An old man sleeps. The house-fly goes, tasting the salt-lick of his nose.
Poetry Quotes
Breathe deep, the gathering gloom. Watch lights fade from every room. Bedsitter people look back in lament, Another day’s useless energies spent. Impassioned lovers wrestle as one. Lonely man cries for love and has none. New mother picks up and suckles her son. Senior citizens wish they were young. Cold hearted orb that rules the […]
All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream.
But at my back I always hear Time’s wing d chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie deserts of vast eternity.
In the hour of adversity be not without hope, for crystal rain falls from black clouds.
Oh, don’t the days seem lank and long, When all goes right and nothing goes wrong. And isn’t your life extremely flat, With nothing whatever to grumble at!
I loathe the squares and streets, And the faces that one meets.
The time draws near the birth of Christ: The moon is hid; the night is still; The Christmas bells from hill to hill Answer each other in the mist.
The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry.
King David and King Solomon Led merry, merry lives, With many, many lady friends, And many, many wives; But when old age crept over them — With many, many qualms! — King Solomon wrote the Proverbs and King David wrote the Psalms.
