Everything That Acts Is Actual (Denise Levertov Poem)
From the tawny light from the rainy nights from the imagination finding itself and more than itself alone and more ...
From the tawny light from the rainy nights from the imagination finding itself and more than itself alone and more ...
How beautiful is the rain! After the dust and heat, In the broad and fiery street, In the narrow lane, ...
O Sovereign power of love! O grief! O balm! All records, saving thine, come cool, and calm, And shadowy, through ...
December 1899 I She sits in the tawny vapour That the Thames-side lanes have uprolled, Behind whose webby fold-on-fold Like ...
I saw my world again through your eyes As I would see it again through your children's eyes. Through your ...
Children, if you dare to think Of the greatness, rareness, muchness Fewness of this precious only Endless world in which ...
The wood of the barn the creosote bleeding brown shoe polish and maple syrup colors of the boards weathered and ...
Life is simple. In my canoe. Strokes in the water propel me forward. I chart my course around the cove. ...
A slower pace On the Banks Palmettos sway Translucent green Or tawny papyrus brown Mesmerize A northerner Away from the ...
Weathered and worn But oh so proudly The old barn preened in the summer Mid-day sun He had seen her ...
The green grass is growing, The morning wind is in it, 'Tis a tune worth the knowing, Though it change ...
THE boat is chafing at our long delay, And we must leave too soon The spicy sea-pinks and the inborne ...
Civilization -- spurns -- the Leopard! Was the Leopard -- bold? Deserts -- never rebuked her Satin -- Ethiop -- ...
In Ebon Box, when years have flown To reverently peer, Wiping away the velvet dust Summers have sprinkled there! To ...
Hear me, Lord of the Stars! For thee I have worshipped ever With stains and sorrows and scars, With joyful, ...
Hear me, Lord of the Stars! For thee I have worshipped ever With stains and sorrows and scars, With joyful, ...
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
Those moments, tasted once and never done, Of long surf breaking in the mid-day sun. A far-off blow-hole booming like ...
A Child's Story Hamelin Town's in Brunswick, By famous Hanover city; The river Weser, deep and wide, Washes its wall ...
I The girl in the room beneath Before going to bed Strums on a mandolin The three simple tunes she ...
So many stones have been thrown at me, That I'm not frightened of them anymore, And the pit has become ...
Now on the hill The fitful wind is so still That never a wimpling mist uplifts, Nor a trembling leaf ...
I lash and writhe against my prison bars, And watch with sullen eyes the gaping crowd . . Give me ...
Over the fields we go, through the sweets of the purple clover, That letters a message for us as for ...
Only a long, low-lying lane That follows to the misty sea, Across a bare and russet plain Where wild winds ...
Within this sober Frame expect Work of no Forrain Architect; That unto Caves the Quarries drew, And Forrests did to ...
O'RE the smooth enameld green Where no print of step hath been, Follow me as I sing, And touch the ...
Descend from Heaven, Urania, by that name If rightly thou art called, whose voice divine Following, above the Olympian hill ...
A Masque Presented At Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before The Earl Of Bridgewater, Then President Of Wales. The Persons The ATTENDANT ...
Her tawny eyes are onyx of thoughtlessness, Hardened they are like gems in ancient modesty; Yea, and her mouth's prudent ...
© 2020 Inspirational Stories