Alphabetical Poem First Lines

[Logos]

Post the first line of a poem that starts with the next letter of the alphabet :)

"A neighbor of mine in the village" . . . . Robert Frost's "A Girl's Garden" (http://www.online-literature.com/frost/985/)

[firefangled]

"Being apart and lonely is like rain."....Rainer Maria Rilke Loneliness (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?p=454034#post454034)

[TheFifthElement]

Call the roller of big cigars - Emperor of Ice Cream (Wallace Stevens)

[CdnReader]

"Death sets a thing significant" ..... Emily Dickinson, Memorials (http://www.online-literature.com/view.php/poems-series-2/139?term=death%20sets%20a%20thing)

[Niamh]

Edain came out of Midhirs hill, and Lay- The Harp of Aengus W.B.Yeats

[Logos]

Fast-anchor'd eternal O love! O woman I love!--Walt Whitman, "Fast Anchor'd (http://www.online-literature.com/walt-whitman/leaves-of-grass/78/)"

[CdnReader]

"Gold is for the mistress—silver for the maid—" ..... Rudyard Kipling, Cold Iron (http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/verse/p2/coldiron.html)

[firefangled]

"He mispronounces you,".....Jane Mead - Substance Abuse Trial (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?p=454828#post454828)

[CdnReader]

"I saw a little elephant standing in my garden" .....Spike Milligan - Jumbo Jet (http://oldpoetry.com/opoem/7931-Spike-Milligan-Jumbo-Jet)
( :) )

[Logos]

. Joyful lady, sing!--Thomas Hardy, To A Lady (http://www.online-literature.com/hardy/late-lyrics/24/)

[CdnReader]

"Know then thyself, presume not God to scan" ..... Alexander Pope - The Riddle of the World (http://www.davidpbrown.co.uk/poetry/alexander-pope.html)

[firefangled]

"Like a bird on the wire".....Leonard Cohen Bird on a Wire (http://www.webheights.net/essential/bird.htm)

[TheFifthElement]

My dog's assumed my alter ego - The Strange Case (Michael Ondaatje)

[firefangled]

My dog's assumed my alter ego - The Strange Case (Michael Ondaatje)


Just had to say, I just love Michael Ondaatje. Is this in the Cinnamon Peeler?

[ampoule]

No one expected all three of them to sit there...See No Evil by Billy Collins

[CdnReader]

"Of asphodel, that greeny flower," ..... William Carlos Williams - from "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower" (http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/from-asphodel-that-greeny-flower/)

[TheFifthElement]

Just had to say, I just love Michael Ondaatje. Is this in the Cinnamon Peeler?

I'll confess, I have no idea! It is in my very excellent anthology by Bloodaxe called 'Staying Alive'.

Pick a card, any card - Tyranny of Choice (Elizabeth Garrett) (ace poem!)

[firefangled]

Pick a card, any card - Tyranny of Choice (Elizabeth Garrett) (ace poem!)

I could only think of Lionel Richie for Q.

Stuck on Q
I've got this feeling down deep in my soul that I just can't choose
Guess it's back to A...

May we use titles and/or first lines for Q and X? Being presumtuous, he writes:

"Questions Are Remarks".....Title by Wallace Stevens: Questions Are Remarks (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?p=456399#post456399): "In the weed of summer comes this green sprout why."

[CdnReader]

^^^ That works for me! ;) (Z might be interesting too)

"Russia and America circle each other;" ..... Ted Hughes, A Woman Unconscious (http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-woman-unconscious/)

[TheFifthElement]

"Smudges of moon in the morning -" Preparation for the big emptiness (Kapka Kassabova)

[firefangled]

"This chair was once a student of Euclid."...Charles Simic...The Chair (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=26547)

[CdnReader]

"Under my bowels, yellow with smoke," ..... Anne Sexton, The Other (http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/annesexton/7780)

[Niamh]

Trying to find a V. Managed to find a Z though!:p

[firefangled]

"Very bitter were the sorrows..." Randall Jarrell, Lament of the Children of Israel in Rome (from the Complete Poems, Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

It's a long one and I couldn't find it on line and I am a horrible typist. I would die typing this, but it is very good.

