Out of the deep and the dark. A sparkling mystery, a shape Something perfect. Comes like the stir of the day. One whose breath is an odor. Whose eyes show the road to stars. The breeze in his face. The glory of heaven on his back. He steps like a vision hung in air. Diffusing […]
Whenever Richard Cory went down town. We people on the pavement looked at him. He was a gentleman from sole to crown. Clean favored, and imperially slim. And he was always quietly arrayed. And he was always human when he talked. But still he fluttered pulses when he said. Good-morning, and he glittered when he […]
His Grace! impossible! what dead. Of old age too, and in his bed. And could that mighty warrior fall. And so inglorious, after all. Well, since he’s gone, no matter how. The last loud trump must wake him now. And, trust me, as the noise grows stronger. He’d wish to sleep a little longer. And could […]
How great unto the living seem the dead. How sacred, solemn how heroic grown. How vast and vague, as they obscurely tread. The shadowy confines of the dim unknown. For they have met the monster that we dread. Have learned the secret not to mortal shown. E’en as gigantic shadows on the wall. The spirit […]
I have not lingered in European monasteries. and discovered among the tall grasses tombs of knights. who fell as beautifully as their ballads tell. I have not parted the grasses. or purposefully left them thatched. I have not released my mind to wander and wait. in those great distances. between the snowy mountains and the […]
