Lovesong (Ted Hughes Poem)
He loved her and she loved him His kisses sucked out her whole past and future or tried to He ...
He loved her and she loved him His kisses sucked out her whole past and future or tried to He ...
A prince stood on the balcony of his palace addressing a great multitude summoned for the occasion and said, "Let ...
And now it was evening. And Almitra the seeress said, "Blessed be this day and this place and your spirit ...
His story so familiar in trying to live in piety when we fall into the trap of judging ourselves Forgetting ...
In the early morning dewlight the stealth of her design the intricate lattice revealed. Ribbons concentric ovals rays, lines radiating ...
Funny how a spider waits lingers motionless for prey to vibrate the strands of the wed, to touch the right ...
I really did feel bad afterward; but at that instant, I was confused sorry, not knowing what to say He ...
We live in a time a world that Paul warned us about violence and righteousness claimed in your name the ...
Like a Dog with a bottle, fast ti'd to his tail, Like Vermin in a trap, or a Thief in ...
THE worst of ills, with jealousy compared, Are trifling torments ev'ry where declared. IMAGINE, to yourself a silly fool, To ...
WHEN Venus and Hypocrisy combine, Oft pranks are played that show a deep design; Men are but men, and friars ...
SOME time ago from Rome, in smart array, A younger brother homeward bent his way, Not much improved, as frequently ...
He is said to have been the last Red man In Action. And the Miller is said to have laughed-- ...
I stayed the night for shelter at a farm Behind the mountains, with a mother and son, Two old-believers. They ...
A woman prepared a mouse for her husband's dinner, roasting it with a blueberry in its mouth. At table he ...
All human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey: This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, ...
A Rat surrendered here A brief career of Cheer And Fraud and Fear. Of Ignominy's due Let all addicted to ...
The strident sounds of silence echo in a darkened room, a beggar's tomb of emptied space and barrenness, a shameful ...
An ingenuity too astonishing to be quite fortuitous is this bog full of sundews, sphagnum- lined and shaped like a ...
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
Most explicit-- the sense of trap as a narrowing cone one's got stuck into and any movement forward simply wedges ...
In fear of the rich mouth I kissed the thin,-- Even that was a trap To snare me in. Even ...
(PETER RONSARD _loquitur_.) ``Heigho!'' yawned one day King Francis, ``Distance all value enhances! ``When a man's busy, why, leisure ``Strikes ...
I. My first thought was, he lied in every word, That hoary cripple, with malicious eye Askance to watch the ...
A Child's Story Hamelin Town's in Brunswick, By famous Hanover city; The river Weser, deep and wide, Washes its wall ...
In the burned house I am eating breakfast. You understand: there is no house, there is no breakfast, yet here ...
WHEN Princes and Prelates, And hot-headed zealots, A' Europe had set in a low, a low, The poor man lies ...
In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy. Drive your cart and your plow over the bones of ...
The Argument. Rintrah roars & shakes his fires in the burdend air; Hungry clouds swag on the deep Once meek, ...
The vision of Christ that thou dost see Is my vision's greatest enemy. Thine has a great hook nose like ...
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