Saturday, December 04, 2010

867. The Great American Poem - Billy Collins

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. If this were a novel, it would begin with a character, a man alone on a southbound train or a young girl on a swing by a farmhouse. And as...
Wednesday, November 24, 2010

866. Coda - Jason Shinder

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. And now I know what most deeply connects us after that summer so many years ago, and it isn’t poetry, although it is poetry, and it isn’t ...
Thursday, November 18, 2010

865. Hineni - Stanley F. Chyet

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. here I am again without much to offer by way of moral worth I’ve a rich collection of defeats maybe that’s to your liking? I don’t know, d...
Friday, November 12, 2010

864. Candles - C. P. Cavafy

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Translated from the Greek by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard Days to come stand in front of us like a row of lighted candles— golden, warm...
Friday, November 05, 2010

863. The Laboratory - Wislawa Szymborska

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Translated by Walter Whipple Did it all happen in the laboratory? Beneath one lamp by day and billions by night? Are we a trial generation? ...
Friday, October 22, 2010

862. The City - C. P. Cavafy

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Translated from the Greek by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard   You said: “I’ll go to another country, go to another shore,  find another c...
Friday, October 08, 2010

861. Charles the great - Henri Kadusco

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. Charles the great has come at last, Come at last to stay. He knows not where he’s going, though He thinks he knows the way. He thinks he k...
Sunday, September 05, 2010

860. Black Maps - Mark Strand

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. Not the attendance of stones, nor the applauding wind, shall let you know you have arrived, not the sea that celebrates only depart...
Thursday, July 22, 2010

859. At Great Pond - Mary Oliver

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 At Great Pond 
the sun, rising,
 scrapes his orange breast 
on the thick pines,
 and down tumble 
a few orange feathers into
 the dark w...

858. Love at First Sight (1)- Wislawa Szymborska

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Translated from the Polish by Walter Whipple Both are convinced that a sudden surge of emotion bound them together. Beautiful is such a cert...

857. A Man Adrift on a Slim Spar - Stephen Crane

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A man adrift on a slim spar A horizon smaller than the rim of a bottle Tented waves rearing lashy dark points The near whine of froth in cir...
Friday, June 11, 2010

856. Music Is in the Piano Only When It Is Played - Jack Gilbert

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. We are not one with this world. We are not the complexity our body is, nor the summer air idling in the big maple without purpose. We are ...
Saturday, May 08, 2010

855. Daisies - Mary Oliver

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. It is possible, I suppose, that sometime we will learn everything there is to learn: what the world is, for example, and what I means. I ...
Saturday, May 01, 2010

854. The Disquieting Muses - Mark Strand

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. Boredom sets in first, and then despair. One tries to brush it off. It only grows. Something about the silence of the square. Something is...
Wednesday, April 14, 2010

853. Alexandrian Kings - C. P. Cavafy

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C. P. Cavafy - Alexandrian Kings (1) Translated from the Greek by Theoharis C. Theoharis The Alexandrians flocked to view the children of Cl...
Friday, March 26, 2010

852. Insomnia - Linda Pastan

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. I remember when by body was a friend. when sleep like a good dog came when summoned. The door to the future had not started to shut, and l...
Friday, March 12, 2010

851. Sunrise - Mary Oliver

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. You can die for it - an idea, or the world. People have done so, brilliantly, letting their small bodies be bound to the stake, creating ...
Monday, March 01, 2010

850. A Meditation On John Constable - Charles Tomlinson

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"Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature. why, then, may not landscape painting be conside...
Friday, February 19, 2010

849. A Primer of the Daily Round - Howard Nemerov

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A peels an apple, while B kneels to God, C telephones to D, who has a hand On E's knee, F coughs, G turns up the sod For H's grave, ...
Monday, February 08, 2010

848. Of Simplicity - James Kavanaugh

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. Simplicity calls After all the schemings done, Now that I've paid homage To damn near everyone. God should be satisfied, P...