Those Images
Those Images WHAT if I bade you leave The cavern of the mind? There’s better exercise In the sunlight and wind. I never bade you go […]
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Three Marching Songs Remember all those renowned generations, They left their bodies to fatten the wolves, They left their homesteads to fatten the foxes, Fled to […]
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Three Movements SHAKESPEAREAN fish swam the sea, far away from land; Romantic fish swam in nets coming to the hand; What are all those fish that […]
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Three Songs To The One Burden THE Roaring Tinker if you like, But Mannion is my name, And I beat up the common sort And think […]
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Three Songs To The Same Tune I GRANDFATHER sang it under the gallows: ” Hear, gentlemen, ladies, and all mankind: Money is good and a girl […]
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Three Things `O cruel Death, give three things back,’ Sang a bone upon the shore; `A child found all a child can lack, Whether of pleasure […]
READ MORETo A Child Dancing In The Wind
To A Child Dancing In The Wind DANCE there upon the shore; What need have you to care For wind or water’s roar? And tumble out […]
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To A Friend Whose Work Has Come To Nothing NOW all the truth is out, Be secret and take defeat From any brazen throat, For how […]
READ MORETo A Poet, Who Would Have Me Praise Certain Bad Poets
To A Poet, Who Would Have Me Praise Certain Bad Poets You say, as I have often given tongue In praise of what another’s said or […]
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To A Shade IF you have revisited the town, thin Shade, Whether to look upon your monument (I wonder if the builder has been paid) Or […]
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