Consolation (Billy Collins Poem)
How agreeable it is not to be touring Italy this summer, wandering her cities and ascending her torrid hilltowns. How ...
How agreeable it is not to be touring Italy this summer, wandering her cities and ascending her torrid hilltowns. How ...
All afternoon I have been struggling to communicate in Italian with Roberto and Giuseppe, who have begun to resemble the ...
There are many cumbersome ways to kill a man. You can make him carry a plank of wood to the ...
Every month or so, Sundays, we walked the line, The limit and the boundary. Past the sweet gum Superb above ...
The summer morn is bright and fresh, the birds are darting by, As if they loved to breast the breeze ...
Come, take our boy, and we will go Before our cabin door; The winds shall bring us, as they blow, ...
If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is for ...
If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is for ...
Just now the lilac is in bloom, All before my little room; And in my flower-beds, I think, Smile the ...
If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is for ...
There are many cumbersome ways to kill a man. You can make him carry a plank of wood to the ...
Who was frightened by a Passing Motor, and was brought to Reason "Oh murder! What was that, Papa!" "My child, ...
Who was too Freely Moved to Tears, and thereby ruined his Political Career Lord Lundy from his earliest years Was ...
Remote and ineffectual Don That dared attack my Chesterton, With that poor weapon, half-impelled, Unlearnt, unsteady, hardly held, Unworthy for ...
He yelled at me in Greek, my God!â?"It's not his language and I'm no good atâ?"his Aramaic, wasâ?"I am a ...
I. Your ghost will walk, you lover of trees, (If our loves remain) In an English lane, By a cornfield-side ...
I. The morn when first it thunders in March, The eel in the pond gives a leap, they say: As ...
NO more wine? then we'll push back chairs and talk. A final glass for me, though: cool, i' faith! We ...
either peace or happiness, let it enfold you when i was a young man I felt these things were dumb,unsophisticated. ...
Oh, why should a hen have been run over on West 4th Street in the middle of summer? She was ...
Here is a coast; here is a harbor; here, after a meager diet of horizon, is some scenery: impractically shaped ...
LEAVE me a little while alone, Here at his grave that still is strown With crumbling flower and wreath; The ...
In the red-roofed stucco house of my childhood, the dining room was screened off by folding doors with small glass ...
How changed is here each spot man makes or fills! In the two Hinkseys nothing keeps the same; The village ...
FAREWEEL to a' our Scottish fame, Fareweel our ancient glory; Fareweel ev'n to the Scottish name, Sae fam'd in martial ...
HONEST 1 Will to Heaven's away And mony shall lament him; His fau'ts they a' in Latin lay, In English ...
O HAD each Scot of ancient times Been, Jeanie Scott, as thou art; The bravest heart on English ground Had ...
Fareweel to a' our Scottish fame, Fareweel our ancient glory; Fareweel ev'n to the Scottish name, Sae famed in martial ...
My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white. White as ...
Man. In a cleft that's christened Alt Under broken stone I halt At the bottom of a pit That broad ...
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