King’s Ransom (Elinor Wylie Poems)
About the Emperor's thumb revolving,Mouthed by Manchu's enamelled dragon;Upon the damasked barge, dissolvingWithin the deep Egyptian flagon;Downcast before the swine ...
About the Emperor's thumb revolving,Mouthed by Manchu's enamelled dragon;Upon the damasked barge, dissolvingWithin the deep Egyptian flagon;Downcast before the swine ...
SONNET XFrom One PersonWhen I perceive the sable of your hairSilvered, and deep within those caverns areYour eyesockets, a double-imaged ...
Upon your heart, which is the heart of allMy late discovered earth and early sky,Give me the dearest privilege to ...
I cannot give you the Metropolitan Tower;I cannot give you heaven;Nor the nine Visigoth crowns in the Cluny Museum;Nor happiness, ...
These to me are beautiful people;Thick hair sliding in a rippleA tall throat, round as a column;A mournful mouth, small ...
Half-past-four and the first bird waking,Falling on my heart like a thin green leaf.If you are alive, your heart is ...
Man, the egregious egoist(In mystery the twig is bent)Imagines, by some mental twist,That he alone is sentientOf the intolerable loadThat ...
When foxes eat the last gold grape, And the last white antelope is killed, I shall stop fighting and escape ...
I shall die hidden in a hut In the middle of an alder wood, With the back door blind and ...
Upbroke the sun In red-gold foam; Thus spoke the gun At the Soldier's Home: "Whenever I hear Blue thunder speak ...
For this you've striven Daring, to fail: Your sky is riven Like a tearing veil. For this, you've wasted Wings ...
Let us quarrel for these reasons: You detest the salt which seasons My speech . . . and all my ...
The Hielan' lassies are a' for spinnin', The Lowlan' lassies for prinkin' and pinnin'; My daddie w'u'd chide me, an' ...
A white well In a black cave; A bright shell In a dark wave. A white rose Black brambles hood; ...
This is the bricklayer; hear the thud Of his heavy load dumped down on stone. His lustrous bricks are brighter ...
My love came up from Barnegat, The sea was in his eyes; He trod as softly as a cat And ...
Ah, love, within the shadow of the wood The laurels are cut down; some other brows May bear the classic ...
The old moon is tarnished With smoke of the flood, The dead leaves are varnished With colour like blood. A ...
Within my house of patterned horn I sleep in such a bed As men may keep before they're born And ...
Stripping an almond tree in flower The wise apothecary's skill A single drop of lethal power From perfect sweetness can ...
The icicles wreathing On trees in festoon Swing, swayed to our breathing: They're made of the moon. She's a pale, ...
Too high, too high to pluck My heart shall swing. A fruit no bee shall suck, No wasp shall sting. ...
Lovers eminent in love Ever diversities combine; The vocal chords of the cushat-dove, The snake's articulated spine. Such elective elements ...
Liza, go steep your long white hands In the cool waters of that spring Which bubbles up through shiny sands ...
Let us walk in the white snow In a soundless space; With footsteps quiet snd slow, At a tranquil pace, ...
The rain's cold grains are silver-gray Sharp as golden sands, A bell is clanging, people sway Hanging by their hands. ...
Better to see your cheek grown hollow, Better to see your temple worn, Than to forget to follow, follow, After ...
All that I dream By day or night Lives in that stream Of lovely light. Here is the earth, And ...
Allegra, rising from her canopied dreams, Slides both white feet across the slanted beams Which lace the peacock jalousies: behold ...
Hate in the world's hand Can carve and set its seal Like the strong blast of sand Which cuts into ...
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