Twenty-Pound Stone (Nick Flynn Poem)
It nests in the hollow of my pelvis, I carry it with both hands, as if offering my stomach, as ...
It nests in the hollow of my pelvis, I carry it with both hands, as if offering my stomach, as ...
COME with rain. O loud Southwester! Bring the singer, bring the nester; Give the buried flower a dream; make the ...
I cannot spare water or wine, Tobacco-leaf, or poppy, or rose; From the earth-poles to the Line, All between that ...
WHEN Mr. Apollinax visited the United States His laughter tinkled among the teacups. I thought of Fragilion, that shy figure ...
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot "Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et ...
I LEGEND Long ago Apollo called to Aristæus, youngest of the shepherds, Saying, "I will make you keeper of my ...
I PRELUDE Daughter of Psyche, pledge of that last night When, pierced with pain and bitter-sweet delight, She knew her ...
I Thou who hast made thy dwelling fair With flowers beneath, above with starry lights, And set thine altars everywhere,-- ...
A lilt and a swing, And a ditty to sing, Or ever the night grow old; The wine is within, ...
STEP me now a bridal measure, Work give way to love and leisure, Hearts be free and hearts be gay ...
G'way an' quit dat noise, Miss Lucy-- Put dat music book away; What's de use to keep on tryin'? Ef ...
I could bring You Jewels -- had I a mind to -- But You have enough -- of those -- ...
A Saucer holds a Cup In sordid human Life But in a Squirrel's estimate A Saucer hold a Loaf. A ...
There is a morn by men unseen -- Whose maids upon remoter green Keep their Seraphic May -- And all ...
I taste a liquor never brewed -- From Tankards scooped in Pearl -- Not all the Vats upon the Rhine ...
For every tiny town or place God made the stars especially; Babies look up with owlish face And see them ...
The wind blew out from Bergen, from the dawning to the day There was a wreck of trees, a fall ...
Here lies, whom hound did ne'er pursue, Nor swiftewd greyhound follow, Whose foot ne'er tainted morning dew, Nor ear heard ...
Velvet soft the night-star glowed Over the untrodden road, Through the giant glades of yew ...
Hear me, Lord of the Stars! For thee I have worshipped ever With stains and sorrows and scars, With joyful, ...
"Aug." 10, 1911. Full moon to-night; and six and twenty years Since my full moon first broke from angel spheres! ...
Velvet soft the night-star glowed Over the untrodden road, Through the giant glades of yew ...
Hear me, Lord of the Stars! For thee I have worshipped ever With stains and sorrows and scars, With joyful, ...
"Aug." 10, 1911. Full moon to-night; and six and twenty years Since my full moon first broke from angel spheres! ...
THE PROLOGUE. When that the Knight had thus his tale told In all the rout was neither young nor old, ...
"MY First - but don't suppose," he said, "I'm setting you a riddle - Is - if your Victim be ...
Summer pleasures they are gone like to visions every one And the cloudy days of autumn and of winter cometh ...
Miss J.Hunter Dunn, Miss J.Hunter Dunn, Furnish'd and burnish'd by Aldershot sun, What strenuous singles we played after tea, We ...
As there I left the road in May, And took my way along a ground, I found a glade with ...
Behold, my child, this touching scene, The golfer on the golfing-green; Pray mark his legs' uncanny swing, The golf-walk is ...
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