in me bears up like stone, beneath some ritual I see: the blinding axe swings up, ...
In town to sell his fruit, he saw her- Françoise in her summer slacks- turning to him, coming back to ...
APENECK SWEENEY spreads his knees Letting his arms hang down to laugh, The zebra stripes along his jaw Swelling to ...
Of all our antic sights and pageantry Which English idiots run in crowds to see, The Polish Medal bears the ...
Now in the oak the sap of life is welling, Tho' to the bough the rusty leafage clings; Now on ...
Who ever loves, if he do not propose The right true end of love, he's one that goes To sea ...
Because I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me The Carriage held but just Ourselves And Immortality. ...
Revolving in their destin'd sphere, The hours begin another year As rapidly to fly; Ah! think, Maria, (e'er in grey ...
Where the rough Caigra rolls the surgy wave, Urging his thunders thro' the echoing cave; Where the sharp rocks, in ...
LO here a little volume, but great Book A nest of new-born sweets; Whose native fires disdaining To ly thus ...
The Lord receives his highest praise From humble minds and hearts sincere; While all the loud professor says Offends the ...
(Proverbs, viii. 22-31) "Ere God had built the mountains, Or raised the fruitful hills; Before he fill'd the fountains That ...
Hast thou a charm to stay the morning-star In his steep course? So long he seems to pause On thy ...
William, my teacher, my friend ! dear William and dear Dorothea ! Smooth out the folds of my letter, and ...
Friend of the Wise ! and Teacher of the Good ! Into my heart have I received that Lay More ...
All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his ...
A green and silent spot, amid the hills, A small and silent dell ! O'er stiller place No singing sky-lark ...
Late, late yestreen I saw the new Moon, With the old Moon in her arms ; And I fear, I ...
PART I 'Tis the middle of night by the castle clock And the owls have awakened the crowing cock; Tu-whit!- ...
STEER, hither steer your winged pines, All beaten mariners! Here lie Love's undiscover'd mines, A prey to passengers-- Perfumes far ...
Up the ash tree climbs the ivy, Up the ivy climbs the sun, With a twenty-thousand pattering, Has a valley ...
Fair was the evening and brightly the sun Was shining on desert and grove, Sweet were the breezes and balmy ...
The stone-built villages of England. A cathedral bottled in a pub window. Cows dispersed across fields. Monuments to kings. A ...
A closed window looks down on a dirty courtyard, and black people call across or scream or walk across defying ...
High waving heather 'neath stormy blasts bending, Midnight and moonlight and bright shining stars, Darkness and glory rejoicingly blending, Earth ...
That wind I used to hear it swelling With joy divinely deep You might have seen my hot tears welling ...
Ay! gloriously thou standest there, Beautiful, boundless firmament! That swelling wide o'er earth and air, And round the horizon bent, ...
Reubens, river of forgetfulness, garden of sloth, Pillow of wet flesh that one cannot love, But where life throngs and ...
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