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When Mercury waved the potent wand - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"

Before usurping Mammon seized the throne - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"

For baser uses rule our iron age - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"

Are these the elements of man's success? - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"

Go where the busy throng all onward press - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"

Thus the world to might becomes the dower - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"

While justice yields before remorseless power - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"

Will still survive to spread the mimic feast - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"

To Midas lent the fatal gift of gold - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"

Stands alone in infamy and crime - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"

Taught Punic faith and mocked the laws - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"

There devils might fear to dwell - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"

In their depths there lurked a deeper hell - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"

A recantation proved the knave no fool - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"

Where thieves abound and murderers appear - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"

Chicanery's brought to succor darkest crime - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"

Rise to behold the satyr in their place - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"

To license lust with all a lecher's rage - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"

In vision sees the future road to fame - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"

Bale-fires burn and cities wrapped in flame - J. Fairfax McLaughlin "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"

As heir expectant of unnumbered spoons - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"

Like Falstaff, seeks repose and dreams of glory - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"

While Bethel's thunder peal'd another story - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"

The donkey stole the lion's skin and brayed - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"

For mercy's reign the cruelty of hell - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"

Homeward borne upon a bloody shield - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"


I'm trusting Project Gutenberg on the authorial attribution. I couldn't find McLaughlin, and all I found about Pasquino was more generically about the name's use as a pseudonym or clearly about someone other than the author of this work (published in 1867 per the title page). The poem itself is clearly satirical, and I lack sufficient knowledge of the time period to get most of the references or even to be sure exactly who's being attacked. Possibly Ulysses Grant? Possibly other people? The poem and book share a title, and the poem is a bit longer than pamphlet length.


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Hens grow teeth in graveyards - Michael Marsh "Gargoyle Poems: Spiders Dance"

Picking black daffodils in the shades of broken stones - Michael Marsh "Gargoyle Poems: Spiders Dance"

Shadows smile and hair grows thick on toads - Michael Marsh "Gargoyle Poems: Spiders Dance"

Old blood dripping from their lips - Michael Marsh "Gargoyle Poems: Spiders Dance"

Spiders waltz hanging shrouds on the dried skeletons - Michael Marsh "Gargoyle Poems: Spiders Dance"

The Ghost of a Gargoyle riding his night colored mare - Michael Marsh "Gargoyle Poems: Spiders Dance"

Like night in a country of worn fields - Michael Marsh "Gargoyle Poems: [It creeps through like night]"

Taking the last daylight out in a lightened dusk - Michael Marsh "Gargoyle Poems: [It creeps through like night]"


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Let the world's whispers call you in - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "barn owl"

Bright blackberries where the light falls - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "bramble"

Unearthly song of an eerie singer - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "curlew"

Where your cry echoes off the hill - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "curlew"

Acre upon acre of tiny suns turned skyward - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "daisy"

Jewels of the meadow, gems of the lawn - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "daisy"

Let new names take and root - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "dandelion"

And spin me, tiny time-machine! - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "dandelion"

Out-flares dynamite and meteorite - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "egret"

Scattering night to left and right - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "egret"

Falling around you as flecks, as grains, as glitter - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "goldfinch"

Setting out across a field of spears - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "gorse"

A field of spears, a lake of pikes, a sky of hawks, a hundred winters - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "gorse"

Getting dealt a thousand scratches by a million splinters - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "gorse"

A path towards its well-defended heart - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "gorse"

Prickly, cussed, hard to parse and tough to handle - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "gorse"

All helter-skelter points and angles - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "gorse"

Empty your bones of heather and moor - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "grey seal"

The birds on the teeth of the reef - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "grey seal"

Deep fall the fathoms beyond your beliefs - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "grey seal"

Takes years to grow and seconds to crash - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "heartwood"

Shares its weather with asphodel and bilberry - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "heather"

As you travel far from crag and river - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "heather"

Eked from iron and wreaked from blue - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "heron"

All clanks and clicks and rusty squeaks - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "heron"

With steady wingbeats boosts his way - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "heron"

A hacksaw through the evening's calm core - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "jackdaw"

In fable and folklore from farmyard to seashore - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "jackdaw"

That sets the stream alight with burn and glitter - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "kingfisher"

With your magical song still tumbling on - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "lark"

Past dying stars and exploding suns - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "lark"

Sing your heart out at all that dark matter - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "lark"

Pick a Fight in an Empty Room - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "magpie"

Interrupt, Interject, Intercept, Intervene! - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "magpie"

