Poems begining by L
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Late Confession
© Gary Soto
Monsignor, I believed Jesus followed me
With his eyes, and when I slept,
Lines From A Letter To A Young Clerical Friend
© John Greenleaf Whittier
A STRENGTH Thy service cannot tire,
A faith which doubt can never dim,
A heart of love, a lip of fire,
O Freedom's God! be Thou to him!
La Saeta
© Antonio Machado
Dijo una voz popular:
Quién me presta una escalera
para subir al madero
para quitarle los clavos
a Jesús el Nazareno?
Lohengrin
© Emma Lazarus
THE holy bell, untouched by human hands,
Clanged suddenly, and tolled with solemn knell.
Between the massive, blazoned temple-doors,
Thrown wide, to let the summer morning in,
Life
© Paul Laurence Dunbar
Acrust of bread and a corner to sleep in,
A minute to smile and an hour to weep in,
A pint of joy to a peck of trouble,
And never a laugh but the moans come double;
And that is life!
Leto and Niobe
© Sappho
Before they were mothers
Leto and Niobe
had been the most
devoted of friends
Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing
© James Weldon Johnson
Lift ev’ry voice and sing,
Till earth and heaven ring,
LEnvoi: Brussels, Hotel Du Midi
© Dante Gabriel Rossetti
IT'S copied out at last: very poor stuff
Writ in the cold, with pauses of the cramp.
Literary
© Kenneth Fearing
I sing of simple people and the hardier virtues, by Associated Stuffed Shirts & Company, Incorporated, 358 West 42d Street, New York, brochure enclosed
of Christ on the Cross, by a visitor to Calvary, first class
art deals with eternal, not current verities, revised from last week's Sunday supplement
guess what we mean, in The Literary System, and a thousand noble answers to a thousand empty questions, by a patriot who needs the dough.
Limitations Of Genius
© James Whitcomb Riley
The audience entire seemed pleased--indeed
_Extremely_ pleased. And little Maymie, freed
From her task of instructing, ran to show
Her wondrous colored picture to and fro
Among the company.
Living in the Body
© Joyce Sutphen
Body is something you need in order to stay
on this planet and you only get one.
Last Wish
© Théophile Gautier
A long time have I known you... Why,
Full eighteen years, I must confess!
La Bizarra Capital De Mi Estado
© Ramon Lopez Velarde
He de encomiar en verso sincerista
La capital bizarra
De mi Estado, que es un
Cielo cruel y una tierra colorada
Lines Written Near San Francisco
© Louis Simpson
I wake and feel the city trembling.
Yes, there is something unsettled in the air
And the earth is uncertain.
Lydia H. Sigourney
© John Greenleaf Whittier
She sang alone, ere womanhood had known
The gift of song which fills the air to-day
Tender and sweet, a music all her own
May fitly linger where she knelt to pray.
LXXXIII: Spring
© Alfred Tennyson
Dip down upon the northern shore,
O sweet new-year, delaying long;
Thou doest expectant Nature wrong,
Delaying long, delay no more.
