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“On 9 June 1904” by W.G. Sebald
. On 9 June 1904 By W.G. Sebald . according to the Julian calendar, 22 June according to our own, Anton Pavlovich and Olga Leonardovna reach the spa at Badenweiler. … Continue reading →
“1984” by George Orwell
. from 1984 By George Orwell One had the feeling that she would have been perfectly content if the June evening had been endless.
“Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known” by William Wordsworth
. Strange Fits of Passion Have I Know By William Wordsworth Strange fits of passion have I known: And I will dare to tell, But in the lover’s ear alone, … Continue reading →
“June” by Frederick Seidel
. June By Frederick Seidel Eternal life begins in June. Her name is fill the name in. My countubernalis, my tent mate, My woman in the tent with me in … Continue reading →
“Ireland With Emily” by John Betjeman
. Ireland With Emily By John Betjeman Bells are booming down the bohreens, White the mist along the grass, Now the Julias, Maeves and Maureens Move between the fields to … Continue reading →
“Mike” by Jane Draycott
. Mike By Jane Draycott Remove the sandals from your feet, for the place where you stand is holy (Joshua 5:15) Surgeon, maybe clockmaker: as a child they’d marvelled at his … Continue reading →
“Sageflowers for Charles Saatchi” by Robert Minhinnick
. Sageflowers for Charles Saatchi By Robert Minhinnick …..Yes it’s late but will Mr Saatchi take the call? It is the moment before nightfall: slick on her mousepad and somnolent … Continue reading →
“Tulips, Lilacs & Roses” by Ricky Garni
. Tulips, Lilacs & Roses By Ricky Garni Tulips, lilacs, and roses are in my hand. Posies, too, for it is June. I tried to make them rhyme with roses, … Continue reading →
“Holiday” by Ricky Garni
. Holiday By Ricky Garni What if all of your problems were clowns made of milk chocolate in tiny cars that drove in circles on a sunny day in June … Continue reading →
“Etudes Second Series” by John Ashbery
. Etudes Second Series By John Ashbery A cloud blew up and like that: OK fun’s fun but we’ve got issues, to wait until tomorrow. At least that’s what I … Continue reading →
“Spring” by Julia Vinograd
. Spring By Julia Vinograd There’s coke in the spoon of June. [From Berkeley Street Cannibals, p. 35.]
“Bottom” by Arthur Rimbaud
. Bottom By Arthur Rimbaud Reality being too thorny for my great personality. –I found myself nevertheless at my lady’s, an enormous gray-blue bird soaring toward the moldings of the … Continue reading →
“What is So Rare As a Day in June” by James Russell Lowell
. What is So Rare As a Day in June By James Russell Lowell AND what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; … Continue reading →
“As Real As Life” by Ruth Stone
. As Real As Life By Ruth Stone Say to the mild melancholy of regret That seizes the Sunday afternoons, I will not let your charm be sullied By those … Continue reading →
“The Duck Hunters” by Charles Bernstein
. The Duck Hunters By Charles Bernstein for Ernesto Livon-Grossman “I remember beautiful rivers but not the boat to take you there.” The shots ring across Plaza de Mayo 16 … Continue reading →
“Breeze” by Tada Chimako
. Breeze By Tada Chimako Like a loquat stone that rools on the tongue smoothing June passes by. When both the piece of ice put on her palm and the sorrow … Continue reading →
“Overlooking the River Stour” by Thomas Hardy
. Overlooking the River Stour By Thomas Hardy The swallows flew in the curves of an eight Above the river-gleam In the wet June’s last beam: Like little crossbows animate … Continue reading →
“October’s Bright Blue Weather” by Helen Hunt Jackson
. October’s Bright Blue Weather By Helen Hunt Jackson O suns and skies and clouds of June, And flowers of June together, Ye cannot rival for one hour October’s bright … Continue reading →
“Don Juan” by George Gordon Byron
. from Don Juan By George Gordon Byron CANTO THE TENTH. IX. But Juan was not meant to die so soon:– We left him in the focus of such glory … Continue reading →
“June, 1828” by Emily Ballou
. June, 1828 By Emily Ballou “My dear Fox, I am dying by inches from not having anybody to talk to about insects.” [From The Darwin Poems.]