[CdnReader]

"Wait till the Majesty of Death" ..... Emily Dickinson, Wait till the Majesty of Death (http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/emilydickinson/10123)

[firefangled]

"X had the funds, the friends, the plan."...James Merrill, Snow Jobs (Alfred Knopf, 2001) It is political, having mention of recent scandals.












Don't wanna be a bum, you better chew gum. The pump don't work 'cause the vandals took the handle. - Dylan

[TheFifthElement]

you think about the time in Malibu - late, late poem (Charles Bukowki - who else?!)

[Niamh]

"Zealously my muse doth salute all thee"-First line of one of John Donnes Verse letters to Mr.R.W;)

[CdnReader]

"A young spring-tender girl" ...... Spike Milligan, Mirror Mirror (http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/mirror-mirror/)

[Niamh]

"But now secure the painted vessel glides,"-Canto II Alexander Pope

[Logos]

"Did The Harebell Loose Her Girdle..." (http://www.online-literature.com/dickinson/832/) ~ Emily Dickinson

[CdnReader]

Hey Logos! What happened to "C" ??? :lol:

"Calm is all nature as a resting wheel." ..... William Wordsworth, Calm Is All Nature as a Resting Wheel (http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/calm-is-all-nature-as-a-resting-wheel/)

[Logos]

oh geeze! grumble grumble multitasking grumble... :p

"Earth, Ocean, Air, beloved brotherhood!"

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Alastor: or, The Spirit of Solitude (http://www.online-literature.com/shelley_percy/2778/)"

[CdnReader]

"Fleas interest me so much" ..... Pablo Neruda, Fleas Interest Me So Much (http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/fleas-interest-me-so-much/)

[MarileeRixon]

"Galahad....soldier that perished...ages ago," - Galahad, Knight Who Perished, by Vachel Lindsay

[CdnReader]

"Hold hard, these ancient minutes in the cuckoo's month" .... Dylan Thomas

[firefangled]

"Into the infinite white,".....Federico Garcia Lorca, Juan Ramon Jimenez (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?p=463998#post463998)

[CdnReader]

"Just once I knew what life was for" .... Anne Sexton, Just Once (http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/annesexton/4558)

[firefangled]

"Kind Sir: This is an old game" - Anne Sexton, Kind Sir: These Woods (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?p=466743#post466743)

[TheFifthElement]

"Look children, the wood is full of tigers" - Think Before you Shoot (Fleur Adcock)

[barbara0207]

Milton! Thou shouldst be living at this hour: - Milton by William Wordsworth

[Niamh]

Not a stir, not a stir in the land-The Ghost land by Patrick Kavanagh

[Logos]

O all the little rivers that run to Hudson's Bay,--from Bliss Carman's (1861-1929) "Rivers of Canada" :)

[MarileeRixon]

"Parched are the plains and bare" - A B "Banjo" Paterson, General Drought and General Rain, 1902

[tailor STATELY]

"Queen and huntress, chaste and fair,"... Hymn to Diana by Ben Jonson https://englishverse.com/poems/hymn_to_diana

[Danik 2016]

"River! that in silence windest" Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ‘To the River Charles’

[tailor STATELY]

"Spring, the sweet Spring, is the year's pleasant king;" - Thomas Nash Spring...
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44817/spring-the-sweet-spring#:~:text=Spring%2C%20the%20sweet%20spring%2C %20is,%2C%20to-witta-woo!

