What boots it, thy virtue,What profit thy parts,While one thing thou lackest,The art of all arts!The only credentials,Passport to success,Opens castle and parlor,—Address, man, Address. The maiden in dangerWas saved…
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FROM his shoulder Hiawatha Took the camera of rosewood, Made of sliding, folding rosewood; Neatly put it all together. In its case it lay compactly, Folded into nearly nothing; But…
Show me dear Christ, thy spouse so bright and clear.What! is it she which on the other shoreGoes richly painted? or which, robb’d and tore,Laments and mourns in Germany and…
Dear friend, far off, my lost desire, So far, so near in woe and weal; O loved the most, when most I feelThere is a lower and a higher; Known and unknown;…
Swift swallows sailing from the Spanish main, O rain-birds racing merrily away From hill-tops parched with heat and sultry plain Of wilting plants and fainting flowers, say– When at the…
Searching my heart for its true sorrow, This is the thing I find to be:That I am weary of words and people, Sick of the city, wanting the sea; Wanting the sticky,…
Hibiscus flowers are cups of fire, (Love me, my lover, life will not stay)The bright poinsettia shakes in the wind, A scarlet leaf is blowing away. A lizard lifts his…
That second time they hunted meFrom hill to plain, from shore to sea,And Austria, hounding far and wideHer blood-hounds through the countryside,Breathed hot and instant on my trace,— I made…
Hay una noche,un tiempo hueco, sin testigos,una noche de unas y silencio,paramo sin orillas,isla de yelo entre los dias;una noche sin nadiesino su soledad multiplicada. Se regresa de unos labiosnocturnos,…
They throw in Drummer Hodge, to restUncoffined—just as found:His landmark is a kopje-crestThat breaks the veldt around:And foreign constellations westEach night above his mound. Young Hodge the drummer never knew—Fresh…
As rivers seek the sea, Much more deep than they,So my soul seeks thee Far away:As running rivers moanOn their course alone So I moan Left alone. As the delicate rose To the sun’s sweet…
A nobler king had never breath– I say it now, and said it then.Who weds with such is wed till death And wedded stays in Heaven. Amen. (And oh, the shirts of…
The rain has spoiled the farmer’s day;Shall sorrow put my books away?Thereby are two days lost:Nature shall mind her own affairs,I will attend my proper cares,In rain, or sun, or…
First the Governor, the Father: He suggested velvet curtains looped about a massy pillar; And the corner of a table, Of a rosewood dining-table. He would hold a scroll of…
Consider the auk;Becoming extinct because he forgot how to fly, and could only walk.Consider man, who may well become extinctBecause he forgot how to walk and learned how to fly…
If poisonous minerals, and if that treeWhose fruit threw death on else immortal us,If lecherous goats, if serpents enviousCannot be ****’d, alas, why should I be?Why should intent or reason,…
Thy voice is on the rolling air; I hear thee where the waters run; Thou standest in the rising sun,And in the setting thou art fair. What art thou then? I cannot…
I plucked my soul out of its secret place, And held it to the mirror of my eye, To see it like a star against the sky, A twitching body…
Love, though for this you riddle me with darts,And drag me at your chariot till I die,—Oh, heavy prince! O, panderer of hearts!—Yet hear me tell how in their throats…
We stood in the shrill electric light, Dumb and sick in the whirling dinWe who had all of love to say And a single second to say it in. “Good-by!”…
Flowers preach to us if we will hear:–The rose saith in the dewy morn,I am most fair;Yet all my loveliness is bornUpon a thorn.The poppy saith amid the corn:Let but…
ANCIEN REGIME I Now that I, tying thy glass mask tightly,May gaze through these faint smokes curling whitely,As thou pliest thy trade in this devil’s-smithy— Which is the poison to…
One without looks in tonightThrough the curtain-*****From the sheet of glistening white;One without looks in tonightAs we sit and thinkBy the fender-brink. We do not discern those eyesWatching in the…
