Lola Ridge Poems Archives - Famous Inspirational Poems, Poetry, Quotes

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 ...

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 Song Of Iron (Lola Ridge Poems)

INot yet hast Thou soundedThy clangorous music,Whose strings are under the mountains…Not yet hast Thou spokenThe blooded, implacable Word…But I ...

The Everlasting Return (Lola Ridge Poems)

It is dark… so dark, I remember the sun on Chios…It is still… so still, I hear the beat of ...

Frank Little At Calvary (Lola Ridge Poems)

IHe walked under the shadow of the HillWhere men are fed into the firesAnd walled apart…Unarmed and alone,He summoned his ...

Celia (Lola Ridge Poems)

Cherry, cherry,glowing on the hearth,bright red cherry..When you try to pick up cherryCelia's shrieksticks in you like a pin.When God ...

Flotsam (Lola Ridge Poems)

Crass rays streaming from the vestibules;Cafes glittering like jeweled teeth;High-flung signsBlinking yellow phosphorescent eyes;Girls in blackCircling monotonouslyAbout the orange lights…Nothing ...

Lullaby (Lola Ridge Poems)

Rock-a-by baby, woolly and brown…(There's a shout at the door an' a big red light…)Lil' coon baby, mammy is down…Han's ...

Broadway (Lola Ridge Poems)

Light!Innumerable ions of light,Kindling, irradiating,All to their foci tending…Light that jingles like anklet chainsOn bevies of little lithe twinkling feet,Or ...

The Edge (Lola Ridge Poems)

I thought to die that night in the solitude where they would never find me…But there was time…And I lay ...

The Spilling Of The Wine (Lola Ridge Poems)

The soldiers lie upon the snow,That no longer gyrates under the spinning lightsNight juggles in her fat black hands.They will ...

Cactus Seed (Lola Ridge Poems)

Radiant notes piercing my narrow-chested room, beating down through my ceiling- smeared with unshapen belly-prints of dreams drifted out of ...

Faces (Lola Ridge Poems)

A late snow beatsWith cold white fists upon the tenements -Hurriedly drawing blinds and shutters,Like tall old slatternsPulling aprons about ...

Spring (Lola Ridge Poems)

A spring wind on the Bowery,Blowing the fluff of night sheltersOff bedraggled garments,And agitating the gutters, that eject little spirals ...

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 ...

Snow Dance For The Dead (Lola Ridge Poems)

Dance, little children ... it is holy twilight . . .Have you hung paper flowers about the necks of the ...

The Legion Of Iron (Lola Ridge Poems)

They pass through the great iron gates -Men with eyes gravely discerning,Skilled to appraise the tunnage of cranesOr split an ...

A Toast (Lola Ridge Poems)

Not your martyrs anointed of heaven -The ages are red where they trod -But the Hunted - the world's bitter ...

The Woman With Jewels (Lola Ridge Poems)

The woman with jewels sits in the cafe,Spraying light like a fountain.Diamonds glitter on her bulbous fingersAnd on her arms, ...

Manhattan (Lola Ridge Poems)

Out of the night you burn, Manhattan,In a vesture of gold -Span of innumerable arcs,Flaring and multiplying -Gold at the ...

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 ...

The Garden (Lola Ridge Poems)

Bountiful Givers,I look along the yearsAnd see the flowers you threw…AnemonesAnd sprigs of graySparse heather of the rocks,Or a wild ...

Jaguar (Lola Ridge Poems)

Nasal intonations of lightand clicking tongues * * *publicity of windowsstoning me with pent-up cries * * *smells of abattoirs ...

After Storm (Lola Ridge Poems)

Was there a wind? Tap. tap. Night pads upon the snow with moccasined feet. and it is still. so still. ...

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 ...

Promenade (Lola Ridge Poems)

Undulant rustlings,Of oncoming silk,Rhythmic, incessant,Like the motion of leaves…Fragments of colorIn glowing surprises…Pink inuendoesHooded in grayLike buds in a cobwebPearled ...

The Song (Lola Ridge Poems)

That day, in the slipping of torsos and straining flankson the bloodied ooze of fields plowed by the iron,And the ...

Dispossed (Lola Ridge Poems)

Tender and tremulous green of leavesTurned up by the wind,Twanging among the vines -Wind in the grassBlowing a clear pathFor ...

Dispossessed (Lola Ridge Poems)