[Danik 2016]

"Tell me Sun" - Deepak Kumar Pattanayak

[tailor STATELY]

"Under the wide and starry sky" - Robert Louis Stevenson Requiem...
https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/requiem/

[Danik 2016]

"Veil, lord, mine eyes till she be past"- George Wither 1588 (Bentworth) – 1667
https://www.poetry.com/poem/15842/veil%2C-lord%2C-mine-eyes-till-she-be-past

[tailor STATELY]

"What nymph should I admire or trust" - Matthew Prior... The Question to Lisetta
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/matthew-prior/question-to-lisetta-2946

[Danik 2016]

"Xo, Affection" XOxo by Alize Badgett
https://www.poetry.com/poem/91766/xoxo

[tailor STATELY]

(Impressive to find an X ! )

"Yet once more, O ye Laurels, and once more" - John Milton... Lycidas
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44733/lycidas

[Danik 2016]

(Thanks to the site!)

Brian Wirtzfeld-"Zero, who is your hero?"
https://www.poetry.com/poem/109730/zero

[tailor STATELY]

lol... Short poem

"Amid my books I lived the hurrying years" - John McCrae Unsolved...
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/john-mccrae/unsolved-1470

(prolly better known for "In Flanders Fields")

[Danik 2016]

Beautiful!

"Beauty is brief and violent"-SNEHAL VADHER
https://bookriot.com/poems-about-beauty/

[tailor STATELY]

Incredible poem! Wonderful collection!!: rich with a wide variety of styles and artists that I that I've read... and new ones introduced. Angst and love and beauty and... Surprised to see a poem by Audrey Hepburn too. Emily Dickinson !!!! “A Brown Girl's Guide to Beauty” by Aranya Johar broke my heart... also "Pretty". Langston Hughes ! Khalil Gibran !!: "People of Orphalese, beauty is life when
life unveils her holy face.
But you are life and you are the veil.
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mir-
ror.
But you are eternity and you are the mir-
ror." !!! Used his poem "On Marriage" recently in a talk for a memorial for a dear friend.
... and on... WCW !! Interesting the dichotomy between the male and female view (especially modern). Beauty. (sigh).

"Conferring with myself" - Emily Dickinson Conferring with myself...
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Conferring_with_myself

[Danik 2016]

("A Brown Girls Guide to Beauty" is really strong)

"DOES the road wind uphill all the way?"-CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI

[tailor STATELY]

Found this analysis for "Up-Hill"... https://www.acharyar.com.np/2021/11/up-hill-poem-by-christina-rossetti.html

"Enough! we're tired, my heart and I." - Elizabeth Barrett Browning My Heart And I... http://ebbarchive.org/poems/my_heart_and_i.php

[Danik 2016]

Thanks for the analysis, tailor! It´s a good poem to read at school, I think!

"FROM the forests and highlands" Percy Shelley

[tailor STATELY]

Beautiful poem

"Go, wander, little book," - Nancy Rebecca Campbell Glass Go Wander
https://internetpoem.com/nancy-rebecca-campbell-glass/go-wander-poem/

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed the poem.

"HARK! ah, the Nightingale!" Mathew Arnold - Philomela

[tailor STATELY]

Beautiful poem / Very evocative: "How thick the bursts come crowding through the leaves!
Again—thou hearest?
Eternal passion!
Eternal pain!"


"I cannot meet the Spring unmoved" - Emily Dickinson I cannot meet the Spring unmoved
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/I_cannot_meet_the_Spring_unmoved_—

[Danik 2016]

Beautiful in it´s simplicity!

"Just now the lilac is in bloom,"Rupert Brookes- The old Vicarage, Grandchester
https://englishverse.com/poems/the_old_vicarage_grantchester

[tailor STATELY]

Wonderful poem, got some help here: https://www.thereader.org.uk/featured-poem-the-old-vicarage-grantchester-by-rupert-brooke/ . Can't wait for my lilacs to bloom !

