#Americans #Modernism #XXCentury #FreeVerse
The half-stripped trees struck by a wind together, bending all, the leaves flutter drily and refuse to let go
If you had come away with me into another state we had been quiet together. But there the sun coming up out of the nothing beyond the lake…
Even in the time when as yet I had no certain knowledge of her She sprang from the nest, a young… Whose first flight circled the for… I know now how then she showed me
a burst of iris so that come down for breakfast we searched through the rooms for
Go to sleep—though of course you w… to tideless waves thundering slant… strong embankments, rattle and swi… dashed thirty feet high, caught by… scattered and strewn broadcast in…
Why pretend to remember the weather two years back? Why not? Listen close then repeat after others what they have just said and win a reputation for vivacity. Oh feed upon petals o...
Let the snake wait under his weed and the writing be of words, slow and quick, sharp to strike, quiet to wait,
My shoes as I lean unlacing them stand out upon flat worsted flowers under my feet.
O’eh’lee! La’la! Donna! Donna! Blue is the sky of Palermo; Blue is the little bay; And dost thou remember the orange…
This particular thing, whether it be four pinches of four divers white powders cleverly compounded to cure surely, safely, pleasantly a painful twitching of the eyelids or say a pe...
By constantly tormenting them with reminders of the lice in their children’s hair, the School Physician first brought their hatred down on him.
Ecstatic bird songs pound the hollow vastness of the sky with metallic clinkings— beating color up into it at a far edge,—beating it, beating…
When the snow falls the flakes spi… that concerns them most intimately two and two to make a dance the mind dances with itself, taking you by the hand,
This horrible but superb painting the parable of the blind without a red in the composition shows a group of beggars leading
In Brueghel’s great picture, The… the dancers go round, they go roun… around, the squeal and the blare a… tweedle of bagpipes, a bugle and f… tipping their bellies (round as th…