Roosters (Elizabeth Bishop Poem)
At four o'clock in the gun-metal blue dark we hear the first crow of the first cock just below the ...
At four o'clock in the gun-metal blue dark we hear the first crow of the first cock just below the ...
We sit together and talk, or smoke in silence. You say (but use no words) 'this night is passing As ...
The lamplit page is turned, the dream forgotten; The music changes tone, you wake, remember Deep worlds you lived before,-deep ...
The days, the nights, flow one by one above us, The hours go silently over our lifted faces, We are ...
The round red sun heaves darkly out of the sea. The walls and towers are warmed and gleam. Sounds go ...
He Fill your bowl with roses: the bowl, too, have of crystal. Sit at the western window. Take the sun ...
Up the airy mountain, Down the rushy glen, We daren't go a-hunting For fear of little men; Wee folk, good ...
O lesson well and wisely taught Stay with me to the last, That all my life may better be For ...
The moonlight fades from flower and rose And the stars dim one by one; The tale is told, the song ...
I said I will find what is lowly and put the roots of my identity down there: each day I'll ...
This is the lair of the landlady She is a raw voice loose in the rooms beneath me. the continuous ...
NOW Nature hangs her mantle green On every blooming tree, And spreads her sheets o' daisies white Out o'er the ...
HAD I a cave on some wild distant shore, Where the winds howl to the wave's dashing roar: There would ...
FROM those drear solitudes and frowsy cells, Where Infamy with sad Repentance dwells; Where turnkeys make the jealous portal fast, ...
SLEEP'ST thou, or wak'st thou, fairest creature? Rosy morn now lifts his eye, Numbering ilka bud which Nature Waters wi' ...
THE SUN had clos'd the winter day, The curless quat their roarin play, And hunger'd maukin taen her way, To ...
Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers, Ere the sorrow comes with years? They are leaning their young ...
You don't believe -- I won't attempt to make ye: You are asleep -- I won't attempt to wake ye. ...
Sleep! sleep! beauty bright, Dreaming o'er the joys of night; Sleep! sleep! in thy sleep Little sorrows sit and weep. ...
In futurity I prophesy see. That the earth from sleep. (Grave the sentence deep) Shall arise and seek For her ...
One song can spark a moment, One flower can wake the dream One tree can start a forest, One bird ...
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