The Persian Version (Robert Graves Poem)
Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon. As for the Greek theatrical tradition Which represents ...
Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon. As for the Greek theatrical tradition Which represents ...
In the warming weather the snow melting somewhat not merely powder wrapping around the rocks The white in the river ...
The skin of the lake sliced not quite silently the fiberglass keel cutting the waves yet almost still after midnight ...
Eight silent canoes Pushed off onto the still waters At 2am on a July night. The full moon and stars ...
ONCE on the kind of day called "weather breeder," When the heat slowly hazes and the sun By its own ...
Once when the snow of the year was beginning to fall, We stopped by a mountain pasture to say 'Whose ...
We both have our hands to give Take mine I shall lead you afar I have lived several times my ...
The mountain and the squirrel Had a quarrel, And the former called the latter, "little prig": Bun replied, You are ...
O quam te memorem virgo... STAND on the highest pavement of the stair- Lean on a garden urn- Weave, weave ...
(The Dry Salvages-presumably les trois sauvages-is a small group of rocks, with a beacon, off the N.E. coast of Cape ...
I had sex with a famous poet last night and when I rolled over and found myself beside him I ...
Like an advent'rous seafarer am I, Who hath some long and dang'rous voyage been, And, call'd to tell of his ...
The heavenly hills of Holland,-- How wondrously they rise Above the smooth green pastures Into the azure skies! With blue ...
Before you thought of Spring Except as a Surmise You see -- God bless his suddenness -- A Fellow in ...
It rained throughout the night, a truly welcome sound that eases sleep although we barely slept - we were distressed ...
THROUGH halls of vanished pleasure, And hold of vanished power, And crypt of faith forgotten, A came to Ludlow tower. ...
The sea took a sailor to its depths.-- His mother, unsuspecting, goes and lights a tall candle before the Virgin ...
To the melody of "Sheng Sheng Man" I pine and peak And questless seek Groping and moping to linger and ...
Oh that those lips had language! Life has pass'd With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips ...
Budger of history Brake of time You Bomb Toy of universe Grandest of all snatched sky I cannot hate you ...
The South wind said to the palms: My lovers sing me psalms; But are they as warm as those That ...
The South wind said to the palms: My lovers sing me psalms; But are they as warm as those That ...
Verse, a Breeze 'mid blossoms straying, Where HOPE clung feeding, like a bee-- Both were mine ! Life went a-maying ...
The landscape sleeps in mist from morn till noon; And, if the sun looks through, 'tis with a face Beamless ...
Sence fair Jessica hez left us Seems ez ef she hed bereft us, When she went, o' half o' livin'; ...
It had been four days of no weather as if nature had conceded its genius to the indoors. They'd closed ...
WITNESS FOR TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA PEACE In San Francisco around Easter time last year, they had a trout fishing ...
What is he buzzing in my ears? "Now that I come to die, Do I view the world as a ...
GUID speed and furder to you, Johnie, Guid health, hale han's, an' weather bonie; Now, when ye're nickin down fu' ...
FY, let us a' to Kirkcudbright, For there will be bickerin' there; For Murray's light horse are to muster, And ...
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