The Filipino Politician (Nick Carbo Poems)
When he finds his wife in bed with another man--The conservative politician feels an ache in his stomach,remembers the longanisa ...
When he finds his wife in bed with another man--The conservative politician feels an ache in his stomach,remembers the longanisa ...
Souls of Poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy cavern, Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern? Have ye tippled ...
DEAR friends, left darkling in the long eclipseThat veils the noonday,--you whose finger-tipsA meaning in these ridgy leaves can findWhere ...
Back once again in wild, wet MonaghanExiled from thought and feeling,A mean brutality reigns:It is really a horrible position to ...
IT WATCHED ME in the cradle laid, and from my boyhood's homeIt glared above my shoulder-blade when I wrote my ...
And of me say the fools:I entered the lodges of womenAnd never left.And they call for my hanging,Because about the ...
If it be true, as some have dreamed,That all have lived and loved before,I cannot wonder it hath seemedThat on ...
Now I become myself. It's takenTime, many years and places;I have been dissolved and shaken,Worn other people's faces,Run madly, as ...
Write to thine eyes? Why, my poor penQuails at the unequal task;I fear you don't appreciateThe mighty boon you ask.Thine ...
(With apologies to a beautiful poem.) Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe decrease By cautious birth-control and die in peace) Mellow with learning ...
Sunflowers beside the railroad tracks,sunflowers giving back the beauty God gave youto one lonely travelerwho spies you from a train ...
Shell, whose lips, than mine more cold,Might with Dian's ear make bold,Seek my Lady's; if thou winTo that portal, shut ...
I don't want to be writing poems.Don't believe there's joy in that. It is false.I would like to be kneading ...
You are the apple of my eye,My heart's delight:I am remote from my valley,To me you are the Burning Bush ...
All's for the best! be sanguine and cheerful, Trouble and Sorrow are friends in disguise,Nothing but Folly goes faithless and fearful, Courage ...
WEAVE me a rhyme to-day:No pleasant roundelay,But some vague, restless yearning' of the heartShaped with but little artTo broken numbers, ...
So the last poem is laid flat in its place,And Crickley with Crucifix Comer leaves from my faceElizabethans and night-working ...
Creator Spirit uncreatedSails on fleet waves far away,Worlds heave, Lives are generated,His Eye spans Eternity.All inspiriting reigns his Countenance,In its ...
A SENTIMENTThis "sentiment" was read on the same occasion as the "Family Record,"which immediately follows it. The latter poem is ...
"THE blackbird's in the briar,The seagull's on the ground-They are nests, and they're more than nests," he said,"They are tokens ...
IT'S my grief that I am not a little white duck,And I'd swim over the sea to France or to ...
All night I dreamed of my home,of the roads that are so longand straight they die in the middle-among the ...
The sunburnt ---- stockman stoodAnd, in a dismal ---- mood,Apostrophized his ---- cuddy;'The ---- nag's no ---- good,He couldn't earn ...
"TELL me, Singer, of the wayWinding down to Arcady?Of the world's roads I am weary--You, with song so brave and ...
When first sent to School (now the Station was Rugby)I fancied my masters and took to the boys;I thought to ...
Elliot Ray Neiderland, home from collegeone winter, hauling a load of Herefordsfrom Hogtown to Guymon with a pint ofEzra Brooks ...
Forget thee? If to dream by night and muse on thee by day;If all the worship deep and wild a poet's ...
A Poem: Or Extracts from the Diary of an Officer in the East.Farewell To England.TEN thousand blessings rest upon the ...
And it was at that age… Poetry arrivedin search of me. I don't know, I don't know whereit came from, ...
Dead he lay among his books!The peace of God was in his looks.As the statues in the gloomWatch o'er Maximilian's ...
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