A Far Cry From Africa (Derek Walcott Poems)
A wind is ruffling the tawny pelt Of Africa, Kikuyu, quick as flies, Batten upon the bloodstreams of the veldt. ...
A wind is ruffling the tawny pelt Of Africa, Kikuyu, quick as flies, Batten upon the bloodstreams of the veldt. ...
Naked she lay, clasped in my longing arms, I filled with love, and she all over charms; Both equally inspired ...
Give me leave to rail at you, - I ask nothing but my due: To call you false, and then ...
At five this morn, when Phoebus raised his head From Thetis' lap, I raised myself from bed, And mounting steed, ...
O Mother Earth! upon thy lap Thy weary ones receiving, And o'er them, silent as a dream, Thy grassy mantle ...
The description of Christ the beloved. SS 5:9-16. The wond'ring world inquires to know Why I should love my Jesus ...
The saint's trial and safety. Unshaken as the sacred hill, And firm as mountains be, Firm as a rock the ...
Straight through my heart this fact to-day, By Truth's own hand is driven: God never takes one thing away, But ...
1 O TAKE my hand, Walt Whitman! Such gliding wonders! such sights and sounds! Such join'd unended links, each hook'd ...
They call me and I go. It is a frozen road past midnight, a dust of snow caught in the ...
Just off the Highway to Rochester, Minnesota Twilight bounds softly forth on the grass. And the eyes of those two ...
for J.L.D. Why should we do this? What good is it to us? Above all, how can we do such ...
And how can I, born in evil days And fresh from failure, ask a kindness of Fate? -- Written A.D. ...
BOOK FIRST. I. ALL valor died not on the plains of Troy. Awake, my Muse, awake! be thine the joy ...
When Yankies, skill'd in martial rule, First put the British troops to school; Instructed them in warlike trade, And new ...
Would 'any woman' find me difficult to live with? My tastes are simple: space for several thousand books, The smoke ...
From the French of Andr? Fr?naud France was born there and it is from there she sings Of Joan of ...
"Friends, Romans, Countrymen, and Lovers." Let such pure hate still underprop Our love, that we may be Each other's conscience, ...
You often look at her at some nights, when she is asleep so sound so tight. You wonder how come ...
For God has given us a language of monosyllables to prevent our clipping. For a toad enjoys a finer prospect ...
For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry. For he is the servant of the Living God, duly and daily serving ...
She is free of the trap and the paddle, The portage and the trail, But something behind her savage life ...
Scene, on the Cliffs to the Eastward of the Town of Brighthelmstone in Sussex. Time, a Morning in November, 1792. ...
See you the towers, that, gray and old, Frown through the sunlight's liquid gold, Steep sternly fronting steep? The Hellespont ...
For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry. For he is the servant of the Living God duly and daily serving ...
For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry. For he is the servant of the Living God duly and daily serving ...
As, when a lofty pile is raised, We never hear the workmen praised, Who bring the lime, or place the ...
As Rochefoucauld his maxims drew From nature, I believe 'em true: They argue no corrupted mind In him; the fault ...
Desponding Phillis was endu'd With ev'ry Talent of a Prude, She trembled when a Man drew near; Salute her, and ...
O Sacred Muse, my lyre excuse! - My verse is vagrant singing; Rhyme I invoke for simple folk Of penny-wise ...
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