The End Of The Library (Weldon Kees Poem)
When the coal Gave out, we began Burning the books, one by one; First the set Of Bulwer-Lytton And then ...
When the coal Gave out, we began Burning the books, one by one; First the set Of Bulwer-Lytton And then ...
(For Shaemas O Sheel) One winter night a Devil came and sat upon my bed, His eyes were full of ...
I THAT in heill was and gladness Am trublit now with great sickness And feblit with infirmitie:-- Timor Mortis conturbat ...
Some say that Guy of Warwick The man that killed the Cow, And brake the mighty Boar alive Beyond the ...
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
THIS last denial of my faith, Thou, solemn Priest, hast heard; And, though upon my bed of death, I call ...
George was lying in his trailer, flat on his back, watching a small portable T.V. His dinner dishes were undone, ...
I 'But where do you go?' said the lady, while both sat under the yew, And her eyes were alive ...
Once more the gate behind me falls; Once more before my face I see the moulder'd Abbey-walls, That stand within ...
So closed our tale, of which I give you all The random scheme as wildly as it rose: The words ...
Sir Walter Vivian all a summer's day Gave his broad lawns until the set of sun Up to the people: ...
A pair of blackbirds warring in the roses, one or two poppies losing their heads, the trampled lawn a battlefield ...
The opening scene. The yellow, coal-fed fog Uncurling over the tainted city river, A young girl rowing and her anxious ...
Upon the work of Walter Landor I am unfit to write with candor. If you can read it, well and ...
How wise I am to have instructed the butler to instruct the first footman to instruct the second footman to ...
Beautiful Ancient City of Perth, One of the fairest on the earth, With your stately mansions and scenery most fine, ...
Beautiful city of Edinburgh! Where the tourist can drown his sorrow By viewing your monuments and statues fine During the ...
Beautiful city of Glasgow, with your streets so neat and clean, Your stateley mansions, and beautiful Green! Likewise your beautiful ...
Oh, mighty city of New York, you are wonderful to behold-- Your buildings are magnificent-- the truth be it told-- ...
The white men played all sorts of jokes on me. They took big fish off my hook And put little ...
So Mary died last night! To-day The news has travelled here. And Robert died at Michaelmas, And Walter died last ...
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