The Cripple (Leon Gellert Poems)
He totters round and dangles those odd shapesThat were his legs. His eyes are never dim.He brags about his fame ...
He totters round and dangles those odd shapesThat were his legs. His eyes are never dim.He brags about his fame ...
'At every cost,' they said, 'it must be done.'They told us in the early afternoon.We sit and wait the coming ...
Yes, I have slain, and taken moving lifeFrom bodies. Yea! And laughed upon the taking;And, having slain, have whetted still ...
With padded feet from out his own dark denComes smiling Lust, once fair and hard to please,But now long overworked with ...
I mind they told me on a noisy hillI sat and disbelieved, and shook my head:"Impossible! Impossible! but stillthese other ...
I see wild waves that break, and breaking-run;And the wild sea-birds wheeling round the ships;But at the dawn, the coming ...
Men moving in a trench, in the clear noon,Whetting their steel within the crumbling earth;Men, moving in a trench 'neath ...
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