The Deodand (Anthony Hecht Poems)
What are these women up to? They've gone and strung Drapes over the windows, cutting out light And the slightest ...
What are these women up to? They've gone and strung Drapes over the windows, cutting out light And the slightest ...
Ho! for the day in the whole year the brightest!Long may it live in the heart of the nation!Long may ...
Our souls are the deserts of sorrow, Our hearts are the ashes of hope, And madly from gladness we ...
'Mid wattle scents and sounds of Spring,The old man, dreaming in his chair,Is back where skylarks soar and singIn sunshine, ...
O, SAD and solemn holy day,O, bitterest of bitter hours!Behold He staggers on His wayBeneath the cross that saps His ...
It's more than just an easy word for casual good-bye;It's gayer than a greeting and it's sadder than a sigh;It ...
_Just a few songs of her, Not of the wrongs of her Many and bitter and long though they ...
Mercy to thee, O Lord, belongs,For as his work thou giv'st the man.From us, not thee, come all our wrongs;Mercy ...
I How fresh the Dartle's little waves that day! A steely silver, underlined with blue, And flashing where the round ...
Full of wrath was Hiawatha When he came into the village, Found the people in confusion, Heard of all the ...
Now Time's Andromeda on this rock rude, With not her either beauty's equal or Her injury's, looks off by both ...
ALL is over! fleet career, Dash of greyhound slipping thongs, Flight of falcon, bound of deer, Mad hoof-thunder in our ...
Seek the quiet center in prayer listening hearing God's voice speaking, speaking to us Act for justice, seek his wisdom ...
Growing up, I propose, is like wearing a dead man's clothes. Death has a way of levelling the ground. I ...
S. Patrick. You who are bent, and bald, and blind, With a heavy heart and a wandering mind, Have known ...
(In memoriam C. T. W. Sometime trooper of the Royal Horse Guards obiit H.M. prison, Reading, Berkshire July 7, 1896) ...
1 O TAKE my hand, Walt Whitman! Such gliding wonders! such sights and sounds! Such join'd unended links, each hook'd ...
1 SAUNTERING the pavement, or riding the country by-road-lo! such faces! Faces of friendship, precision, caution, suavity, ideality; The spiritual, ...
I was a queen, and I have lost my crown; A wife, and I have broken all my vows; A ...
'Twas up in a land long famed for gold, where women were far and rare, Tellus, the smith, had taken ...
Oh, I should like to ride the seas, A roaring buccaneer; A cutlass banging at my knees, A dirk behind ...
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