Lions of the duckweed, dragons of the Water - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "newt"

Ancient Oak hears with ancient ears - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "oak"

The snow of another winter, the glow of a new sunrise - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "oak"

That utter underwater thunderbolter - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "otter'

Stronger and older than peak and than boulder - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "raven"

Prince of Play, King of Guile - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "raven"

Thrice as fast as any gale - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "raven"

Twice as agile as the wind - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "raven"

Solver of problems, picker of locks - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "raven"

From forest edge to city scarp - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "raven"

A bloom of rust at your vision's edge - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "red fox"

Dark torn from dark - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "red fox"

Bearer of fire and space-invader - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "red fox"

Taker of risks and riddle-maker - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "red fox"

Messenger, trickster, curfew-maker - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "red fox"

Soon the shadows will claim the light - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "silver birch"

Close your eyes and cease your searches - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "silver birch"

Standing guard and keeping vigils - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "silver birch"

Wolves and monsters, worries, witches - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "silver birch"

Street-smart hip-hop of starling song - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "starling"

The gap that opened up between her breaths - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "swallow"

With a stroke the stars renewed their burning - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "swallow"

Shredding the sky in their hooligan gangs - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "swifts"

Hunt a storm-cell's shifting edge - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "swifts"

Hoping for a gift that stays ungiven - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "swifts"

Veteran of sheer drops and near misses - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "thrift"

Growing quietly on through drought and rain - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "thrift"

A lighthouse keeper for every weather - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "thrift"

A seaside saint in her clifftop niches - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "thrift"

Hardship is a limit not a failing - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "thrift"

A glimpse of hope in the tightest of spots - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "thrift"

Weasel whirls through world like wildfire - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "weasel"

Turns field to pyre, sand to grass - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "weasel"

Hot-wires the sun with its speed - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "weasel"

If you whisper when the wind blows - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "willow"

Will listen for a day, a week, a year - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "willow"

Tapping out my Morse-code alphabet - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "woodpecker"

Etches, stitches, switches, glitches - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "wren"

Rapid wren is needle, rapid wren is pin - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "wren"


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Some beacon on a rocky strand - Robert Morris "The Christian's Dream of the Future"

A worshipper of some far world - Robert Morris "The Student's Dream of Fame"

Pale wooer of the solemn night - Robert Morris "The Student's Dream of Fame"

That burns in Fame's high temple - Robert Morris "The Student's Dream of Fame"

May revel with the worm - Robert Morris "The Student's Dream of Fame"


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Whole volumes of rapture - Trebor Mai "Baby" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

Vague memories of angels - Trebor Mai "Baby" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

Cloud shadows in the failing light - Trebor Mai "The Shepherd's Love" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

Though weary storms await me - Trebor Mai "The Shepherd's Love" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

Memory's golden gate - Trebor Mai "The Shepherd's Love" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

With eyes of kindness mark - Trebor Mai "The Shepherd's Love" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

When the sun spreads wings of gold - Trebor Mai "The Shepherd's Love" transl. by Edmund O. Jones


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Rearranging them like a shell game - Joan Murray "Chrysalis"

Why punch holes in our little hopes - Joan Murray "Chrysalis"

On days without a tragedy - Joan Murray "Survivors--Found"

With the wounds of Tuesday - Joan Murray "Survivors--Found"

Filled with stone and grief and ash - Joan Murray "Survivors--Found"


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Starry with delirious heartsease - Jaime Manrique "Mambo" transl. by Edith Grossman

A topaz sky and huge windows - Jaime Manrique "Mambo" transl. by Edith Grossman

My aunts danced the mambo - Jaime Manrique "Mambo" transl. by Edith Grossman

A July night scented with gardenia - Jaime Manrique "The Sky Over My Mother's House" transl. by Edith Grossman

Hiding the essence of the night - Jaime Manrique "The Sky Over My Mother's House" transl. by Edith Grossman

With its deepening onyx shadows - Jaime Manrique "The Sky Over My Mother's House" transl. by Edith Grossman

The golden brilliance of the stars - Jaime Manrique "The Sky Over My Mother's House" transl. by Edith Grossman

Immersed in the solitude or the moment - Jaime Manrique "The Sky Over My Mother's House" transl. by Edith Grossman

The twinkling stars pierce me with nostalgia - Jaime Manrique "The Sky Over My Mother's House" transl. by Edith Grossman

To unfold in frothing ringlets - Jaime Manrique "Swan's Elegy" transl. by Eugene Richie

