Your songs are the impossible ruins that keep the hours on turn. Keep awe bare like sound at night. The candle burn. Ice melts and wax. The dirt on your mind. Engines roll in clutter. Clank cool and ...

Bruce Bennett was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1940. He received a BA, MA, and PhD from Harvard University. Of Bennett’s work, X. J. Kennedy writes, “You’ll find balladry, villanelles, ...

the way I will love being afraid, but this is not what I want to say.

(Another version of “A Terre.”) To Siegfried Sassoon My arms have mutinied against me—brutes! My fingers fidget like ten idle brats, My back’s been stiff for hours, damned hours. Death never gives his ...

At loyalty and love’s command, And that was the case to carry it in.

Let some one hold the book, and ask one of the questions. The answers being all numbered, the girl or boy who is questioned chooses a number, and the person who holds the book reads the answer to ...

Florence Earle Coates was born in 1850 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was the author of several books of poetry, including Pro Patria (Philadelphia, 1917), a collection about World War I.