The Ghetto (Lola Ridge Poems)
ICool, inaccessible airIs floating in velvety blackness shot with steel-blue lights,But no breath stirs the heatLeaning its ponderous bulk upon ...
Lola Ridge Poems on Birds (6 Poems)
Betty (Lola Ridge Poems)
You can see the sandhills from our new room.Butterflieslive in the sandhillsand lizardsand centipedes.If you keep very stilllizards will think ...
The White Bird (Lola Ridge Poems)
Man of the flame-eyesAnd mouth with the bitter twist of in-grown laughter,And little bald man . . . whose seeming ...
Dawn Wind (Lola Ridge Poems)
Wind, just arisen -(Off what cool mattress of marsh-mossIn tented boughs leaf-drawn before the stars,Or niche of cliff under the ...
Under-Song (Lola Ridge Poems)
There is music in the strongDeep-throated bush,Whisperings of songHeard in the leaves' hush -Ballads of the treesIn tongues unknown -A ...
Tidings (Lola Ridge Poems)
(Easter 1916)Censored lies that mimic truth…Censored truth as pale as fear…My heart is like a rousing bell -And but the ...