The Believer’s Espousals : Chapter IV. (Ralph Erskine Poems)
A Caution to all against a Legal Spirit; especially to those that have a Profession without Power, and Learning without ...
A Caution to all against a Legal Spirit; especially to those that have a Profession without Power, and Learning without ...
To-day the plant by Williams setIts summer bloom discloses;The wilding sweethrier of his prayersIs crowned with cultured roses.Once more the ...
Fond man, that looks on earth for happiness,And here long seeks what here is never found!For all our good we ...
I saw her first when she was old, Her form devoid of grace;Her locks that once were yellow gold Were white, and ...
AN APOSTROPHE TO THE MOON.O, silvery moon, fair mistress of the night,Thou mellow, ever vaccilating orb,How many eons of unmeasured ...
Lo, I listened to the bleating of the sheep -- Squatters' sheep --And I sat ...
Joseph Jones and Peter Dawking Strove in an election fight; And you'd think, to hear them talking, ...
'Twas a Venerable Person, whom I met one Sunday morning,All appareled as a prophet of a melancholy sect;And in a ...
ITurned from the 'eau-fortePar Jaquemart'To the strait headOf Messalina:'His true PenelopeWas Flaubert,'And his toolThe engraver's.Firmness,Not the full smile,His art, but ...
When Ugli, son of Wampus, of a pre-historic date,Built himself a country villa out of mud and sticks and slate;Tribal ...
Now, my gift of crude invective is astonishingly high, And I've quite a flair for fierce vituperation,But I have to ...
I often pause to contemplateThe sadly barren mental stateOf persons whom it is my fate To meet on Monday morning.They ...
Boswell by my bed, Tolstoy on my table; Thought the world has bled For four and a half years, And ...
No more willful silences.No more verbal contact,he who loved to listen to so manywill never again hear his own voice ...
TRUTH is enough for prose: Calmly it goes To tell just what it knows.For verse, skill will suffice— Delicate, nice ...
Not a punishment, not in so many words that wasn't what Gabriel had in mind, not in this case, unbelief ...
Driveby friendships in the inbetween times the gaps, spaces between classes, lunch, studying caught in line, in the hall, bookstore, ...
TO the assembled folk At great St. Kavin's spoke Young Brother Amiel on Christmas Eve; I give you joy, my ...
THEY were calling certain styles of whiskers by the name of "lilacs." And another manner of beard assumed in their ...
'Tis hard to say, if greater Want of Skill Appear in Writing or in Judging ill, But, of the two, ...
So spake the Son of God; and Satan stood A while as mute, confounded what to say, What to reply, ...
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