A.E. Housman |
Infant Innocence A.E. Housman The Grizzly Bear is huge and wild; He has devoured the infant child. The infant child is not aware It has been eaten by the bear. Posted by on Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:57:00 GMT |
Poe (cont.) |
THE CONQUEROR WORM by Edgar Allan Poe 1843 Lo! 'tis a gala night Within the lonesome latter years! An angel throng, bewinged, bedight In veils, and drowned in tears, Sit in a theatre, to see ... Posted by on Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:00:00 GMT |
Edgar Allan Poe |
ISRAFELEdgar Allan Poe In Heaven a spirit doth dwell "Whose heart-strings are a lute"; None sing so wildly well As the angel Israfel, And the giddy stars (so legends tell), Ceasing their hymn... Posted by on Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:58:00 GMT |
David Slavitt |
TitanicWho does not love the Titanic? If they sold passage tomorrow for that same crossing, who would not buy? To go down...We all go down, mostly alone. But with crowds of people, friends, ser... Posted by on Wed, 21 May 2008 14:50:00 GMT |
Tennyson |
Charge of the Light BrigadeHalf a league half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred: 'Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns' he said: Into the... Posted by on Wed, 21 May 2008 14:45:00 GMT |
E.A. Robinson |
Richard CoryWhenever Richard Cory went down town, We people on the pavement looked at him: He was a gentleman from sole to crown, Clean-favoured and imperially slim. And he was always quietly arra... Posted by on Wed, 21 May 2008 14:43:00 GMT |
Bukowski |
Dinosauria, We Born like this Into this As the chalk faces smile As Mrs. Death laughs As the elevators break As political landscapes dissolve As the supermarket bag boy holds a college degree... Posted by on Wed, 14 May 2008 16:01:00 GMT |
Robert Frost |
Birches When I see birches bend to left and right Across the lines of straighter darker trees, I like to think some boy's been... Posted by on Wed, 14 May 2008 15:45:00 GMT |
Bukowski (again) |
The Genius of the Crowdthere is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the averagehuman being to supply any given army on any given dayand the best at murder are those who preach against itand... Posted by on Wed, 14 May 2008 14:14:00 GMT |
Larkin Again |
The Old Fools What do they think has happened, the old fools,To make them like this? Do they somehow supposeIt's more grown-up when your mouth hangs ... Posted by on Thu, 08 May 2008 13:37:00 GMT |