Ah, did you once see Shelley plain?"—— Browning. "Shelley? Oh, yes, I saw him often then," The old man said. A dry smile cr...
After the whipping he crawled into bed, Accepting the harsh fact with no great weeping. How funny uncle's hat had looked striped red! He chuckled ...
Here, where men's eyes were empty and as bright As the blank windows set in glaring brick, When the wind strengthens from the sea —— a...
The Planting of the Hemp. (A Virginia Legend.) Captain Hawk scourged clean the seas (Black is the gap below the plank) From the Great North Bank to th...
The moon, a sweeping scimitar, dipped in the stormy straits, The dawn, a crimson cataract, burst through the eastern gates, The cliffs were robed in s...
Gods, what a black, fierce day! The clouds were iron, Wrenched to strange, rugged shapes; the red sun winked Over the rough crest of the hairy wood In...
I am a shell. From me you shall not hear The splendid tramplings of insistent drums, The orbed gold of the viol's voice that comes, Heavy with rad...
A Pharaoh Speaks. I said, "Why should a pyramid Stand always dully on its base? I'll change it! Let the top be hid, The bottom take the apex-...
You do not do, you do not do Any more, black shoe In which I have lived like a foot For thirty years, poor and white, Barely daring to breathe or Acho...
Something strange is creeping across me. La Celestina has only to warble the first few bars Of "I Thought about You" or something mellow fro...