By E. E. Cummings
"kitty". sixteen,5'1",white,prostitute. ducking always the touch of must and shall, whose slippery body...
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- By Robert FrostNature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour...
- By BedeFore there neidfaerae naenig uuiurthit thoncsnotturra than him tharf sie to ymbhycggannae aer his hiniongae huaet...
- By AnonymousLet the relentless fist be kissed. The salt cannot be cooked; the past is overlooked. Full once they...
- By Joyelle McSweeneyLeaf-keep, un-sibyl; if the soul Has the weight of a swallow, what less Has the weight of a sip? You...
- By Benjamin FranklinPRECEPT I. In Things of moment, on thy self depend, Nor trust too far thy Servant or thy Friend: With...
- By Ezra Pound
The apparition of these faces in the crowd:
Petals on a wet, black bough. - By Robert FrostThe way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of ...
- By Dorothy ParkerRazors pain you; Rivers are damp; Acids stain you; And drugs cause cramp. Guns aren’t lawful; Nooses...
- By Edna St. Vincent Millay"Heaven bless the babe," they said. "What queer books she must have read!" (Love, by whom I was beguiled...
- By Robert West1. THE PLAGIARIST Careless of his debts, he never credits submissions to the magazine he edits. 2. THE...
- By Edna St. Vincent MillayI know what my heart is like Since your love died: It is like a hollow ledge Holding a little pool Left...
- By Stephen DunnThe back roads I’ve traveled late at night, alone, a little drunk, wishing I were someone on whom nothing...
- By Percy Bysshe ShelleyAnd like a dying lady, lean and pale, Who totters forth, wrapp'd in a gauzy veil, Out of her chamber...
- By Thomas BastardMisus and Mopsa hardly could agree, Striving about superiority. The text which says that man and wife are one, Was the chief...
- By Ben JonsonFarewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy; My sin was too much hope of thee, lov'd boy. Seven years...
- By Stephen CraneA man said to the universe: “Sir, I exist!”“However,” replied the universe, “The fact has not created...
- By Robert FrostSome say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those...
- By Hugh MacDiarmidThe rose of all the world is not for me. I want for my part Only the little white rose of Scotland That...
- By Czeslaw MiloszThe history of my stupidity would fill many volumes. Some would be devoted to acting against consciousness...