The Division Of Parts (Anne Sexton Poems)
1. Mother, my Mary Gray, once resident of Gloucester and Essex County, a photostat of your will arrived in the ...
1. Mother, my Mary Gray, once resident of Gloucester and Essex County, a photostat of your will arrived in the ...
One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound ...
JANUARY HAIL, January, that bearest here On snowbright breasts the babe-faced year That weeps and trembles to be born. Hail, ...
Oh sharp diamond, my mother! I could not count the cost of all your faces, your moods-- that present that ...
In my dream I milked a cow, the terrible udder like a great rubber lily sweated in my fingers and ...
"Tell Annie I'll be home in time To help her with her Christmas-tree." That's what he wrote, and hark! the ...
Today I opened wide my eyes, And stared with wonder and surprise, To see beneath November skies An apple blossom ...
Only a Leather Medal, hanging there on the wall, Dingy and frayed and faded, dusty and worn and old; Yet ...
I've sung of Violet de Vere, that slinky, minky dame, Of Gertie of the Diamond Tooth, and Touch-the-Button Nell, And ...
'Ave you seen Bill's mug in the Noos to-day? 'E's gyned the Victoriar Cross, they say; Little Bill wot would ...
My folks think I'm a serving maid Each time I visit home; They do not dream I ply a trade ...
It's mighty lonesome-like and drear. Above the Wild the moon rides high, And shows up sharp and needle-clear The emptiness ...
I stood before a candy shop Which with a Christmas radiance shone; I saw my parents pass and stop To ...
I Flat as a drum-head stretch the haggard snows; The mighty skies are palisades of light; The stars are blurred; ...
There are strange things done in the midnight sun By the men who moil for gold; The Arctic trails have ...
Someone's Mother trails the street Wrapt in rotted rags; Broken slippers on her feet Drearily she drags; Drifting in the ...
In the dark and damp of the alley cold, Lay the Christmas tree that hadn't been sold; By a shopman ...
MAKE war songs out of these; Make chants that repeat and weave. Make rhythms up to the ragtime chatter of ...
BEHOLD, as goblins dark of mien And portly tyrants dyed with crime Change, in the transformation scene, At Christmas, in ...
Christmas was in the air and all was well With him, but for a few confusing flaws In divers of ...
He took a frayed hat from his head, And "Peace on Earth" was what he said. "A morsel out of ...
I. Where freezing wastes of dazzl'ing Snow O'er LEMAN'S Lake rose, tow'ring; The BARON GOLFRE'S Castle strong Was seen, the ...
'Twas on a Mountain, near the Western Main An ALIEN dwelt. A solitary Hut Built on a jutting crag, o'erhung ...
Come all you little rouseabouts and climb upon my knee; To-day, you see, is Christmas Day, and so it's up ...
Beyond the land where Leichhardt went, Beyond Sturt's Western track, The rolling tide of change has sent Some strange J.P.'s ...
The woman in the ordinary pudgy downcast girl is crouching with eyes and muscles clenched. Round and pebble smooth she ...
Before the winter morn, Before the earliest cock crow, Jesus Christ was born: Born in a stable, Cradled in a ...
This is the easy time, there is nothing doing. I have whirled the midwife's extractor, I have my honey, Six ...
"HALT! Who goes there?" The sentry's call Rose on the midnight air Above the noises of the camp, The roll ...
It chanced out back at the Christmas time, When the wheat was ripe and tall, A stranger rode to the ...
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