News (Kenneth Koch Poems)
They stirI cool her in winterA second so gilded that the bit goesFrom my gold thigh I thirsts for her, stirring, from my ...
They stirI cool her in winterA second so gilded that the bit goesFrom my gold thigh I thirsts for her, stirring, from my ...
Stranger, there is bending o'er theeMany an eye with sorrow wet;All our stricken hearts deplore thee;Who, that knew thee, can ...
There are the modern prophets here,Though altars totally are felt, Their eyes are very deep and clear -In them, the ...
There are no stars to-nightBut those of memory.Yet how much room for memory there isIn the loose girdle of soft ...
There are no stars to-nightBut those of memory.Yet how much room for memory there isIn the loose girdle of soft ...
Fame surrounds us with a glory,Dazzling as the noon-day sun,And upon the page of story,Blazons deeds of greatness done.But 'tis ...
How bright the room seemed! It was as if a ray of light came from the book, a luminous tree ...
'Tis strange, profanely strange, but men will stand Upon some spot of blighted happiness,Where the Omnipotent's mysterious hand Has fallen with disaster ...
By the hut, left by people and heaven,Where the fence's black remnants are steeping, The ragged beggar and black old ...
You are the Rose of me,In you have I lost myself utterly,Your fragrance, as a breath from Paradise,About me ever ...
The world is charged with the grandeur of God.It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;It gathers to a ...
Man, Earth's poor shadow! talks of Earth's decay: But hath it nothing of eternal kin?No majesty that shall not pass away? No ...
I SAW in dream an Empire on its knees;There on the mount of God, linked hand in hand,Behold, two mighty ...
The heroes of the present and the past Were puny, vague, and nothingness to thee:Thou didst a span grasp mighty to ...
Within the doorway of your room to-nightI stood, and saw your little treasures allSet out beneath the golden candle-light,While silver ...
She stands like one with mazy cares distraught.Around her sudden angry storm-clouds rise,Dark, dark! and comes the look into her ...
Lift up your hearts ! A foe is at the gateJealous of England's greatness, jealous tooOf all that she has ...
Who knows what is going on on the other side of each hour? How many times the sunrise wasthere, behind a ...
See the greatness of Krishna;though Lord, Father and Master of the worldhe willingly bears the arrogance of his close devoteesShiva ...
Let's look straightAt the greatness of the stars,Raising our eyes from the dewed fields.It's said that they glow for you,Insect ...
While morning yet was young, within his hall Of justice Pharaoh sat: his princes, priests, Judges, and ministers, in costly ...
But when the days were numbered, then befellThe parting of our Lord — which was to be —Whereby came wailing ...
THERE'S a mansion old 'mid the hills of the west,So old, that men know not by whom it was built;But ...
ORIGIN OF THE SERPENT.Ahti, living on the island,Near the Kauko-point and harbor,Plowed his fields for rye and barley,Furrowed his extensive ...
ADDRESSED TO THE CRITICAL REVIEWERS. Tristitiam et Metus.--HORACE.Laughs not the heart when giants, big with pride,Assume the pompous port, the ...
Ah, Needwood! I, whose early voiceTaught thy shrill echoes to rejoice;I, who first pour'd the sylvan songThy glades, thy banks, ...
Scene, on the Cliffs to the Eastward of the Town ofBrighthelmstone in Sussex. Time, a Morning in November, 1792.Slow in ...
For a Man is to be looked upon in that which he excells as on a prospect. For there be ...
I.Before PROSPERO'S cell. Moonlight.ARIEL.So - Prospero is gone - and I am free -Free, free at last. His latest charge ...
Scene, on an Eminence on one of those Downs, which afford to the South a view of the Sea; to ...
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