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The Ruined Maid
2023-12-06by Thomas Hardy "O 'Melia, my dear, this does everything crown! Who could have supposed I should meet you in Town? And whence such fair garme...
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The Routine Things Around the House
2023-12-06by Stephen Dunn When Mother died I thought: now I'll have a death poem. That was unforgivable yet I've since forgiven myself as sons are able ...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner(七)
2023-12-06Part VII This hermit good lives in that wood Which slopes down to the sea. How loudly his sweet voice he rears! He loves to talk with mariners That co...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner(六)
2023-12-06Part VI FIRST VOICE 'But tell me, tell me! speak again, Thy soft response renewing—— What makes that ship drive on so fast? What is th...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner(五)
2023-12-06Part V Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole! To Mary-Queen the praise be given! She sent the gentle sleep from heaven, That slid ...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner(四)
2023-12-06Part IV "I fear thee, ancient mariner! I fear thy skinny hand! And thou art long, and lank, and brown, As is the ribbed sea-sand. I fear thee and...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner(三)
2023-12-06Part III There passed a weary time. Each throat Was parched, and glazed each eye. A weary time! A weary time! How glazed each weary eye, When looking ...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner(二)
2023-12-06Part II The sun now rose upon the right: Out of the sea came he, Still hid in mist, and on the left Went down into the sea. And the good south wind st...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner(一)
2023-12-06by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Part I It is an ancient mariner And he stoppeth one of three. ——"By thy long grey beard and glittering eye...
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The Responsibility of Love
2023-12-06by G. E. Patterson Where you are now, the only lights are stars and oil lamps flaring on vine-covered porches. Where you are now, it must be midnight....