Be to her, Persephone,All the things I might not be;Take her head upon your knee.She that was so proud and wild,Flippant, arrogant and free,She that had no need of me,Is…
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That you are fair or wise is vain,Or strong, or rich, or generous;You must have also the untaught strainThat sheds beauty on the rose.There is a melody born of melody,Which…
He clasps the crag with crooked hands;Close to the sun in lonely lands,Ring’d with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;He watches from his mountain walls,And…
A Child’s Story Hamelin Town’s in Brunswick,By famous Hanover city;The river Weser, deep and wide,Washes its wall on the southern side;A pleasanter spot you never spied;But, when begins my ditty,Almost…
Only in sleep I see their faces, Children I played with when I was a child,Louise comes back with her brown hair braided, Annie with ringlets warm and wild. Only…
I sigh at day-dawn, and I sighWhen the dull day is passing by.I sigh at evening, and againI sigh when night brings sleep to men.Oh! it were far better to dieThan…
Cierra los ojos y a oscuras pierdetebajo el follaje rojo de tus parpados. Hundete en esas espiralesdel sonido que zumba y caey suena alla, remoto,hacia el sitio del timpano,como una…
My land is bare of chattering folk; The clouds are low along the ridges,And sweet’s the air with curly smoke;;From all my burning bridges.
I do not see the hills around, Nor mark the tints the copses wear;I do not note the grassy groundAnd constellated daisies there. I hear not the contralto noteOf cuckoos…
I’ll tell thee everything I can;There’s little to relate.I saw an aged aged man,A-sitting on a gate.“Who are you, aged man?” I said,“And how is it you live?”And his answer…
I keep falling in lovewith my mother,I dont want to hurt her-Of all people to hurt. Every time I see hershe’s grown olderBut her uniform alwaysamazes meFor its Dutch simplicityAnd…
IIs the total black, being spokenFrom the earth’s inside.There are many kinds of open.How a diamond comes into a knot of flameHow a sound comes into a word, colouredBy who…
Father, part of his double interestUnto thy kingdom, thy Son gives to me,His jointure in the knotty TrinityHe keeps, and gives to me his death’s conquest.This Lamb, whose death with…
FIRST Be it a girl, or one of the boys,It is scarlet all over its avoirdupois,It is red, it is boiled; could the obstetricianHave possibly been a lobstertrician?His degrees and…
The vivid grass with visible delight Springing triumphant from the pregnant earth, The butterflies, and sparrows in brief flight Chirping and dancing for the season’s birth, The dandelions and rare…
All right,Go ahead!What’s in a name?I guess I’ll be locked intoAs much as I’m locked out of!
The sun, the moon, the stars, the seas, the hills and the plains,-Are not these, O Soul, the Vision of Him who reigns? Is not the Vision He, tho’ He…
The mountain and the squirrelHad a quarrel,And the former called the latter, “little ****”:Bun replied,You are doubtless very big,But all sorts of things and weatherMust be taken in togetherTo make…
The year ’s at the spring,And day ’s at the morn;Morning ’s at seven;The hill-side ’s dew-pearl’d;The lark ’s on the wing;The snail ’s on the thorn;*** ’s in His…
The city’s all a-shining Beneath a fickle sun,A *** young wind’s a-blowing, The little shower is done.But the rain-drops still are clinging And falling one by one—Oh it’s Paris, it’s…
There was a rose that faded young;I saw its shattered beauty hung Upon a broken stem.I heard them say, “What need to careWith roses budding everywhere?” I did not answer them. There…
The Roman Road runs straight and bare As the pale parting-line in hairAcross the heath. And thoughtful menContrast its days of Now and Then,And delve, and measure, and compare; Visioning…
(1674.) I have desired, and I have been desired; But now the days are over of desire, Now dust and dying embers mock my fire;Where is the hire for which my life…