"King Borria Bungalee Boo" - W.S. Gilbert King Borria Bungalee Boo
https://keytopoetry.com/william-schwenck-gilbert/analyses/king-borria-bungalee-boo/

[tailor STATELY]

"Lo! from quiet skies" - Rupert Brooke In Examination
https://www.poetryexplorer.net/poem.php?id=10041921

[tailor STATELY]

"Maelanfaid saw a tiny bird" - Michael Earls The Monk Maelanfaid...
https://internetpoem.com/best-poem/michael-earls/the-monk-maelanfaid-poem/

[Danik 2016]

"No coward soul is mine," Last Lines by Emily Brontë (love it)!
https://englishverse.com/poems/last_lines

[tailor STATELY]

Beautiful poem :)

"One must have a mind of winter" - Wallace Stevens The Snow Man
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45235/the-snow-man-56d224a6d4e90

[Danik 2016]

Beautiful poem! Have to change perspective as January is the hottest month here.

"PASSING away, saith the World, passing away". Passing away by Christina Georgina Rossetti

[tailor STATELY]

I see what you mean by declaring the seasons from being in the Northern hemisphere by default might radically change the point of view and meaning of a poem... even your offering may be guilty. I'm nearly always guilty of this, but did make one concession with my poem "The Phlyarology of the Apanthropinizator
" from 3/21/2022. Here's one from the web that seems to be hemisphere neutral -

"Quick through the gates of Fairyland" - Fay Inchfawn Early Spring...
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8563023-Early-Spring-by-Fay-Inchfawn

[Danik 2016]

Liked the neutral poem!
re: It was just a comment, not a criticism. It´s just a funny feeling, when I read about an icy January. But, of course, the poets will usually write according to their location.

The poet was a surprise: "Rome! what a scroll of History thine has been". Urbs Sacra Aeterna, Oscar Wilde

[tailor STATELY]

Enjoyed the homage to Rome the city and its history. Did not know he was a poet.

"Sleep on, sleep on, another hour —" - Edgar Allan Poe TO -... https://www.eapoe.org/works/mabbott/tom1p059.htm

[Danik 2016]

Re: If you have time (it´s long but impressive)https://poets.org/poem/ballad-reading-gaol

Beautiful! Didn´t think Poe could write something so serene.

"There is another sky" There is another sky by Emily Dickinson

[tailor STATELY]

Beautiful poem by Emily to her Brother.

Wilde's poem is both tragic and hopeful... the things he had to endure.

"Under a spreading chestnut-tree" - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Village Blacksmith
https://poets.org/poem/village-blacksmith

[Danik 2016]

Liked it very much! It conveys a feeling of a peaceful, industrious, rounded up existence.

"VERSE, a breeze 'mid blossoms straying" Youth and Age by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

[tailor STATELY]

A sad lament of growing old (sigh).

"wisteria in the spring" - wordvango Oct 2017 Wisteria...
https://hellopoetry.com/words/wisteria/

[Danik 2016]

Liked specially the second poem about the wisteria girl!

Didn´t find a first line beginning with "X" but at least a title:

Xenophanes

By Ralph Waldo Emerson


By fate, not option, frugal Nature gave
One scent to hyson and to wall-flower,
One sound to pine-groves and to waterfalls,
One aspect to the desert and the lake.
It was her stern necessity: all things
Are of one pattern made; bird, beast and flower,
Song, picture, form, space, thought and character
Deceive us, seeming to be many things,
And are but one. Beheld far off, they part
As God and devil; bring them to the mind,
They dull its edge with their monotony.
To know one element, explore another,
And in the second reappears the first.
The specious panorama of a year
But multiplies the image of a day,--
A belt of mirrors round a taper's flame;
And universal Nature, through her vast
And crowded whole, an infinite paroquet,
Repeats one note.

https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/ralph-waldo-emerson/xenophanes-15292

[tailor STATELY]

Cool poem - way over my head. Googled and found these bios to help with my inadequate knowledge of (their) philosophies:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/xenophanes/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/emerson/


"Yellow suits. He wore yellow suits. To work, to mourn. He wore yellow" - S K Garcia Apr 2016 Yellow Suits
https://hellopoetry.com/words/yellow/

[Danik 2016]

Thanks for the links, taylor. I'll have to go back to them, didn´t know anything about him either. Maybe the basic idea of the poem is contained here: "all things
Are of one pattern made; bird, beast and flower,
Song, picture, form, space, thought and character". It seems that everything in the universe is a variant of akind of basic stuff or substance.
Like those poems about yellow.

