April 21 (David Lehman Poems)
I'm a very average person, and I think most people are. I vote with the common man. I have two ...
I'm a very average person, and I think most people are. I vote with the common man. I have two ...
Would I might wake St. Francis in you all, Brother of birds and trees, God's Troubadour, Blinded with weeping for ...
I. EDWIN BOOTH An old actor at the Player's Club told me that Edwin Booth first impersonated Hamlet when a ...
Sweetheart Spring Our Sweetheart, Spring, came softly, Her gliding hands were fire, Her lilac breath upon our cheeks Consumed us ...
A POEM DEDICATED TO ALL CRUSADERS AGAINST THE INTERNATIONAL AND INTERSTATE TRAFFIC IN YOUNG GIRLS Galahad . . . soldier ...
Kiss me and comfort my heart Maiden honest and fine. I am the pilgrim boy Lame, but hunting the shrine; ...
There dwelt a widow learned and devout, Behind our hamlet on the eastern hill. Three sons she had, who went ...
On he goes, the little one, Bud of the universe, Pediment of life. Setting off somewhere, apparently. Whither away, brisk ...
Thou two-faced year, Mother of Change and Fate, Didst weep when Spain cast forth with flaming sword, The children of ...
My little love, my darling, You were a doorway to me; You let me out of the confines Into this ...
Chapter I. Once on a time, a Dawn, all red and bright Leapt on the conquered ramparts of the Night, ...
Along the avenue of cypresses, All in their scarlet cloaks and surplices Of linen, go the chanting choristers, The priests ...
It was three slim does and a ten-tined buck in the bracken lay; And all of a sudden the sinister ...
Out of burlap sacks, out of bearing butter, Out of black bean and wet slate bread, Out of the acids ...
I walk among the rows of bowed heads-- the children are sleeping through fourth grade so as to be ready ...
My father and mother, two tiny figures, side by side, facing the clouds that move in from the Atlantic. August, ...
Still sober, César Vallejo comes home and finds a black ribbon around the apartment building covering the front door. He ...
1 We live here because the houses are clean, the lawns run right to the street and the streets run ...
(Note: - Pocahontas is buried at Gravesend, England.) "Pocahontas' body, lovely as a poplar, sweet as a red haw in ...
A curse upon each king who leads his state, No matter what his plea, to this foul game, And may ...
One day a mother died. And on that clear, cold morning, in the warmth of her bedroom, the daughter was ...
Today, many will awaken with a fresh sense of inspiration. Why not you? Today, many will open their eyes to ...
It is true love because I put on eyeliner and a concerto and make pungent observations about the great issues ...
A governor it was proclaimed this time, When all who would come seeking in New Hampshire Ancestral memories might come ...
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