by Stephen Dunn From her window marshland stretched for miles. If not for egrets and gulls， it reminded her of the moors behind the parsonage， how the...
by Christina Davis She said， I love you. He said， Nothing. （As if there were just one of each word and the one who used it， used it up）。 In the histor...
by Richard Wilbur At the end a "The Prisoner of Zenda，" The King being out of danger， Stewart Granger （As Rudolph Rassendyll） Must swallow a...
by Peter Gizzi If love if then if now if the flowers of if the conditional if of arrows the condition of if if to say light to inhabit light if to spe...
by Ralph Waldo Emerson I like a church； I like a cowl； I love a prophet of the soul； and on my heart monastic aisles Fall like sweet strains， or pensi...
by Lucio Mariani Translated by Anthony Molino I was born in Rockaway， below Brooklyn， on a strip of land that looks like a fat finger stretching into ...
by Richard Jones My mother never appeared in public without lipstick. If we were going out， I'd have to wait by the door until she painted her lip...
by John Greenleaf Whittier Oh， greenly and fair in the lands of the sun， The vines of the gourd and the rich melon run， And the rock and the tree and ...
by Gelett Burgess I never saw a Purple Cow， I never hope to see one， But I can tell you， anyhow， I'd rather see than be one！...
by Robert Lowell I A brackish reach of shoal off Madaket—— The sea was still breaking violently and night Had steamed into our North Atlan...