epub |eng | | Author:Marilyn Nelson [Nelson, Marilyn]

* * * Sonnet Notes I. This sonnet alludes to act iv, scene v of Shakespeare's Hamlet, when Ophelia, driven mad by grief for her murdered father, says, "There's rosemary, ...

epub |eng | 2013-10-21 | Author:Billy Collins [Collins, Billy]

The only thing moving besides us (and we had since stopped under an awning) was a squirrel who was darting this way and that as if he were having second ...

epub |eng | 1995-04-17 | Author:William Carlos Williams [Williams, William Carlos]

Scattered, the fierceness of knowledge comes flocking down again— souvenir of childhood, the skull of the white stone . There was Margaret of the big breasts and daring eyes who ...

epub |eng | | Author:Cobham, Catherine, Darwish, Mahmoud

Snow The white air thickens, slows down and spreads like combed cotton in space. When it comes into contact with the body of night it lights it up on all ...

azw3 |eng | 2012-04-02 | Author:LaFevers, Robin [LaFevers, Robin]

The newly adjourned courtiers erupt in excited, nervous voices. Crunard motions for the guards and they throw open the large doors at the back of the chamber so the nobles ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-08-02 | Author:Billy Collins [Collins, Billy]

three Tension Never use the word suddenly just to create tension. —Writing Fiction Suddenly, you were planting some yellow petunias outside in the garden, and suddenly I was in the ...

epub |eng | 2011-11-18 | Author:Francis Ponge

FORMATION OF A POETIC ABSCESS August 22, 1940 Winter: Temple of caducity. Eroded by lichen, the low branches have fallen. And no encumbrance midway up. No snaking of vines or ...

epub |eng | 2011-11-21 | Author:Tadeusz Rozewicz

how do you know they’re black maybe they’re square or red or golden that’s it! golden thoughts golden flakes in a dead sea of tired language those from Gogol for ...

epub |eng | 2013-11-04 | Author:Anne Michaels [Michaels, Anne]

Most of the individuals portrayed in these pages are accompanied by their own words. Sometimes an individual’s words are brought together from more than one source. On occasion, the words ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2003-01-01 | Author:Mary Jo Salter [Salter, Mary Jo]

So I go back to my book. Mine is about the disastrous history of navigation, before the solution of the problem of longitude. More often, he’s reading about science, and ...

epub |eng | 2013-10-07 | Author:C. D. Wright & William Carlos Williams [Wright, C. D. & Williams, William Carlos]

Not I beds, beds, beds elevators, fruit, night-tables breasts to see, white and blue — to hold in the hand, to nozzle It is not onion soup Your sobs soaked ...

epub |eng | | Author:bell hooks

snow-covered earth such silence still divine presence echoes immortal migrants all life sustained darkness comes suffering touches us again and again there is pain there in the midst of such ...

epub |eng | 2010-10-21 | Author:Snorri Sturluson

SKALDSKAPARMAL (POETIC DICTION) The following translation from Skaldskaparmal is divided into two sections. The first, Mythic and Legendary Tales from Skaldskaparmal, contains the major prose stories about the gods and ...

epub |eng | 2013-05-01 | Author:Adrian Matejka

HOSTILITIES Belle & I returned after a fine supper of roasted quail in the Crystal Dining Room. Hattie was waiting in the mauve hallway right outside our rooms. She was ...

mobi, epub | | 2000-07-31 | Author:John Milton

Book 7 Descend from Heav'n URANIA, by that name If rightly thou art call'd, whose Voice divine Following, above th' OLYMPIAN Hill I soare, Above the flight of PEGASEAN wing. ...