No many choices "Zacho the King rode out of old".Zacho the King rode out of old by James Elroy Flecker

[tailor STATELY]

Maybe the basic idea of the poem is contained here: "all things
Are of one pattern made; bird, beast and flower,
Song, picture, form, space, thought and character". It seems that everything in the universe is a variant of akind of basic stuff or substance.
Like those poems about yellow.... perhaps this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ylem ... which brings to mind a funny (to me) story:
There’s an old joke about human arrogance. One day a group of scientists got together and decided that humanity had come a long way and no longer needed God. So they picked one scientist to go and tell Him that they were done with Him. The scientist walked up to God and said, “God, we've decided that we no longer need you. We’re to the point where we can clone people, manipulate atoms, build molecules, fly through space, and do many other miraculous things. So why don’t you just go away and mind your own business from now on?”
God listened very patiently and kindly to the man. After the scientist was done talking, God said, “Very well. How about this? Before I go, let’s say we have a human-making contest.” To which the scientist replied, “Okay, we can handle that!”

“But,” God added, “we’re going to do this just like I did back in the old days with Adam.”

The scientist nodded, “Sure, no problem” and bent down and picked up a handful of dirt. God wagged a finger at him and said, “Uh, uh, uh. Put that down. You go find your own dirt.”... and more to he same article that's pretty cool: https://www.jpost.com/blogs/through-a-glass-darkly/gods-dirt-386925

Zacho is a name I've never come across before... https://englishverse.com/poems/the_ballad_of_zacho
... enjoyed. Added to my mental list of encounters with the ferryman :)


"A little girl" - Masha Yurkevich Mar 2019 Two Apples... a sweet, sweet poem !
https://hellopoetry.com/words/apples/

[Danik 2016]

Sweet, indeed! "Blow, blow, thou Winter Wind" From King Lear by Shakespeare I think.
https://englishverse.com/poems/blow_blow_thou_winter_wind

[tailor STATELY]

Cool poem :)

"Carrot dances in a sweat" - author: Dreams of Sepia Sep 2015 Cabbage Soup...
https://hellopoetry.com/words/cabbage/

[Danik 2016]

Liked the Hello. poems site but when I click on a word it tells me "Bad gateway 502.

"DEAR! of all happy in the hour, most blest". Safety by Rupert Brooks
https://englishverse.com/poems/safety

[tailor STATELY]

Sorry about the bad gateway... odd; works for me; must be a regional thing again.

The poem by Rupert Brooks is very poignant.

"Eggplant entity" - Caren Krutsinger Eggplant Entity...
https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/eggplant_entity_1239730

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed the eggplant poem. Eggplant is a favorite with me.
A bit dismal, but there aren´t so many first lines starting with "f". "Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away;". Fall leaves fall by Emily Brontë.

Fall leaves fall
by Emily Brontë

Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away;
Lengthen night and shorten day;
Every leaf speaks bliss to me
Fluttering from the autumn tree.


I shall smile when wreaths of snow
Blossom where the rose should grow;
I shall sing when night's decay
Ushers in a drearier day.
https://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/fall_leaves_fall_1667

[tailor STATELY]

I agree... Emily must have been feeling a bit morose at the time (if she was the protagonist that is).

"Gravy boats filled with piping hot gravy" - Elizabeth Squires Jun 2013 Gravy...Pleiades...
https://hellopoetry.com/words/gravy/

[Danik 2016]

Lol! Did you write this before lunch?

