Dream Song 108: Sixteen below. Our care like stranded hulls (John Berryman Poems)
Sixteen below. Our care like stranded hullslitter all day our little Avenues.It was 28 below.No one goes anywhere. Fabulous callsto ...
Sixteen below. Our care like stranded hullslitter all day our little Avenues.It was 28 below.No one goes anywhere. Fabulous callsto ...
A grace that was lent for a very few hours,By the bountiful Spirit above us;She sleeps like a flower in ...
The winter tarried and the spring was late,And still from wild waste lands to northward blewThe gale that stiffened nightly ...
He sold the one-horned cowand let the money blow through his fingerslike so much spiderweb.Ever since, the stall has been ...
All things are dying round us; days and hours, A multitudinous troop are passing on; Winter is fled, and spring hath shed ...
'Tis golden Autumn, and a mellow haze Envelops all the dreamy countryside; Soon o'er the world will sweep a crimson tideOf fairy ...
THE maiden Spring came laughing down the dales,Her fair brows arched, and on her rosebud mouth,The balm and beauty of ...
O thou whose face hath felt the Winter's wind, Whose eye has seen the snow-clouds hung in mist And the black elm ...
No eve of summer ever can attain The gladness of that eve of late _July_, When 'mid the roses, filled with musk ...
OCTOBER, May of the descending days,Mid-Spring of Autumn, on the shortening stairOf the year's eld abiding still and fair,A pause ...
THROUGHOUT the soft and sunlit dayThe pennoned pines, in strict array,Stand grim and silent, gaunt and gray.But when the blasts ...
THE roofs are dreary with the drifted rimeAnd in the air a stillness as of deathTh'approach of some portentousness foresaith.December ...
The schoolboys still their morning ramble takeTo neighboring village school with playing speed,Loitering with passtime's leisure till they quake,Oft looking ...
We saw those berries, over-ripe and glowing,in weak and tepid light of the October sunpersisting red as blood, in right ...
Short is the reign of summer flow'rs— O'er fruitful vale or fertile plainWe seek in winter's dreary hours One solitary flow'r in ...
March wind, wild wind, blow this day.Whirl the winter snow away. Dry theditches and the hollows-in tracks whereApril follows. Clear ...
The winter moon has such a quiet carThat all the winter nights are dumb with rest.She drives the gradual dark ...
Great hearted brother to the wilderness, Comrade of Wind and Sea! InterpreterOf nomad Nature! Ere the quick'ning stir Of Spring-sap thrills the ...
Evening noise in the burning sunsetOn twilight of winter day.The third call. Hurry, remember me,You that are going away!Emerald wave ...
Here morning in the ploughman's songs is met Ere yet one footstep shows in all the sky,And twilight in the east, ...
Sandalwood-trees with silver-grey stems-Are the first to burst aflame,As if no longer fearingTo be cheated of their birthright,In haste and ...
MARCH comes at last, the labouring lands to free.Rude blusterer, with thy cloud-compelling blast,The pining plains from cark of Winter ...
This is the tomboy month of all the year,March, who comes shouting o'er the winter hills,Waking the world with laughter, ...
The sects send their rumours as they go,For in the spruit the nation shows its heatherNor withers till the rota ...
Still lie the sheltering snows, undimmed and white;And reigns the winter's pregnant silence still;No sign of spring, save that the ...
AMID fresh roses wandering, and the softAnd delicate wealth of apple-blossoms spreadIn tender spirals of blent white and red,Round the ...
Hard are the rocks, the marble, and the steel,The ancient oak with wind and weather tossed;But you, my love, far ...
I STOOD in twilight by the winter's sea;The spectral tides with hollow, hungry roar,Broke massed and mighty on the shrinking ...
Sink, sullen rear-guard of the storm,Behind the Laugen's snowy crest!Already Rotheck's lordly formStands spotless in the radiant west;Blow, winter wind, ...
I saw thee young and beautiful,I saw thee rich and gay,In the first blush of womanhood,Upon thy wedding-day;The church-bells rang,And ...
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