#Americans
What well-heeled knuckle-head, str… Hairstylist and bathed in Russian… Dallies with you these late summer… In your expensive sublet? For who… Slip into something simple by, say…
It’s all very well to dream of a d… Picasso’s or the Pope’s, The one that annually coos in Our… Half the world’s hopes, And the other one that shall cunni…
Samuel Sewall, in a world of wigs… Flouted opinion in his personal ha… For foppery he gave not any figs, But in his right and honor took th… Thus in his naked style, though we…
The barbed-wire fences rust As their cedar uprights blacken After a night of rain. Some early, innocent lust Gets me outdoors to smell
Tonight my children hunch Toward their Western, and are gla… As, with a Sunday punch, The Good casts out the Bad. And in their fairy tales
So there stood Matthew Arnold and… With the cliffs of England crumbl… And he said to her, 'Try to be tr… And I’ll do the same for you, for… All over, etc., etc.’
The harbingers are come. See, se… White is their colour; and behold… —George Herbert Long gone the smoke-and-pepper chi… Of the smoldering immolation of th…
For William and Emily Maxwell At this time of day One could hear the caulking irons… Against the hulls in the dockyard. Tar smoke rose between trees
Against the enormous rocks of a ro… The ocean rams itself in pitched a… And spastic rage to which there is… Foam-white brigades collapse; but… Has infinite reserves; at each att…
In Italy, where this sort of thin… I had a vision once - though you u… It was nothing at all like Dante’… And perhaps not a vision at all.… Picking my way through a warm sunl…
For Heinrich Blucher and Hannah… Composed in the Tower before his… These moving verses, and being bro… Painfully to the stake, submitted,… “I implore my God to witness that…
I’m mighty glad to see you, Mrs.… And thank you very kindly for this… Especially now when all the others… Are having holiday visitors, and… A little conspicuous and in the wa…
What is unwisdom but the lusting a… Longevity: to be old and full of d… For the vast and unremitting tide… Casts up to view more sorrowful th… And as for pleasures, once beyond…
Third Avenue in sunlight. Nature… Already the bars are filled and J… Beneath a plentiful lady over the… He tilts his glass in the mild mah… I think of him when he first got o…
It was a villainous spirit, snub-n… Of breath, thick-taloned and malev… That squatted within him wheresoev… .......And possessed the soul of… There was no peace on pillow or on…