Me and Emi D
“Faith” is a fine invention For Gentlemen who see! But Microscopes are prudent In an Emergency! –Emily Dickinson The difference between religion and science, as far as I can see, is summarized above. God might be so cruel to deny…
Category: poems
My life closed twice before its close
My life closed twice before its close – It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me So huge, so hopeless to conceive As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And…
The Bells
I Hear the sledges with the bells – Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle…
Ulysses
It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.…
Ozymandias
I met a traveler from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of…