Suddenly I found you had left behind by mistake
Your gold-mounted ivory walking stick.
If there were time, I thought,
You might come back from the station to look for it,
But not because
You had not seen me before going away.

A Fragment Of Simonides

© Henry James Pye

Danaë, with her infant Son Perseus, was exposed in a Vessel to the fury of the waves, by order of her Father Acrisius.

A Song Of Painting: To General Cao Ba

© Du Fu

You, General Cao Ba,

descendant of Cao Cao,

A Woman's Complaint

© Anonymous

I know that deep within your heart of hearts
You hold me shrined apart from common things,
And that my step, my voice, can bring to you
A gladness that no other pleasure brings.

A Little Bird I Am

© Louisa May Alcott

"A little bird I am,
Shut from the fields of air,
And in my cage I sit and sing
To Him who placed me there:
Well pleased a prisoner to be,
Because, my God, it pleases Thee!

Above The Vales

© Madison Julius Cawein

We went by ways of bygone days,
Up mountain heights of story,
Where lost in vague, historic haze,
Tradition, crowned with battle-bays,
Sat 'mid her ruins hoary.

Accolon Of Gaul: Part I

© Madison Julius Cawein

"Will love grow less when dead the roguish Spring,
Who from gay eyes sowed violets whispering;
Peach petals in wild cheeks, wan-wasted thro'
Of withering grief, laid lovely 'neath the dew,
Will love grow less?

A Man Doesn't Have Time In His Life

A man doesn't have time in his life
to have time for everything.
He doesn't have seasons enough to have
a season for every purpose. Ecclesiastes
Was wrong about that.

Absolutely Clear

Don't surrender your loneliness
So quickly.
Let it cut more deep.

An Heroic Epistle of Hudibras To His Lady

I who was once as great as Caesar,

Am now reduc'd to Nebuchadnezzar;

A New Pilgrimage: Sonnet XVII

For lo! the nations, the imperial nations
Of Europe, all imagine a vain thing,
Sitting thus blindly in their generations,
Serving an idol for their God and King.