Poems

The Joyful Man Franz the joyful man Franz maintained protuberance from start to finish he never came down the porch measured stars named flowers believed I […]

The Meaning Of The Sea to make everything clear live backwards take walks in the woods tearing hair when you recognize fire in a lamp a […]

Kaiser and Co. Or Hoch der Kaiser [Being Wilhelm der Grosser’s estimate of himself and partner, translated from the original Hoch-deutsch.] Der Kaiser auf der Vaterland […]

Sir Wilfrid Laurier — Diplomatist I live on Canada en Bas — De fines’ lan’ you see — An’ Oncle Sam, a fr’en of mine, He […]

Tour Abroad of Wilfrid the Great By Jean Baptiste Trudeau. W’en Queen Victoria calls her peup’s For mak’ some Jubilee, She sen’ for men from all […]

An Essay on Criticism Part I INTRODUCTION. That it is as great a fault to judge ill as to write ill, and a more dangerous one […]

An Essay on Man in Four Epistles: Epistle 1 To Henry St. John, Lord Bolingbroke Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition, […]

Argus When wise Ulysses, from his native coast Long kept by wars, and long by tempests toss’d, Arrived at last, poor, old, disguised, alone, To all […]

Couplets on Wit I But our Great Turks in wit must reign alone And ill can bear a Brother on the Throne. II Wit is like […]

Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady What beck’ning ghost, along the moon-light shade Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade? ‘Tis she!–but why […]