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Sestina: Altaforte by Ezra Pound
LOQUITUR: En Bertans de Born. Dante Alighieri put this man in hell
for that he was a stirrer up of..
Salutation by Ezra Pound
O generation of the thoroughly smug
and thoroughly uncomfortable,
I have seen fishermen picnicking..
Song of the Bowmen of Shu by Ezra Pound
Here we are, picking the first fern-shoots
And saying: When shall we get back to our country?
He..
Song in the Manner of Housman by Ezra Pound
O woe, woe,
People are born and die,
We also shall be dead pretty soon
Therefore let us act as..
Statement of Being by Ezra Pound
I am a grave poetic hen
That lays poetic eggs
And to enhance my temperament
A little quiet begs.
..
Silet by Ezra Pound
When I behold how black, immortal ink
Drips from my deathless pen - ah, well-away!
Why should we s..
Sub Mare by Ezra Pound
It is, and is not, I am sane enough,
Since you have come this place has hovered round me,
This fab..
Sonnet of the Sweet Complaint by Federico Garcia Lorca
Never let me lose the marvel
of your statue-like eyes, or the accent
the solitary rose of your bre..
Soneto by Federico Garcia Lorca
Largo espectro de plata conmovida
el viento de la noche suspirando,
abri? con mano gris mi vieja h..
Serenata by Federico Garcia Lorca
The night soaks itself
along the shore of the river
and in Lolita’s breasts
the branches die of l..
Saturday Paseo: Adelina by Federico Garcia Lorca
Oranges
do not grow in the sea
neither is there love in Sevilla.
You in Dark and the I the sun th..
Saturday At The Canal by Gary Soto
I was hoping to be happy by seventeen.
School was a sharp check mark in the roll book,
An obnoxiou..
Smoke by Henry David Thoreau
Light-winged Smoke, Icarian bird,
Melting thy pinions in thy upward flight,
Lark without song, and..
Sic Vita by Henry David Thoreau
I am a parcel of vain strivings tied
By a chance bond together,
Dangling this way and that, thei..
Shadows Before by Henry Lawson
"Like clouds o’er the South are the nations who reign
On fair islands that we would command;
But..
Since Then by Henry Lawson
I met Jack Ellis in town to-day --
Jack Ellis -- my old mate, Jack --
Ten years ago, from the Ca..
Send Round the Hat by Henry Lawson
Now this is the creed from the Book of the Bush –
Should be simple and plain to a dunce:
"If a m..
Scots of the Riverina by Henry Lawson
The boy cleared out to the city from his home at harvest time --
They were Scots of the Riverina,..
Said Grenfell to my Spirit by Henry Lawson
Said Grenfell to my spirit, "You’ve been writing very free
Of the charms of other places, and you..
Sez You by Henry Lawson
When the heavy sand is yielding backward from your blistered feet,
And across the distant timber y..
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