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 ...
I If nature is life, nature is death: It is winter as it is spring: Confusion is variety, variety And ...
Nothing is given which is not taken. Little or nothing is taken which is not freely desired, freely, truly and ...
"little soul, little flirting, little perverse one where are you off to now? little wan one, firm one little exposed ...
Saint, revolutionist, God and sage know well, That there is a place Where that much-rung bell, The well-beloved body, And ...
(With much help from Robert Good, William Shakespeare, John Milton, and little Catherine Schwartz) Shall I compare her to a ...
"Poet and veteran of childhood, look! See in me the obscene, for you have love, For you have hatred, you, ...
"Trash, trash!" the king my uncle said, "The spirit's smoke and weak as smoke ascends. "Sit in the sun and ...
Someone is harshly coughing on the next floor, Sudden excitement catching the flesh of his throat: Who is the sick ...
(After Rilke) Spring has returned! Everything has returned! The earth, just like a schoolgirl, memorizes Poems, so many poems. ... ...
What curious dresses all men wear! The walker you met in a brown study, The President smug in rotogravure, The ...
The horns in the harbor booming, vaguely, Fog, forgotten, yesterday, conclusion, Nostalgic, noising dim sorrow, calling To sleep is it? ...
A poem moves forward, Like the passages and percussions of trains in progress A pattern of recurrence, a hammer of ...
Tiger Christ unsheathed his sword, Threw it down, became a lamb. Swift spat upon the species, but Took two women ...
I Christmas Poem for Nancy Noel, Noel We live and we die Between heaven and hell Between the earth and ...
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