All Poems
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Loving Kind
© Alec Derwent Hope
Loving Kind went by the way,Hapless Loving Kind,Up and down, by night and day,
The Lingam and the Yoni
© Alec Derwent Hope
The Lingham and the YoniAre walking hand in glove,O are you listening, honey?I hear my honey-love.
Imperial Adam
© Alec Derwent Hope
Imperial Adam, naked in the dew,Felt his brown flanks and found the rib was gone.Puzzled he turned and saw where, two and two,The mighty spoor of Jahweh marked the lawn.
The Brides
© Alec Derwent Hope
Down the assembly line they roll and passComplete at last, a miracle of design;Their chromium fenders, the unbreakable glass,The fashionable curve, the air-flow line.
Advise to Young Ladies
© Alec Derwent Hope
A.U.C. 334: about this dateFor a sexual misdemeanour, which she denied,The vestal virgin Postumia was tried.Livy records it among affairs of state.
The Beadle's Annual Address
© Thomas Hood
The Curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea,The ploughman homeward plods his weary way And this is Christmas Eve, and here I be!
The Flâneur
© Oliver Wendell Holmes
I love all sights of earth and skies,From flowers that glow to stars that shine;The comet and the penny show,All curious things, above, below,Hold each in turn my wandering eyes:I claim the Christian Pagan's line,Humani nihil, -- even so, --And is not human life divine?
When soft the western breezes blow,And strolling youths meet sauntering maids,I love to watch the stirring tradesBeneath the Vallombrosa shadesOur much-enduring elms bestow;The vender and his rhetoric's flow,That lambent stream of liquid lies;The bait he dangles from his line,The gudgeon and his gold-washed prize
Why do I feel guilty in the lingerie department at The Bay
© Holbrook Susan
After all, I'm a woman, I'm old enough to look casual in here, I'm in my prime, in fact: why not try on a few things, discuss sizes and wires with the clerk like it's nothing, a bit of a chore even, like shopping for sneakers
Textbook Case:
© Holbrook Susan
1. What was the conflict driving the conversation? Can you state it in one sentence?
Girl Watching
© Holbrook Susan
Wow, lookit her, there's a sunlit hay bale, there's a key lime pie and a million pixels
Before Action
© Hodgson William Noel
By all the glories of the day,And the cool evening's benison:By the last sunset touch that layUpon the hills when day was done:By beauty lavishly outpoured,And blessings carelessly received,By all the days that I have lived,Make me a soldier, Lord
When a Little Farm I Keep
© Hinkson Katharine Tynan
When a little farm I keep,I shall tend my kine and sheep,And my pretty lambs shall foldIn deep pastures starred with gold.
Sheep and Lambs
© Hinkson Katharine Tynan
All in the April evening, April airs were abroad,The sheep with their little lambs Passed me by on the road.
