As It Begins With A Brush Stroke On A Snare Drum (Larry Levis Poems)
The plaza was so still in that moment two years ago thateverything was clear,As if it had been preserved beneath ...
The plaza was so still in that moment two years ago thateverything was clear,As if it had been preserved beneath ...
FROM the heart of Waumbek Methna, from thelake that never fails,Falls the Saco in the green lap of Conway'sintervales;There, in ...
iAt Turney in Flanders I was bornFore-doomed to splendour and sorrow,For I was a king when they cut the corn,And ...
While I reclineAt ease beneathThis immemorial pine,Small sphere!(By dusky fingers brought this morning hereAnd shown with boastful smiles),I turn thy ...
What of the years of Englishmen? What have they brought of growth and graceSince mud-built London by its fen Became the Briton's ...
A Parliamentary Debate.All ye who with credulity the whispers hear of fancy,Or yet pursue with eagerness hope's wild extravagancy,Who dream ...
What, wide awake, sweet stranger, wide awake?And laughing coyly at an English sun,And blessing him with smiles for having thaw'dThine ...
Edward the king, the English king, Bestrides his tawny steed, "For I will see if Wales," said he, "Accepts my rule indeed. "Are stream ...
It takes a lot of a person's lifeTo be French, or English, or AmericanOr Italian. And to be at any ...
The burghers six of Calais,True were they and brave;To save their fellow-townsmenTheir lives they freely gave.Will ye hear their story?Come ...
AH, to be by Mooni now! Where the great dark hills of wonder, Scarred with storm and cleft asunder By ...
Dark fell the night, the watch was set,The host was idly spread,The Danes around their watchfires met,Caroused, and fiercely fed.The ...
What did I do, sonny, in the Great World War?Well, I learned to peel potatoes and to scrub the barrack ...
What did I do, sonny, in the Great World War?Well, I learned to peel potatoes and to scrub the barrack ...
XLIGuelpho next them the land and place possest,Whose fortunes good with his great acts agree,By his Italian sire, fro the ...
I dreamed I was in fair Niphon.Amid tea-fields I journeyed on,Reclined in my jinrikishaw;Across the rolling plains I sawThe lordly ...
I had a dream this morning off Madeira,About my poem and its publication.Methought it was still-born, and I could hear ...
There'll be royal times in Sydney for the Cuff and Collar Push, There'll be lots of dreary drivel and clap-trapFrom the ...
Ye Thirty noble Nations Confederate in One!That keep your starry stations Around the Western Sun,—I have a glorious mission, And must obey the ...
Tell the story to your sonsOf the gallant days of yoreWhen the brig of seven gunsFought the fleet of seven ...
O Radiant Land! o'er whom the Sun's first dawningFell brightest when God said " Let there be Light;"'O'er whom the ...
YOUNG Edward was a noble youth,A finer ne'er was seen;He was his aged gran-dam's pride,And lov'd by all the green.Yet ...
Do not lift him from the bracken,Leave him lying where he fell-Better bier ye cannot fashion:None beseems him half so ...
In thin clear light unshadowed shapes go bySmall on green fields beneath the hueless sky.They do not stay for question, ...
Fair stood the wind for France, When we our sails advance; Nor now to prove our chance Longer will tarry; But putting to the ...
YOU have waited, Priests of Ireland, until the hour was late:You have stood with folded arms until 'twas asked-Why do ...
For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry.For he is the servant of the Living God duly and daily serving him.For ...
If any Philosophers have written of these Subjects, as Imake no question, or doubt, but they have, of all thatNature ...
High travelling winds by royal hill Their awful anthem sing,And songs exalted flow and fill The caverns of the spring.To-night across a ...
For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry.For he is the servant of the Living God, duly and daily serving him.For ...
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