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| 8601. | The Ships of Saint John by Bliss Carman | | Where are the ships I used to know,
That came to port on the Fundy tide
Half a century ago,
In beauty and stately pride?
In they would come past t... |
| 8602. | The Ships of Yule by Bliss Carman | | When I was just a little boy,
Before I went to school,
I had a fleet of forty sail
I called the Ships of Yule;
Of every rig, from rakish brig
And... |
| 8603. | Poet's Household by Carolyn Kizer | | 1
The stout poet tiptoes
On the lawn. Surprisingly limber
In his thick sweater
Like a middle-age burglar.
Is the young robin injured?
2
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| 8604. | Mud Soup by Carolyn Kizer | | 1.
Had the ham bone, had the lentils,
Got to meat store for the salt pork,
Got to grocery for the celery.
Had the onions, had the garlic,
Borro... |
| 8605. | Parent's Pantoum by Carolyn Kizer | | for Maxine Kumin
Where did these enormous children come from,
More ladylike than we have ever been?
Some of ours look older than we feel.
How di... |
| 8606. | Deliciae Sapientiae de Amore by Coventry Patmore | | Love, light for me
Thy ruddiest blazing torch,
That I, albeit a beggar by the Porch
Of the glad Palace of Virginity,
May gaze within,k and sing th... |
| 8607. | Departure by Coventry Patmore | | It was not like your great and gracious ways!
Do you, that have naught other to lament,
Never, my Love, repent
Of how, that July afternoon,
Yo... |
| 8608. | Faint Yet Pursuing by Coventry Patmore | | Heroic Good, target for which the young
Dream in their dreams that every bow is strung,
And, missing, sigh
Unfruitful, or as disbelievers die,
The... |
| 8609. | The Spirit's Depths by Coventry Patmore | | Not in the crisis of events
Of compass'd hopes, or fears fulfill'd,
Or acts of gravest consequence,
Are life's delight and depth reveal'd.
The day... |
| 8610. | The Open Sea by Dorothea MacKellar | | From my window I can see,
Where the sandhills dip,
One far glimpse of open sea.
Just a slender slip
Curving like a crescent moon—
Yet a gr... |
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