Father And Son (Delmore Schwartz Poems)
Father: On these occasions, the feelings surprise, Spontaneous as rain, and they compel Explicitness, embarrassed eyes-- Son: Father, you're not ...
Father: On these occasions, the feelings surprise, Spontaneous as rain, and they compel Explicitness, embarrassed eyes-- Son: Father, you're not ...
THE MIND IS AN ANCIENT AND FAMOUS CAPITAL The mind is a city like London, Smoky and populous: it is ...
When I fall asleep, and even during sleep, I hear, quite distinctly, voices speaking Whole phrases, commonplace and trivial, Having ...
Jeremiah Dickson was a true-blue American, For he was a little boy who understood America, for he felt that he ...
Twenty-eight naked young women bathed by the shoreOr near the bank of a woodland lakeTwenty-eight girls and all of them ...
When I was a young man, I loved to write poems And I called a spade ...
Let me not, ever, to the marriage in CanaOf Galilee admit the slightest sentimentOf doubt about the astonishing and sustaining ...
Dogs are Shakespearean, children are strangers. Let Freud and Wordsworth discuss the child, Angels and Platonists shall judge the dog, ...
Faithful to your commandments, o consciousness, oHoly bird of words soaring ever whether to nothingness or ...
(Robert Frost, 1875-1963) Whose wood this is I think I know:He made it sacred long ago:He will expect me, far ...
Saint, revolutionist,God and sage know well,That there is a placeWhere that much-rung bell,The well-beloved body,And its sensitive faceMust be sacrificed.There ...
Poem Faithful to your commands, o consciousness, o Beating wings, I studiedthe roses and the muses of reality,the deceptions and ...
You, my photographer, you, most aware,Who climbed to the bridge when the iceberg struck,Climbed with your camera when the ship's ...
When from the watercolored window idly you lookEach is but and clear to see, not steep:So does the neat print ...
I looked toward the movie, the common dream,The he and she in close-ups, nearer than life, And I accepted such ...
By circumstances fedWhich divide attentionAmong the living and the dead,Under the blooms of the blossoming sun,The gaze which is a ...
"the cure of souls." Henry James The radiant soda of the seashore fashions Fun, foam and freedom. The sea laves ...
(after Spillane) Let us be aware of the true dark gods Acknowledgeing the cache of the crotch The primitive pure ...
Let me not, ever, to the marriage in Cana Of Galilee admit the slightest sentiment Of doubt about the astonishing ...
Socrates ghost must haunt me now, Notorious death has let him go, He comes to me with a clumsy bow, ...
When from the watercolored window idly you look Each is but and clear to see, not steep: So does the ...
(After Rilke) The city floats no longer like a bait To hook the nimble darting summer days. The glazed and ...
Tired and unhappy, you think of houses Soft-carpeted and warm in the December evening, While snow's white pieces fall past ...
Athlete, virtuoso, Training for happiness, Bend arm and knee, and seek The body's sharp distress, For pain is pleasure's cost, ...
"the withness of the body" --Whitehead The heavy bear who goes with me, A manifold honey to smear his face, ...
Calmly we walk through this April's day, Metropolitan poetry here and there, In the park sit pauper and rentier, The ...
This is the greatest thing in North America: Europe is the greatest thing in North America! High in the sky, ...
You, my photographer, you, most aware, Who climbed to the bridge when the iceberg struck, Climbed with your camera when ...
I am a poet of the Hudson River and the heights above it, the lights, the stars, and the bridges ...
Some who are uncertain compel me. They fear The Ace of Spades. They fear Loves offered suddenly, turning from the ...
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