“Talking of Michelangelo” by Susan Scutti
. Talking of Michelangelo By Susan Scutti The summer of the High Line began with too much rain in June and a chilly spell between me and two of my … Continue reading →
“Midsummer in Town” by Patricia Beer
. Midsummer in Town By Patricia Beer It is mid-June. In the stair-well Darkness has papered every wall. The air is cool. Clothes feel too thin. The green outside is … Continue reading →
“Blow Jobs” by Fiona Pitt-Kethley
. Blow Jobs By Fiona Pitt-Kethley You’d get more protein from the average egg; the taste’s a tepid, watery nothingness – skimmed milk? weak coffee? puréed cucumber? Fellation’s not a … Continue reading →
“Novel” by Arthur Rimbaud
. Novel By Arthur Rimbaud, translated by Wyatt Mason I. No one’s serious at seventeen. –On beautiful nights when beer and lemonade And loud, blinding cafés are the last thing you … Continue reading →
“Song” by Walter Scott
. Song By Walter Scott “A weary lot is thine, fair maid, ….A weary lot is thine! To pull the thorn thy brow to braid, ….And press the rue for … Continue reading →
“The Argument of His Book” by Robert Herrick
. The Argument of His Book By Robert Herrick I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers, Of April, May, of June, and July flowers. I sing of Maypoles, … Continue reading →
“Dumped in Finsbury Park” by Alison Winch
. Dumped in Finsbury Park By Alison Winch This was our spot. From here London hides in slopes and rumps; a noisy bruise, receiving the city’s blow and letting it … Continue reading →
“April Come She Will” – Simon & Garfunkel
Suggested by Professor Kerr. – April Come She Will Simon & Garfunkel April come she will When streams are ripe and swelled with rain; May, she will stay, Resting in … Continue reading →
“The Nearest Dream Recedes, Unrealized” by Emily Dickinson
. XXIX By Emily Dickinson THE NEAREST dream recedes, unrealized. The heaven we chase Like the June bee Before the school-boy Invites the race; 5 Stoops to an easy clover— Dips—evades—teases—deploys; … Continue reading →
“Written While Drunk in Lake-View Pavilion on the 27th Day of the Sixth Month” by Su Shi
. Written While Drunk in Lake-View Pavilion on the 27th Day of the Sixth Month By Su Shi – The inky clouds fly in, but do not hide the hills, … Continue reading →
“Mrs Dalloway” by Virginia Woolf
. from Mrs Dalloway By Virginia Woolf For having lived in Westminster — how many years now? over twenty,— one feels even in the midst of the traffic, or waking … Continue reading →
“Indian Summer” – Frank Sinatra
. Indian Summer Frank Sinatra – Summer, you old Indian Summer You’re the tear that comes after June-time’s laughter You see so many dreams that don’t come true Dreams we … Continue reading →
“A Night in June” by William Carlos Williams
. A Night in June By William Carlos Williams [More William Carlos Williams on this site.]
“Ulysses” by James Joyce
. from Ch. 17 of Ulysses By James Joyce [Click the image to enlarge.] – – Compile the budget for 16 June 1904. . DEBIT 1 Pork Kidney 1 Copy FREEMAN’S … Continue reading →
“Ellipsing, Elapsing” by Kavita Jindal
. Ellipsing, Elapsing By Kavita Jindal By June the season will be gone if we don’t write it this minute we will never write it even here hiding in the forest … Continue reading →
“Earth’s Immortalities” by Robert Browning
. Confessions By Robert Browning – FAME. See, as the prettiest graves will do in time, Our poet’s wants the freshness of its prime; Spite of the sexton’s browsing horse, … Continue reading →
“My Aunt” by Oliver Wendell Holmes
. My Aunt By Oliver Wendell Holmes My aunt! my dear unmarried aunt! Long years have o’er her flown; Yet still she strains the aching clasp That binds her virgin … Continue reading →
“Months” by Christina Georgina Rossetti
. Months By Christina Rossetti – January cold desolate; February all dripping wet; March wind ranges; April changes; Birds sing in tune To flowers of May, And sunny June Brings … Continue reading →
from “New Finnish Grammar” by Diego Marani
. from New Finnish Grammar By Diego Marani, translated by Judith Landry One fine June day, when the smell of the sea is borne along the city streets, making every … Continue reading →
“The Harvest Shaman” by Angela Eun Ji Koh
. The Harvest Shaman By Angela Eun Ji Koh When my sun still burned east, love you plucked the spruce twig tucked in my hair with two woodchip shop-sticks from … Continue reading →
“The Lesser Children” by Ridgely Torrence
Suggested by Parrish Lantern. The Lesser Children By Ridgely Torrence A Threnody at the Hunting Season IN the middle of August when the southwest wind Blows after sunset through the leisuring … Continue reading →
“The Months: A Pageant” by Christina Georgina Rossetti
. The Months: A Pageant By Christina Georgina Rossetti PERSONIFICATIONS. Boys. Girls. January. February. March. April. July. May. August. June. October. September. December. November. Robin Redbreasts; Lambs and Sheep; Nightingale … Continue reading →
“Forms of Flesh” by Russell C. Leong
. Forms of Flesh by Russell C. Leong It was not a shock. More like a tiny needle in my arm. A jolt. She called my cell phone. She was … Continue reading →
“April Poem” by Daniel Bowman Jr.
– April Poem By Daniel Bowman Jr. Every year about this time I bury my mother’s bones. And in May they spring up as lilacs and in June they float … Continue reading →
“The End of May” by William Morris
Suggested by Parrish Lantern. The End of May By William Morris How the wind howls this morn About the end of May, And drives June on apace To mock the world … Continue reading →
《六月》
. – 《六月》 媽媽賜予我的身體 我在那裡找到了愛情 一九八九年的灰色春天 血色天空瀰漫著哭泣 六月的花兒開在哪裡 六月的人們去了哪裡 生命的鳥群早已飛去 帶著我的愛情飛去 我是美麗受傷的麥子 吐露芬芳站在山岡 又是一個陰沉沉的今天 這片大地承受著荒涼 六月的花兒開在哪裡 六月的人們去了哪裡 生命的鳥群早已飛去 帶著我的愛情飛去 啊 回來吧 回來喲 六月 消失的太陽 啊 回來吧 回來喲 唯一給我溫暖的太陽 –
“A Day in June” by Sylvia Plath
Suggested by Professor Kerr. A Day in June By Sylvia Plath There is one day you can never forget, no matter how hard you try. You always remember when summer comes … Continue reading →
“At The Faucet of June” by William Carlos Williams
Suggested by Randy. I am grateful to David who found me the text. At The Faucet of June By William Carlos Williams The sunlight in a yellow plaque upon the varnished floor is … Continue reading →
“A Summer Wind” by Michael Field
. A Summer Wind By Michael Field O wind, thou hast thy kingdom in the trees, And all thy royalties Sweep through the land to-day. It is … Continue reading →
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