A Tree Telling of Orpheus (Denise Levertov Poem)
White dawn. Stillness.When the rippling began I took it for sea-wind, coming to our valley with rumors of salt, of ...
White dawn. Stillness.When the rippling began I took it for sea-wind, coming to our valley with rumors of salt, of ...
Down the street as I was drifting with the city's human tide, Came a ghost, and for a moment walked ...
Why is that wanton gossip Fame So dumb about this man's affairs? Why do we titter at his name Who ...
I sent a message to my dear -- A thousand leagues and more to Her -- The dumb sea-levels thrilled ...
Her scarf a la Bardot, In suede flats for the walk, She came with me one evening For air and ...
I rose at night and visited The Cave of the Unborn, And crowding shapes surrounded me For tidings of the ...
Uncle Ray! Uncle Ray! Uncle Ray's here! Excited voices, Greeting my arrival home. Shouts of my Nieces and nephews, Bearing ...
Cinna, the great Venusian told In songs that will not die How in Augustan days of old Your love did ...
I hear Thy voice, dear Lord; I hear it by the stormy sea When winter nights are black and wild, ...
Who should come up the road one day But the doctor-man in his two-wheel shay! And he whoaed his horse ...
Away down East where I was reared amongst my Yankee kith, There used to live a pretty girl whose name ...
All the trees are sleeping, all the winds are still, All the flocks of fleecy clouds have wandered past the ...
If I could but forget The fullness of those first sweet days, When you burst sun-like thro' the haze Of ...
Sweet Skepticism of the Heart -- That knows -- and does not know -- And tosses like a Fleet of ...
"Zipless sex" one cynic called this festival of fornication, this celebration of new-found sexual strength and urbane honesty, of sex ...
To the melody of "Sheng Sheng Man" I pine and peak And questless seek Groping and moping to linger and ...
All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his ...
Bhaskar Roy Barman Once in my childhood I watched mesmerized a magician magic everything away from before my eyes and ...
To be a great musician you must be a man of moods, You have to be, to understand sonatas and ...
Ah! why, because the dazzling sun Restored our Earth to joy, Have you departed, every one, And left a desert ...
They sleep within. . . . I cower to the earth, I waking, I only. High and cold thou dreamest, ...
Sir, since the last Elizabethan died, Or, rather, that more Paradisal muse, Blind with much light, passed to the light ...
From the candles and dumb shadows, And the house where love had died, I stole to the vast moonlight And ...
(France -- Ancient Regime.) I. Go away! Go away; I will not confess to you! His black biretta clings like ...
I. Said Abner, ``At last thou art come! Ere I tell, ere thou speak, ``Kiss my cheek, wish me well!'' ...
This is a spray the Bird clung to, Making it blossom with pleasure, Ere the high tree-top she sprung to, ...
I. ENOUGH ! we're tired, my heart and I. We sit beside the headstone thus, And wish that name were ...
When we met first and loved, I did not build Upon the event with marble. Could it mean To last, ...
The doctor fingers my bruise. "Magnificent," he says, "black at the edges and purple cored." Seated, he spies for clues, ...
Vous êtes sorti sain et sauf des basses calomnies, vous avey conquis les coeurs. Zola, J'accuse One was kicked in ...
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