Three Valentines to the Wide World (Mona Van Duyn Poems)
IThe child disturbs our view. Tow-head bent, shestands on one leg and folds up the other. She is listeningto the ...
IThe child disturbs our view. Tow-head bent, shestands on one leg and folds up the other. She is listeningto the ...
Now while so many turn with love and longing To wan lands lying in the grey North Sea,To thee we turn, ...
DEAR old road, wheel-worn and broken, Winding through the forest green,Barred with shadows and with sunshine, Misty vistas drawn between.Grim, scarred bluegums ...
With sadness I survey our present generation!Their future seems so empty, dark, and cold,Weighed down beneath a load of knowing ...
Why go to Saint-Juliot? What's Juliot to me?I've been but made fancyBy some necromancyThat much of my life claims the ...
THE silent trees above my headThe silent pathway at my feetShame me when here I dare to treadAccompanied by thoughts ...
The young moon comes earlyAnd slips away soon.Like a white dairy-maidRuns the young moon.The full moon rides slowlyFrom night until ...
Dear old road, wheel-worn and broken, Winding thro' the forest green, Barred with shadow and with sunshine, Misty ...
Heaven and the sea attend the dying day,And in their sadness overflow and blend—Faint gold, and windy blue, and green ...
THOUGHT.A swift, successive chain of things,That flash, kaleidoscope-like, now in, now out,Now straight, now eddying in wild rings,No order, neither ...
And all returns to Thee, alone eternal,And all Thee returning.Oh Death, in Thy vast shadow,Simple and bare we languish,Not happy, ...
Somewhere a pine is green, Just where who knoweth, And in a garth unseen A rose-tree bloweth. These are ordained ...
Change me, oh God, Into a tree in autumn And let my dying Be a blaze of glory! Drape me ...
Those who go down into silence..There is no silence in their going down,Although their grave-turf is not wet with tears,Although ...
I work all day, and get half-drunk at night. Waking at four to soundless dark, I stare. In time the ...
The earth is full of anger, The seas are dark with wrath, The Nations in their harness Go up against ...
IN vision I roamed the flashing Firmament, So fierce in blazon that the Night waxed wan, As though with an ...
And you, ye stars, Who slowly begin to marshal, As of old, in the fields of heaven, Your distant, melancholy ...
May-, 1786.I LANG hae thought, my youthfu' friend, A something to have sent you, Tho' it should serve nae ither ...
To Thushari Williams Dear Thushie, the six months you spent with us Will never be forgotten, the long days you ...
My lover died a century ago, Her dear heart stricken by my sland'rous breath, Wherefore the Gods forbade that I ...
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