Seventh Street (Jean Toomer Poems)
Money burns the pocket, pocket hurts,Bootleggers in silken shirts,Ballooned, zooming Cadillacs,Whizzing, whizzing down the street-car tracks.Seventh Street is a bastrad ...
Money burns the pocket, pocket hurts,Bootleggers in silken shirts,Ballooned, zooming Cadillacs,Whizzing, whizzing down the street-car tracks.Seventh Street is a bastrad ...
I have sipped, with drooping lashes, Dreamy draughts of Verzenay; I have flourished brandy-smashes In the wildest sort of way; I have joked with ...
MY hovering thoughts would fly to heavenAnd quiet nestle in the sky,Fain would my ship in Virtue's shoreWithout remove at ...
'If wishes were horses'--I've heard when a girl-- 'If wishes were horses, the beggars would ride'-- If wishes were pheasants, I'd wish ...
Fill for me a brimming bowlAnd in it let me drown my soul:But put therein some drug, designedTo Banish Women ...
Wreck not the ageing heart of quietness,With alien uproar and rude jolly cries,Which satyr like to a mild maidens pride,Ripens ...
So hungry-sensitive that hecraves day and night the pap of praise,he'll ease his gripes or fingerpaintin heartsblood on a public ...
O deeper than the noontide seems when blue,Conceived as of yet finer woof than air,Where, as clouds form, folk cherished, ...
After SuvlaNow to the stricken doe And the wounded hindThere comes the Mercy of God That is cool and kind.To the hapless ...
A length of gut whereon the horsehairs whine,The tapping of a hammer on a string,A reed vibrating; these things, more ...
Buzzing of insects through the lamp's faint glow.Of drugs dense vapors, hov'ring in nightly chill.Having compassion on this guest, so ...
"1.WARMING UP THE BOXdelivered on time to persons with city & state line bearing only the words DEATH CITY - ...
But not all unprepared were found the Medes. With restless foot, Belesis through the night, Still to and fro had ...
MOODS OF GINGER MICKThis book was dedicated to "THE BOYS WHO TOOK THE ...
{TO THE Generous SUBSCRIBERS, &c}. The Author finding all Attempts prove vain,Those glittering Smiles from Fortune to obtain:That purblind Goddess ...
FROM the squat tavern laughing to the eastHe turned; within the murmuring babbleceas'd;And red wine split on scattered roses thereExhaled ...
.Comrades, leave me here a little, while as yet 't is early morn: Leave me here, and when you want ...
'Ere! 'Ave a 'eart! 'e sez. "Why, love a duck! A 'uman bein' ain't a choppin' block!There ain't no ...
1295So the land had rest! and the cloud of that heart-sore struggle and painRose from her ancient hills, and peace ...
I.Faith, there's a hantle queer complaintsTo cheenge puir sinners into saints,An' mony divers ways o' deein'That doctors hae a chance ...
Angels of the love affair, do you know that other,the dark one, that other me?1. ANGEL OF FIRE AND GENITALSAngel ...
It was the hour of dawn, When the heart beats thin and small, The window glimmered grey, Framed in a ...
Mr. Simkin B---n---r---d to Lady B---n---r---d, at --- Hall, North. Serious Reflections of Mr. B---n---r---d.--His Bill of Expences.-- The Distresses ...
Let's talk about love, that wonderful thing,Let's blend the scent of Venice with Paris in Spring,Let's gaze at that moon ...
Why stay we at home, now the season is come!Jolly lads let us liquor our throats;Our interest we wrong, if ...
(BIG PINE FLAT, 1871)"Something characteristic," eh? Humph! I reckon you mean by thatSomething that happened in our way, Here at ...
"The drug clerk stands behind the counter Young and dapper and debonair…. Before him burn the great unwinking lights The ...
The gods let slip that fiendish grip Upon me last week Sunday--No fiercer storm than racked my form ...
Women's scarce in Cactus Center, and there ain't no bargain storesFer to start them Monday rushes that break down the ...
Writhing bodies clad in blackFlow past me as I stare.Like beacons on a stormy seaThe lights around them flare.Leather, velvet, ...
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