Rippling iridescent serpents form - Jaime Manrique "Swan's Elegy" transl. by Eugene Richie

The sky is a luminous scarlet arch - Jaime Manrique "Swan's Elegy" transl. by Eugene Richie

The hush of this supple silence - Jaime Manrique "Swan's Elegy" transl. by Eugene Richie

To puncture my heart with its desolate song - Jaime Manrique "Swan's Elegy" transl. by Eugene Richie

Toward the magenta shroud of its fate - Jaime Manrique "Swan's Elegy" transl. by Eugene Richie


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Breaking a stolen mirror - Ted Mathys "Appalachian Trail"

Over the forest of the page - Ted Mathys "Appalachian Trail"

Extortion and the imperfect tense - Ted Mathys "Fool's Gold"

The life I neglected to live - Ted Mathys "Fool's Gold"

And staple the day together - Ted Mathys "Fool's Gold"

A coyote stalking the pinnacles - Ted Mathys "Key to the Kingdom"

Flowers on the conquistador's tongue - Ted Mathys "Key to the Kingdom"

The stem that anchors the thorn - Ted Mathys "Key to the Kingdom"

Initiating its morning thaw - Ted Mathys "Key to the Kingdom"

Bleeds from a hole in his still uncertain future - Ted Mathys "Key to the Kingdom"

Twine in the kingdom's portico - Ted Mathys "Key to the Kingdom"

The exact moment of its breaking - Ted Mathys "Key to the Kingdom"

Each original element like the ship of Theseus - Ted Mathys "Key to the Kingdom"

Standing blind in train tracks - Ted Mathys "Key to the Kingdom"

In a rhizomatic hydra of power - Ted Mathys "Key to the Kingdom"

An image that flickers in the mind - Ted Mathys "Key to the Kingdom"

Into the grammar of its making - Ted Mathys "Key to the Kingdom"

One talon for the olive branch - Ted Mathys "Key to the Kingdom"

That the exceptions have devoured the rule - Ted Mathys "Key to the Kingdom"

The sky is bright with exhortation - Ted Mathys "Key to the Kingdom"

Clambers over monster ferns - Ted Mathys "Key to the Kingdom"

In its toxin of last resort - Ted Mathys "Key to the Kingdom"

Its deep and communal roots - Ted Mathys "Key to the Kingdom"

Wind through the swaying spires of skyscrapers - Ted Mathys "The National Interest"

Mischief in every filibuster of sun - Ted Mathys "The National Interest"

Rigorously arranging emotions by color - Ted Mathys "The National Interest"

An origami frog in a vellum crown - Ted Mathys "The National Interest"


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The thin cleft of villainous pigments - Adrian Matejka "& Later,"

Below blackened crowns - Adrian Matejka "& Later,"

In the habit of tardy remunerations - Adrian Matejka "& Later,"

A hypotenuse of intention - Adrian Matejka "Basketball feat. Galileo & EPMD"

Muggy marshes & thick forests of the mind - Adrian Matejka "Central Avenue Beach"

Sand that sings its memory of glaciers - Adrian Matejka "Central Avenue Beach"

Stars & moon blinking in agitated water - Adrian Matejka "Central Avenue Beach"

Blank faces traced in constellations - Adrian Matejka "Central Avenue Beach"

Folding into the dim fringes of themselves - Adrian Matejka "Central Avenue Beach"

Up in the middle of knotted branches - Adrian Matejka "Central Avenue Beach"

In these perfectly paused trees - Adrian Matejka "Central Avenue Beach"

As uninvited as the sea lamprey - Adrian Matejka "Central Avenue Beach"

Made from my last pennies - Adrian Matejka "I Say the Thing for the First Time"

Already eye level to the flocking blackbirds - Adrian Matejka "I Say the Thing for the First Time"

Snapped into drummed orbits around the Sun - Adrian Matejka "Mail-Order Planets"

In the forgotten astronomies of disco - Adrian Matejka "Map to the Stars"

Sirens snagging the matted air - Adrian Matejka "Mural with HUD Housing & School Bus (1980)"

Every one of the unconcerned streetlamps - Adrian Matejka "Mural with HUD Housing & School Bus (1980)"

During their own windy migrations - Adrian Matejka "October Sonnet"

Like the rest of us gusty apparitions - Adrian Matejka "October Sonnet"

No music from the flowers - Adrian Matejka "17 Kinds of Hungry"

