Elegy (Carolyn Forche Poem)
The page opens to snow on a field: boot-holed month, black hour the bottle in your coat half voda half ...
The page opens to snow on a field: boot-holed month, black hour the bottle in your coat half voda half ...
How gayly is at first begun Our Life's uncertain Race! Whilst yet that sprightly Morning Sun, With which we just ...
URANIA, whom the Town admires, Whose Wit and Beauty share our Praise; This fair URANIA who inspires A thousand Joys ...
A governor it was proclaimed this time, When all who would come seeking in New Hampshire Ancestral memories might come ...
Others taught me with having knelt at well-curbs Always wrong to the light, so never seeing Deeper down in the ...
OH, give us pleasure in the flowers today; And give us not to think so far away As the uncertain ...
I Midwinter spring is its own season Sempiternal though sodden towards sundown, Suspended in time, between pole and tropic. When ...
Calling to mind, since first my love begun, Th'uncertain times oft varying in their course, How things still unexpectedly have ...
To Despair I ever love where never hope appears, Yet hope draws on my never-hoping care, And my life's hope ...
It was supposed to be Arts & Crafts for a week, but when she came home with the "Jesus Saves" ...
June 22, 1611 THE SHALLOP ON HUDSON BAY One sail in sight upon the lonely sea And only one, God ...
Where, like a pillow on a bed A pregnant bank swell'd up to rest The violet's reclining head, Sat we ...
The Love a Life can show Below Is but a filament, I know, Of that diviner thing That faints upon ...
Of Paradise' existence All we know Is the uncertain certainty -- But its vicinity infer, By its Bisecting Messenger -- ...
My first well Day -- since many ill -- I asked to go abroad, And take the Sunshine in my ...
He parts Himself -- like Leaves -- And then -- He closes up -- Then stands upon the Bonnet Of ...
Uncertain lease -- develops lustre On Time Uncertain Grasp, appreciation Of Sum -- The shorter Fate -- is oftener the ...
We grow accustomed to the Dark -- When light is put away -- As when the Neighbor holds the Lamp ...
If you were coming in the Fall, I'd brush the Summer by With half a smile, and half a spurn, ...
I heard a Fly buzz -- when I died -- The Stillness in the Room Was like the Stillness in ...
They talked to me again today, they spoke in gentle tones and said the things I ought to hear then ...
I was schooled well before he died, able at least to feel what others felt when their fathers were deceased. ...
Our Indonesian friends again exhibit strains of gross hypocrisy, it's a virus that abounds in the islands of a thousand ...
Nothing's certain. Crossing, on this longest day, the low-tide-uncovered isthmus, scrambling up the scree-slope of what at high tide will ...
Scene--A spacious drawing-room, with music-room adjoining. Katharine. What are the words ? Eliza. Ask our friend, the Improvisatore ; here ...
Part I It is an ancient Mariner, And he stoppeth one of three. 'By thy long grey beard and glittering ...
The only thing I miss about Los Angeles is the Hollywood Freeway at midnight, windows down and radio blaring bearing ...
'The mist is resting on the hill; The smoke is hanging in the air; The very clouds are standing still: ...
A prisoner in a dungeon deep Sat musing silently; His head was rested on his hand, His elbow on his ...
I've quenched my lamp, I struck it in that start Which every limb convulsed, I heard it fall The crash ...
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