I Oh Galuppi, Baldassaro, this is very sad to find!I can hardly misconceive you; it would prove me deaf and blind;But although I give you credit, ’tis with such a…
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If he should lie a-dying I am not willing you should goInto the earth, where Helen went;She is awake by now, I know.Where Cleopatra’s anklets rustYou will not lie with…
At the round earth’s imagined corners blowYour trumpets, angels, and arise, ariseFrom death, you numberless infinitiesOf souls, and to your scattered bodies go,All whom the flood did, and fire shall,…
Why should I keep holiday,When other men have none?Why but because when these are ***,I sit and mourn alone. And why when mirth unseals all tonguesShould mine alone be dumb?Ah!…
I built my soul a lordly pleasure-house, Wherein at ease for aye to dwell.I said, “O Soul, make merry and carouse, Dear soul, for all is well.” A huge crag-platform, smooth as…
Breathe not, hid Heart: cease silently,And though thy birth-hour beckons thee,Sleep the long sleep:The Doomsters heapTravails and teens around us here,And Time-Wraiths turn our songsingings to fear. Hark, how the…
I will not toy with it nor bend an inch. Deep in the secret chambers of my heart I muse my life-long hate, and without flinch I bear it nobly…
I thought I had forgotten, But it all came back againTo-night with the first spring thunder In a rush of rain.I remembered a darkened doorway Where we stood while the…
“O day! he cannot dieWhen thou so fair art shining!O Sun, in such a glorious sky,So tranquilly declining; He cannot leave thee now,While fresh west winds are blowing,And all around…
The peacock has a score of eyes, With which he cannot see;The cod-fish has a silent sound, However that may be; No dandelions tell the time, Although they turn to clocks;Cat’s-cradle does not…
Needle, needle, dip and dart,Thrusting up and down,Where’s the man could ease a heartLike a satin gown? See the stitches curve and crawlRound the cunning seams–Patterns thin and sweet and…
”Tis the voice of the Lobster: I heard him declare‘You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair.’As a duck with its eyelids, so he with his noseTrims…
Between going and staying the day wavers,in love with its own transparency. The circular afternoon is now a baywhere the world in stillness rocks. All is visible and all elusive,all…
Out of my flesh that hungersand my mouth that knowscomes the shape I am seekingfor reason.The curve of your waiting bodyfits my waiting handyour ******* warm as sunlightyour lips quick…
I lie on my back at midnighthearing the marvelous strange chimeof the clocks, and know it’s mid-night and in that instant the wholeworld swims into sight for mein the form…
There is one thing that ought to be taught in all the colleges,Which is that people ought to be taught not to go around always making apologies.I don’t mean the…
I wonder how you feel to-dayAs I have felt since, hand in hand,We sat down on the grass, to strayIn spirit better through the land,This morn of Rome and May?…
Your door is shut against my tightened face,And I am sharp as steel with discontent;But I possess the courage and the graceTo bear my anger proudly and unbent.The pavement slabs…
The railroad track is miles away, And the day is loud with voices speaking,Yet there isn’t a train goes by all day But I hear its whistle shrieking. All night there isn’t…
Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white;Nor waves the cypress in the palace walk;Nor winks the gold fin in the porphyry font:The fire-fly wakens: waken thou with me. Now…
This is my play’s last scene, here heavens appointMy pilgrimage’s last mile; and my raceIdly, yet quickly run, hath this last pace,My span’s last inch, my minute’s latest point,And gluttonous…
‘Whenever I plunge my arm, like this, In a basin of water, I never missThe sweet sharp sense of a fugitive dayFetched back from its thickening shroud of gray.Hence the…
Oh, I’d been better dying,;;Oh, I was slow and sad;A fool I was, a-crying;;About a cruel lad! But there was one that found me,;;That wept to see me weep,And had…
Higher far,Upward, into the pure realm,Over sun or star,Over the flickering D?mon film,Thou must mount for love,—Into vision which all formIn one only form dissolves;In a region where the wheel,On…