"He sat in a wheeled chair, waiting for dark". Disabled by Wilfred Owen.
https://hellopoetry.com/poets/wilfred-owen/

[tailor STATELY]

re: before lunch (lol). Wilfred Owen's poem is quite poignant about the consequences of war, mentally and physically - both of which he was spared from by his death (as I read from his bio) just a week before the end of WWI. A shame the poet Yeats disparaged him so.

"I've pitched my tent close to"- Sonya Ki Tomlinson Jun 2014 Igloo...
https://hellopoetry.com/words/igloo/

[Danik 2016]

Beautiful!

" Igloo
Sonya Ki Tomlinson

I've pitched my tent close to
the cloistered stars
where the cool breath of heaven
caresses my cloud capped face
and my heart can exile
her pain in the uninhabited
sterling stillness
no footprints lead to my door
in this endless white tundra
not even an echo enters
silent black pearl
crystallized, suspended
inanimate
exhaled
but I am not lost"
https://hellopoetry.com/words/igloo/

"Just now the lilac is in bloom". The Old Vicarage, Grantchester by Rupert Brooke: https://englishverse.com/poems/the_old_vicarage_grantchester

[tailor STATELY]

lol... I know I've read this before... having had to translate some of the text; oh, how he disparaged the neighboring towns!

‘"Kind hearts are the gardens," - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Kind Hearts are the Gardens...
https://schoolofkindness.org/kindness-poems

[Danik 2016]

Liked the kindness poem.

"I think I was enchanted".I think I was enchanted, Emily Dickinson
https://hellopoetry.com/poets/emily-dickinson/

[tailor STATELY]

♥ Love Emily's poetry ♥ ... in one analysis I found this poem is about her reading another poetess' poem.

Looks like I skipped "J":

"Just off the highway to Rochester, Minnesota," - James Wright A Blessing...
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/a-blessing/

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Aii! How tender. Worthy rescue of "J". Will have to look for more poems by James Wright!


"Lines on a Skull, by Ravi Shankar

" life’s little, our heads

sad. Redeemed and wasting clay

this chance. Be of use."

https://liveboldandbloom.com/04/quotes/beautiful-life-poems#A_Question_by_Robert_Frost

[tailor STATELY]

Tiny poem !

"My mind was a mirror:" - Edgar Lee Masters's Ernest Hyde...
https://www.americanpoems.com/poets/edgar-lee-masters/ernest-hyde/

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

"next to of course god america i..."."next to of course god america i...(III)e.e. cummings
https://www.americanpoems.com/poets/eecummings/next-to-of-course-god-america-i-iii/

[tailor STATELY]

re: ee - "He spoke. And drank rapidly a glass of water"... LOL ! Love the analysis :)

"Orange Juice then Frosting" - Hopi Butler Nov 2011 Orange Juice then Frosting...
https://hellopoetry.com/words/orange/

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Bad Gateway, but recovered the poem though Google. A punch in the stomach.
"Pink, small, and punctual," May-Flower, Emily Dickingson
https://www.litscape.com/author/Emily_Dickinson/May-flower.html

[tailor STATELY]

Yes, I noticed recently that the 502 (?) error occurs on that website on occasion for me too. The poem is very evocative.

Beautiful little poem by Emily :)

"Quaff a cup, and send a cheer up for the Old Land!" - Gerald Massey (1828–1907) Introductory to Australasia, Down in Australia...
https://www.bartleby.com/270/15/3.html

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Congrats. It is difficult to find an English poem with first line starting with "Q". Curious poem. Thought the poet was Australian and looked him up. But:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Massey

"Roses and Lilies, both are sweet;" Roses and Lilies by EllaWheler Wilcox
http://www.ellawheelerwilcox.org/poems/prosesli.htm

[tailor STATELY]

Congrats. It is difficult to find an English poem with first line starting with "Q". Curious poem. Thought the poet was Australian and looked him up. But:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Massey
I would have thought the same from Gerald Massey... Interesting bio.

