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| 3821. | Contemplation Of The Sword by Robinson Jeffers | | Reason will not decide at last; the sword will decide.
The sword: an obsolete instrument of bronze or steel,
formerly used to kill men, but... |
| 3822. | The Day Is A Poem (September 19, 1939) by Robinson Jeffers | | This morning Hitler spoke in Danzig, we hear his voice.
A man of genius: that is, of amazing
Ability, courage, devotion, cored on a sick child's sou... |
| 3823. | The Silent Shepherds by Robinson Jeffers | | What's the best life for a man?
--Never to have been born, sings the choros, and the next best
Is to die young. I saw the Sybil at Cumae
Hung in he... |
| 3824. | Sign-Post by Robinson Jeffers | | Civilized, crying: how to be human again; this will tell you how.
Turn outward, love things, not men, turn right away from humanity,
Let that doll l... |
| 3825. | The Bird With The Dark Plumes by Robinson Jeffers | | The bird with the dark plumes in my blood,
That never for one moment however I patched my truces
Consented to make peace with the people,
It is pit... |
| 3826. | The Star-Apple Kingdom by Derek Walcott | | There were still shards of an ancient pastoral
in those shires of the island where the cattle drank
their pools of shadow from an older sky,
sur... |
| 3827. | Forest Of Europe by Derek Walcott | | The last leaves fell like notes from a piano
and left their ovals echoing in the ear;
with gawky music stands, the winter forest
looks like an empt... |
| 3828. | Pentecost by Derek Walcott | | Better a jungle in the head
than rootless concrete.
Better to stand bewildered
by the fireflies' crooked street;
winter lamps do not show
where... |
| 3829. | Egypt, Tobago by Derek Walcott | | There is a shattered palm
on this fierce shore,
its plumes the rusting helm-
et of a dead warrior.
Numb Antony, in the torpor
stretching her in... |
| 3830. | Parang by Derek Walcott | | Man, I suck me tooth when I hear
How dem croptime fiddlers lie,
And de wailing, kiss-me-arse flutes
That bring water to me eye!
Oh, when I t'ink h... |
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