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| 5001. | Operation Memory by David Lehman | | We were smoking some of this knockout weed when
Operation Memory was announced. To his separate bed
Each soldier went, counting backwards from a hun... |
| 5002. | April 24 by David Lehman | | Did you know that Evian spelled backwards is naive?
I myself was unaware of this fact until last Tuesday night
when John Ashbery, Marc Cohen, and Eu... |
| 5003. | Shake The Superflux! by David Lehman | | I like walking on streets as black and wet as this one
now, at two in the solemnly musical morning, when everyone else
in this town emptied of Lestr... |
| 5004. | April 26 by David Lehman | | When my father
Said mein Fehler
I thought it meant
"I'm a failure"
which was my error
which is what
mein Fehler means
in German which
is what ... |
| 5005. | September 22 by David Lehman | | It's the day of the ram
and the head of the year
Rosh Ha'Shanah at
services I sat next to
Mel Torme who outshone
all comers with his bar
mitzvah... |
| 5006. | An Elegy on the Death of Montgomery Tappen by Major Henry Livingston, Jr. | | An elegy on the death of MONTGOMERY TAPPEN who dies at Poughkeepsie on the 20th of Nov. 1784 in the ninth year of his age.
The sweetest, gentlest... |
| 5007. | Hiding Place by Major Henry Livingston, Jr. | | Hail sov'reign love that first began,
The scheme to rescue fallen man;
Hail matchless, free, eternal grace,
That gave my soul a Hiding-Place.
Ag... |
| 5008. | Epithalamium: A Marriage Poem by Major Henry Livingston, Jr. | | 'Twas summer, when softly the breezes were blowing,
And Hudson majestic so sweetly was flowing,
The groves rang with music & accents of pleasure
An... |
| 5009. | Apostrophe by Major Henry Livingston, Jr. | | Of RISPAH. (who had been the concubine of King SAUL) when DAVID hanged her children, because their father had done amiss.
From morn to eve from e... |
| 5010. | The Procession by Major Henry Livingston, Jr. | | The legislators pass along
A solemn, self-important throng!
Just raised from the common mass,
They feel themselves another class.
--But let them i... |
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