The Bad Old Days (Kenneth Rexroth Poems)
The summer of nineteen eighteenI read The Jungle and TheResearch Magnificent. That fallMy father died and my auntTook me to ...
The summer of nineteen eighteenI read The Jungle and TheResearch Magnificent. That fallMy father died and my auntTook me to ...
"TO wade the sea-mist, then to wade the seaJL at dawn, let drift your garments one by one,follow the clean ...
A stretch of hill and valley, swathed thick in robes of white,The buildings blots of blackness, the windows gems of ...
ITHE TURK'S WAYStand back, ye messengers of mercy! Stand Far off, for I will save my troubled folk In my own way. ...
O Lord, our father,Our young patriots, idols of our hearts,Go forth to battle - be Thou near them!With them, in ...
LONGFELLOW.WITH a glory of winter sunshineOver his locks of gray,In the old historic mansionHe sat on his last birthday;With his ...
Aye, sure, it does always be rainin' An' the hay lyin' out in the wet,But what's the good o' complainin'? It never ...
Most tangible of all the gods that be,O Santa Claus-- our own since Infancy!As first we scampered to thee-- now, ...
Wake up again, sad heart, wake up again !(I heard the birds this morning singing sweet.)Wake up again ! The ...
Still waters run deep and life is deeper still,The meaning of time and the passing of days,Like the tranquil pond ...
In foggy drizzle, in deep snow white,In the wild wood wide, in a winter night,I heard the hooting of the ...
O domes of crystal!O curious plants forever sheltered,While the wind stirs my senses here without!A valley of the soul forever ...
Woman of weeping eye, ah! for thy wretched lot,Putting on smiles to lure the lewd passenger,Smiling while anguish gnaws at ...
Packed in my mind lie all the clothes Which outward nature wears,And in its fashion's hourly change It all things else repairs.In ...
(A Fairy)White and golden here she lies;Mouth-of-Rose was she.Violets hide her sleeping eyes;Leaves of rosemaryKeep her from the rainy skies,Winter's ...
Water drinks its paradise in the sea,and sweat finds horizon, uproar, crest.Sweat is a brimming salty tree,a greedy surf.To offer ...
The dawn came in through the bars of the blind,-- And the winter's dawn is gray,-- And said, "However you cheat your ...
When high noon on a summer's daymakes the sky a fiery furnaceand the heart seeks a quiet corner for dreams,then ...
Now a whole year has waxed and waned and whitenedOver the mounds that marked the grim advance;The winter snows have ...
For to itself it oft so diverse grew,That still it seemed the same, and still it seemed a new.Giles Fletcher.SEEK ...
I.He sang a song as he sowed the field, Sowed the field at break of day:"When the pursed-up leaves are as ...
This is a wild land, country of my choice,With harsh craggy mountain, moor ample and bare.Seldom in these acres is ...
The snowdrop, Winter's timid child,Awakes to life, bedew'd with tears;And flings around its fragrance mild,And where no rival flow'rets bloom,Amid ...
Ah me! the rain has a sadder sound Than it ever had before;And the wind more plaintively whistles through The crevices of ...
Robinson at cards at the Algonquin; a thinBlue light comes down once more outside the blinds.Gray men in overcoats are ...
Let us be thankful--not only because Since last our universal thanks were told We have grown greater in the world's applause, And fortune's ...
I Winter without And warmth within; The winds may shout And the storm begin; The snows may pack At the window pane, And the skies grow black, And ...
The dead leaves strew the forest walk,And whither'd are the pale flowers;The frost hangs blackening on the stalk,The dew-drops fall ...
Sweet chestnuts brown like soling leather turn; The larch trees, like the colour of the Sun;That paled sky in the Autumn ...
On the Sunday morning mustered,Yarning at our ease;Buggies, traps and jinkers clusteredUnderneath the trees,Horses tethered to the fences;Thus we hold ...
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