The Frog Pool (James Devaney Poems)
Week after week it shrank and shrankas the fierce drought fiend drank and drank,till on the bone-dry bed revealedthe mud ...
Week after week it shrank and shrankas the fierce drought fiend drank and drank,till on the bone-dry bed revealedthe mud ...
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On the riverbankIn deep grassUnder the large shade of the willowSleeps a white horse.The forefathers' silver scythes have rung out.The ...
A thunderstorm burst over the earth,So a devil rose from a heap of white bones.The deluded monk was not beyond ...
In which calm home of happy life and loveLigged our Lord Buddha, knowing not of woe,Nor want, nor pain, nor ...
In the dungeon crypts idly did I stray,Reckless of the lives wasting there away;"Draw the ponderous bars; open, Warder stern!"He ...
Of all the Knights in AppledoreThe wisest was Sir Thomas Tom.He multiplied as far as four,And knew what nine was ...
Come from the window, Mary, He has gone,The night is here, and I would tell my taleOf wondrous sights I ...
1When in front of you hangs the day with its Smallest detail-fine or crude- The intensely hot cracking squirrel-sounds Do ...
Here a riddle has drawn a strange nailmark. To sleep now!I'll reread, understand with the light of the sun,But until ...
Something of heavens ever burns in it,I like to watch its wondrous facets' growth.It speaks with me in fate's non-seldom ...
In the sky there is nobody asleep. Nobody, nobody. Nobody is asleep. The creatures of the moon sniff and prowl ...
Seeping into our consciousness the images, the smells the lessons of the cherry blossoms the truths we know so well ...
Not softly, lazily tumbling, a ballet to the earth The leaves crashing hurling themselves to the ground The hot Indian ...
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Still let my tyrants know, I am not doomed to wear Year after year in gloom and desolate despair; A ...
a symphony orchestra. there is a thunderstorm, they are playing a Wagner overture and the people leave their seats under ...
My horse had been lamed in the foot In the rocks at the back of the run, So I camped ...
Unspeakable. The word that fills up the poem, that the head tries to excise. At 6 a.m., the wet lion. ...
(Being a Chant of the American Soap-Box and the Russian Revolution.) O market square, O slattern place, Is glory in ...
There dwelt a widow learned and devout, Behind our hamlet on the eastern hill. Three sons she had, who went ...
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