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The Sculptor John W. May	Releasing from its marble tomb The likeness of a lovely maid Whose grandeur filled the humble...	Rate it (5.00 / 11 votes)
The Vigil MJM Wagner	Stumps of old marble and granite forgotten, Broken, and layered with moss, Cold graven verses, of anguish...	Rate it (5.00 / 6 votes)
Zeus Gets Lazy Too Je Woo Han	man could afford enough marble Who could spur his sedentary...	Rate it (5.00 / 4 votes)
Everyone dies Amy McClure	View a graveyard all marble and stone And know underneath is just skin and bone The people weep The crittters...	Rate it (5.00 / 3 votes)
A GRECIAN TALE John L. Zwerenz	Illustrious marble steps mount a precipice; Overlooking the oceanic canvas, I contemplate the death of tragic...	Rate it (5.00 / 2 votes)
Lincoln Monument: Washington Langston Hughes	Sitting in the marble and the moonlight, Sitting lonely in the...	Rate it (5.00 / 2 votes)
THE FLOWERS BY THE OCEAN John L. Zwerenz	Swaying by the ponds, beyond the alabaster, marble square, Where carriages await to take us tomorrow into the florid countryside, With me as...	Rate it (5.00 / 2 votes)
A Long Distance Flame Cas Arcadia Wilson	Some nights her marble skin Is not so different from the coolness of That long ago summer day Where the coolness...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
A Miracle for Breakfast Elizabeth Bishop	galleries and marble...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
A Vision Splendid Victor James Daley	A shining flower of marble - Magnificently...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Apostasy Charlotte Brontë	I duly bent the knee, And prayed to what in marble smiled Cold, lifeless, mute, on...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Bright, o bright Fedalma George Eliot	Wave-kissed marble roundly dimpling, Far-off music slowly wingèd, Gently rising, gently sinking, Bright, o...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Charred To death Nikhil Parekh	chips of white marble transited to sooty black, rich chunks of upholstery were stripped of Dunlop foam, statues...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Conversation drill with a ghost Christopher Azakor Nwakwesi	He sat on a dusty marble stone I sat the next tomb headstone We spoke in inscrutable...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
I Dreamt I Dwelt In Marble Halls Alfred Bunn	I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls, With vassals and serfs at my side, And...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Memory Adam N Duran	Here marble stone laid its...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Scent of the wood Heather Lydia Thornhill	Spinning like a marble as we're ushered away I wonder where humanity will find its stay Or if it will be...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Scented flowers Scott Edward Smith... S.E.Smith	door & window, an afghan covered couch and a marble table out in front, with a breeze that seemed to travel from between each entrance...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Stars Robert Frost	Minerva's snow-white marble eyes Without the gift of...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
The Babe Terence Cummings-Smith	a marble...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
THE BLESSED AND THE DAMNED John Lars Zwerenz	Then I came upon a marble square, Where a princess roved, with sable hair; (She was dressed in an ancient, lovely...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
THE COURTYARD John Lars Zwerenz (1969 - )	The marble, alabaster enclaves Which cradle the likes of you and me Exalt the fountains of the square...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
The Desert Mathilde Blind	And o'er her violet seas Arose, with marble gods divine, The grace of god-like...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
The Waste Land T. S. Eliot	Glowed on the marble, where the glass Held up by standards wrought with fruited vines From which a golden...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
To His Coy Mistress Andrew Marvell	Thy Beauty shall no more be found; Nor, in thy marble Vault, shall sound My ecchoing Song: then Worms shall try That long preserv'd Virginity: And...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)