Somewhere in the radius of us - Adrian Matejka "17 Kinds of Hungry"

Just a quick inhale before I tiptoed out - Adrian Matejka "17 Kinds of Hungry"

The wobbly pirouette between song & dust - Adrian Matejka "Soave Sia Il Vento"

Hangs in the air like the start of heartfelt applause - Adrian Matejka "Soave Sia Il Vento"

A suburb of amateur astronauts - Adrian Matejka "Stardate 8809.22"

On a celestial swirl of asphalt - Adrian Matejka "Strange Celestial Roads"

The bleating saxophones that come after - Adrian Matejka "Strange Celestial Roads"

Peeling clouds from the monochromatic sky - Adrian Matejka "Unfunky UFO"


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A path a harp once followed - J. Michael Martinez "Death to Paint Us"

Before losing love against itself - J. Michael Martinez "Death to Paint Us"

A hollowed singularity exists in flowers - J. Michael Martinez "Meister Eckhart's Sermon on Flowers and the Philosopher's Reply"

Like pathos in a dandelion - J. Michael Martinez "Meister Eckhart's Sermon on Flowers and the Philosopher's Reply"

An eddy of fate, degreeless - J. Michael Martinez "Meister Eckhart's Sermon on Flowers and the Philosopher's Reply"

Solitary, the clock circumvents sound - J. Michael Martinez "Meister Eckhart's Sermon on Flowers and the Philosopher's Reply"

A wasp bowing before significance - J. Michael Martinez "Meister Eckhart's Sermon on Flowers and the Philosopher's Reply"

Significance degreeless in a dandelion - J. Michael Martinez "Meister Eckhart's Sermon on Flowers and the Philosopher's Reply"

Locusts circumvent memory - J. Michael Martinez "Meister Eckhart's Sermon on Flowers and the Philosopher's Reply"

In order to depart through fate - J. Michael Martinez "Meister Eckhart's Sermon on Flowers and the Philosopher's Reply"

Singularity exists lightless - J. Michael Martinez "Meister Eckhart's Sermon on Flowers and the Philosopher's Reply"

An eddy of pathos surfacing beyond hearing - J. Michael Martinez "Meister Eckhart's Sermon on Flowers and the Philosopher's Reply"

What lilt signed your step - J. Michael Martinez "Self-Portrait as Letter Addressed to Self"

A cup cracked through with sky - J. Michael Martinez "Self-Portrait as Letter Addressed to Self"

The purchase of its reality - J. Michael Martinez "Self-Portrait as Letter Addressed to Self"

Assume the order of human tongue - J. Michael Martinez "Self-Portrait as Letter Addressed to Self"

Tore & tossed memories into ponds - J. Michael Martinez "Self-Portrait as Letter Addressed to Self"

The fountain of a lower key - J. Michael Martinez "Treaty of Guadalupe"

The virtue behind clarity - J. Michael Martinez "Treaty of Guadalupe"

Where neither dove nor crow has flown - J. Michael Martinez "Treaty of Guadalupe"

The boundary seen before the signature - J. Michael Martinez "Treaty of Guadalupe"

The ruins where the will is free - J. Michael Martinez "Treaty of Guadalupe"

We are no longer interruptions - J. Michael Martinez "[Untitled]"

The cicada's larva reveals narrow secrets - J. Michael Martinez "[Untitled]"

Abandon our too sudden bodies - J. Michael Martinez "[Untitled]"

The end of geometric space - J. Michael Martinez "[Untitled]"

Gifts hoisted to the vanishing point - J. Michael Martinez "[Untitled]"

The well anchoring the water's wish - J. Michael Martinez "Where Love Is Ground to Wheat"

Unlock space with a paper key - J. Michael Martinez "Where Love Is Ground to Wheat"

Where mercy prepares the map - J. Michael Martinez "Where Love Is Ground to Wheat"

The bread of my routines, now absent of you - J. Michael Martinez "Where Love Is Ground to Wheat"

Pulling the space between sins - J. Michael Martinez "White"

The echo calling fossil back to name - J. Michael Martinez "White"

Amaranth ash spread across the light - J. Michael Martinez "White"

As light shaped by trajectory - J. Michael Martinez "Xicano"

A wind settles in the body - J. Michael Martinez "Xicano"

When sounds exchange questions - J. Michael Martinez "Xicano"

When light enters the lung - J. Michael Martinez "Xicano"

A law pinned to a quail's wing - J. Michael Martinez "Xicano"


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