“WHAT have I earned for all that work,’ I said,‘For all that I have done at my own charge?The daily spite of this unmannerly town,Where who has served the most…
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I I sought a theme and sought for it in vain,I sought it daily for six weeks or so.Maybe at last, being but a broken man,I must be satisfied with…
IMy Paistin Finn is my sole desire,And I am shrunken to skin and bone,For all my heart has had for its hireIs what I can whistle alone and alone.Oro, oro.!Tomorrow…
What need you, being come to sense,But fumble in a greasy tillAnd add the halfpence to the penceAnd prayer to shivering prayer, untilYou have dried the marrow from the bone?For…
WHEN have I last looked onThe round green eyes and the long wavering bodiesOf the dark leopards of the moon?All the wild witches, those most noble ladies,For all their broom-sticks…
I know, although when looks meetI tremble to the bone,The more I leave the door unlatchedThe sooner love is gone,For love is but a skein unwoundBetween the dark and dawn.…
I FASTED for some forty days on bread and buttermilk,For passing round the bottle with girls in rags or silk,In country shawl or Paris cloak, had put my wits astray,And…
NOW as at all times I can see in the mind’s eye,In their stiff, painted clothes, the pale unsatisfied onesAppear and disappear in the blue depth of the skyWith all…
Poets with whom I learned my trade.Companions of the Cheshire Cheese,Here’s an old story I’ve remade,Imagining ‘twould better pleaseYour cars than stories now in fashion,Though you may think I waste…
IF you have revisited the town, thin Shade,Whether to look upon your monument(I wonder if the builder has been paid)Or happier-thoughted when the day is spentTo drink of that salt…