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Aztec Mask by Carl Sandburg
I wanted a man’s face looking into the jaws and throat
of life
With something proud on his face, s..
Autumn Movement by Carl Sandburg
I CRIED over beautiful things knowing no beautiful thing lasts.
The field of cornflower yellow is..
Accomplished Facts by Carl Sandburg
EVERY year Emily Dickinson sent one friend
the first arbutus bud in her garden.
In a last will a..
A Sphinx by Carl Sandburg
Close-mouthed you sat five thousand years and never
let out a whisper.
Processions came by, marche..
A Fence by Carl Sandburg
NOW the stone house on the lake front is finished and the
workmen are beginning the fence.
The pal..
Alley Rats by Carl Sandburg
THEY were calling certain styles of whiskers by the name of “lilacs.”
And another manner of beard a..
Aftermath by Sylvia Plath
Compelled by calamity’s magnet
They loiter and stare as if the house
Burnt-out were theirs, or as..
April 18 by Sylvia Plath
the slime of all my yesterdays
rots in the hollow of my skull
and if my stomach would contract
..
A Lesson In Vengeance by Sylvia Plath
In the dour ages
Of drafty cells and draftier castles,
Of dragons breathing without the frame of f..
A Better Resurrection by Sylvia Plath
I have no wit, I have no words, no tears;
My heart within me like a stone
Is numbed too much for h..
Ariel by Sylvia Plath
Stasis in darkness.
Then the substanceless blue
Pour of tor and distances.
God’s lioness,
How..
A Birthday Present by Sylvia Plath
What is this, behind this veil, is it ugly, is it beautiful?
It is shimmering, has it breasts, has..
A Life by Sylvia Plath
Touch it: it won’t shrink like an eyeball,
This egg-shaped bailiwick, clear as a tear.
Here’s yest..
A Hundred Collars by Robert Frost
Lancaster bore him--such a little town,
Such a great man. It doesn’t see him often
Of late years..
A Brook in the City by Robert Frost
The firm house lingers, though averse to square
With the new city street it has to wear A number in..
A Boundless Moment by Robert Frost
He halted in the wind, and--what was that
Far in the maples, pale, but not a ghost?
He stood there..
An Encounter by Robert Frost
ONCE on the kind of day called “weather breeder,”
When the heat slowly hazes and the sun
By its ow..
An Empty Threat by Robert Frost
I stay;
But it isn’t as if
There wasn’t always Hudson’s Bay
And the fur trade,
A small skiff
An..
A Star in a Stoneboat by Robert Frost
For Lincoln MacVeagh
Never tell me that not one star of all
That slip from heaven at night and s..
A Hillside Thaw by Robert Frost
To think to know the country and now know
The hillside on the day the sun lets go
Ten million silv..
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