How can I, that girl standing there,My attention fixOn Roman or on RussianOr on Spanish politics?Yet here’s a traveled man that knowsWhat he talks about,And there’s a politicianThat has read…
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O HEART, be at peace, becauseNor knave nor dolt can breakWhat’s not for their applause,Being for a woman’s sake.Enough if the work has seemed,So did she your strength renew,A dream…
WOULD I could cast a sad on the waterWhere many a king has goneAnd many a king’s daughter,And alight at the comely trees and the lawn,The playing upon pipes and…
I care not what the sailors say:All those dreadful thunder-stones,All that storm that blots the dayCan but show that Heaven yawns;Great Europa played the foolThat changed a lover for a…
“Though to my feathers in the wet,I have stood here from break of day.I have not found a thing to eat,For only rubbish comes my way.Am I to live on…
‘Lay me in a cushioned chair;Carry me, ye four,With cushions here and cushions there,To see the world once more. ‘To stable and to kennel go;Bring what is there to bring;Lead…
A sudden blow: The great wings beating stillAbove the staggering girl, her thighs caressedBy the dark webs, her nape caught in the bill,He holds her helpless breast upon his breast.How can…
Once, when midnight smote the air,Eunuchs ran through Hell and metOn every crowded street to stareUpon great Juan riding by:Even like these to rail and sweatStaring upon his sinewy thigh.
HERE is fresh matter, poet,Matter for old age meet;Might of the Church and the State,Their mobs put under their feet.O but heart’s wine shall run pure,Mind’s bread grow sweet.That were…
He Mourns For The Change That Has Come Upon Him And His Beloved, And Longs For The End Of The World
0 DO you not hear me calling, white deer with no horns?I have been changed to a hound with one red ear;I have been in the Path of Stones and the…