Category: Poetry
STARVED ROCK 1 HYMN TO THE DEAD 5 CREATION 10 THE WORLD'S DESIRE 13 TYRANNOSAURUS: OR BURNING LETTERS 16 LORD BYRON TO DOCTOR POLIDORI 22 THE FOLDING MIRROR 29 A WOMAN OF FORTY 33 WILD BIRDS 34 A LADY 36 THE NEGRO WARD 40 WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE 44 FOR A PLAY 47 CHICAGO 49 THE WEDD...
All things proceed as though the stage were set For acts arranged. I have not learned the part, The day enacts itself. I take the tube, Find daylight at Jamaica, know the place...
2. Part 2The mother, Claire, Claire Claremont, as you know-- Pined for Allegra; would possess the child And take her from the convent--where? No doubt To Shelley's nest, where William Go...
3. Part 3What's the half to keep, could you achieve it? What your treasure if you could retrieve it? Never more shall you again bestow it... Now you have a song if you're a poet.
7. Part 7I see at last I am not one but many minds at once, And many personalities. As a boy I took the color of the leaves or wall Where I was resting, climbing. If in truth I lived thr...
6. Part 6I am old and crippled--sixty in December. And I wonder if it's God that stretches out and hands us Troubles we remember? I'm alone besides, I need the Comforter, All the childre...
4. Part 4He ruminates Upon the pebbles and Demosthenes, And sets his will to be an orator That he may herald truth and save the world. After much toil, re-writing, he delivers A speech h...
1. Part 1STARVED ROCK 1 HYMN TO THE DEAD 5 CREATION 10 THE WORLD'S DESIRE 13 TYRANNOSAURUS: OR BURNING LETTERS 16 LORD BYRON TO DOCTOR POLIDORI 22 THE FOLDING MIRROR 29 A WOMAN OF FORTY...
8. Part 8Yet, my love, Think out what causes judgments, standards, tastes; And why it was that Southey, Wordsworth won The organic national praise and Shelley lost, And Byron lost it--So...