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Selected Poems by D. H. Lawrence
epub |eng | 2013-03-04 | Author:D. H. Lawrence [Lawrence, D. H.]

Purple Anemones Who gave us flowers? Heaven? The white God? Nonsense! Up out of hell, From Hades; Infernal Dis! Jesus the god of flowers——? Not he. Or sun-bright Apollo, him ...
( Category: British & Irish January 20,2023 )
The Air Year by Caroline Bird
epub |eng | 2020-01-15 | Author:Caroline Bird

We kneel to tie the laces of their unfeasibly tiny shoes. Emotional Reasoning THE first time we entered the empty flat we felt nothing, but after learning of the murders, ...
( Category: British & Irish January 20,2023 )
Letters from the Emily Dickinson Room by Kelli Russell Agodon
epub |eng | 2012-01-15 | Author:Kelli Russell Agodon

PRAYING TO THE PATRON SAINT OF SAVED MARRIAGES She tells him what she cannot name— how anger tastes as it leaves her lips, how easy it is to love someone ...
( Category: Contemporary January 20,2023 )
The Body's Question by Tracy K. Smith
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Tracy K. Smith [Smith, Tracy K.]

A Hunger So Honed Driving home late through town He woke me for a deer in the road, The light smudge of it fragile in the distance, Free in a ...
( Category: Black & African American January 20,2023 )
Blue Laws by Kevin Young
epub |eng | 2016-02-02 | Author:Kevin Young [Young, Kevin]

Grief might be easy if there wasn’t still such beauty—would be far simpler if the silver maple didn’t thrust its leaves into flame, trusting that spring will find it again. ...
( Category: Family January 20,2023 )
Selected Poems by John Milton
epub |eng | 2017-11-08 | Author:John Milton [Milton, John]

BOOK IX No more of talk where God or angel guest With man, as with his friend, familiar used To sit indulgent, and with him partake Rural repast, permitting him ...
( Category: British January 20,2023 )
Collected Later Poems 1988-2000 by R.S. Thomas
epub |eng | 2012-01-15 | Author:R.S. Thomas [R.S. Thomas]

( Category: British & Irish January 20,2023 )
When The Rapture Comes by Max Layton
epub |eng | 2013-03-19 | Author:Max Layton

Last week it was Hitler Begging for mercy They always beg for mercy We all laughed because we knew He was nowhere near being tossed in an oven Six million ...
( Category: Poetry January 20,2023 )
Pale as Real Ladies by Joan Crate
epub |eng | 1991-01-16 | Author:Joan Crate

Encounter While Fishing Joined at the mouth, my reflectionand I ponder the cloudy river,the wrinkled sky.I cast a baited hook into my breast,watch it sink through circles of light,golden strings ...
( Category: Poetry January 20,2023 )
God's Promises for New Believers by Jack Countryman
epub |eng | 2015-03-01 | Author:Jack Countryman

RIGHTEOUSNESS Jesus was the perfect Lamb of God, unblemished by sin and therefore qualified to be the once-for-all sacrifice for humanity’s sins. And our sovereign and gracious God attributes Jesus’ ...
( Category: Inspirational & Religious January 20,2023 )
They Don't Kill You Because They're Hungry, They Kill You Because They're Full by Mark Bibbins
epub |eng | 2016-04-21 | Author:Mark Bibbins

Junior National Treasure Cemetery in case you are promiscuous / or merely forgetful I’ve carved your name on half the trees of this burnt forest / to help you find ...
( Category: Poetry January 20,2023 )
Canadian Poetry 1920 to 1960 by Brian Trehearne
epub |eng | 2010-01-15 | Author:Brian Trehearne [Trehearne, Brian]

WORKING CLASS We have heard no nightingales singing in cool, dim lanes, where evening comes like a procession through the aisles at passion-tide, filling the church with quiet prayer dressed ...
( Category: Poetry January 20,2023 )
Luath Kilmarnock Edition: Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect by John Cairney
epub |eng | 2013-01-15 | Author:John Cairney [Burns, Robert]

TO A MOUSE On turning her up in her Nest, with the Plough, November 1785 WEE, sleeket, cowran, tim’rous beastie, O, what a panic’s in thy breastie! Thou need na ...
( Category: British January 20,2023 )
The War Edition by Danny Ballan
epub |eng | 2018-02-18 | Author:Danny Ballan

Whore I’m a whore, and I bore the secret lust of all humanity— before all their humility at their altars and shrines, at my altar, their gold shines and takes ...
( Category: Poetry January 20,2023 )
Shahid Reads His Own Palm by Reginald Dwayne Betts
epub |eng | 2019-01-15 | Author:Reginald Dwayne Betts

Ode to a Kite & they rename you kite, as if a word can make wings. You are a piece of paper tied to string, singing like a schoolgirl. The ...
( Category: Places January 20,2023 )

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