"Roses and Lilies" is a sweet poem. Wikipedia: "Her works include Poems of Passion and Solitude, which contains the lines "Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone.""... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ella_Wheeler_Wilcox . She embraced Rosicrucianism among other aesthetics at one time. I remember taking a bike ride with my then 2nd wife to the Rosicrucian museum in San Jose to view the beautiful grounds and see the exhibits: https://www.rosicrucianpark.org . It may have been a subliminal prompt for my poem "To the Moon !!!" :)

"Sad as he sits on the white sea-stone" - D. H. Lawrence (David Herbert Richards) Tarantella...
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/d-h-lawrence/tarantella-22876

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

The museum looks inviting! here in Brasil , Rosicrucianism was a sort of underground movement, I don´t know exactly why, I suspect it was linked to other things, like politics. Our first emperor, D. Pedro I belonged to that movement for a short time, reaching grade 7 (the highest).

Enjoyed Lawrence's grandiose poem. I read some of his novels but wasn´t aware of his poetry.
" O big old tree, so tall an' fine," The Noble Old Elm by James Whitcomb Riley
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/james-whitcomb-riley/noble-old-elm-29252

[tailor STATELY]

Read the English Wikipedia article on D. Pedro I... quite a colorful life. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_I_of_Brazil

Enjoyed the poem :) Interesting use of informal dialect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Whitcomb_Riley Interesting character in that "Mark Twain" hated to be upstaged by him (lol).

"Scientists say the average human" - Nicole Sealey The First Person Who Will Live to Be One Hundred and Fifty Years Old Has Already Been Born...
https://www.2009-2019.poetryproject.org/15016-2/

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

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[Danik 2016]

Interesting personality poet Riley
"Later critics, like Henry Beers, pointed to his poor education as the reason for his success in writing." Lol! If that were true, Brazil would be swarming with poets.
As you showed interest in D. Pedro I. Because of Napoleon, Brazil, differently to other American Nation, was a monarchy from 1808 when the royal family arrived from Portugal until 1889 when the country proclaimed the Republic and banished the members of the imperial family, who had to go back to Portugal. Pedro I started build the imperial summer palace of Petropolis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petr%C3%B3polis. I lived there for about two year right behind the Cathedral, were his shrine is kept. But this year the city was flooded by the continuous rains

Pedro II, the son of Pedro I was the only modern emperor born In Brazil and one of the country´s best rulers, if not the best. But his daughter had married French Count d'Eu and she took it on herself to free the slaves definitively, annoying thus the big farmers who had now to pay wages to their former slaves or look for workers elsewhere.

Enjoyed that original poem by Nicole Sealey!

"The birds must know. Who wisely sings" The Way to Sing by Helen Hunt Jackson
https://www.litscape.com/author/Helen_Hunt_Jackson/The_Way_To_Sing.html

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Incredible city... Wikipedia: "Elizabeth Bishop, American poet and short-story writer, lived partly in Petropolis for 17 years (1944–61) with Lota de Macedo Soares, architect and landscape designer.[56]"

Appears that the monarch period was blessed with Pedro I, and especially Pedro II.

Beautiful poem by Helen Hunt Jackson :)

"Unnoted as the setting of a star" - John Greenleaf Whittier Mulford
https://www.bartleby.com/372/422.html

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Yes,and it seems to have inspired the poet.https://english.williams.edu/excerpt-from-elizabeth-bishops-brazil/

Here you can have the idea of the house, Elisabeth Bishop is named as one of its first owners.
http://www.casasbrasileiras.arq.br/csalotta.html

"Violet, violet, sparkling with dew," The Wild Violet, Hannah Gould
https://www.litscape.com/author/Hannah_Flagg_Gould/The_Wild_Violet.html

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Yes, one can see thee influences of her adopted home. Found this for the residence... https://casasbrasileiras-wordpress-com.translate.goog/2011/08/26/casa-lota-macedo-soares/?_x_tr_sl=pt&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc Beautiful rambling home, and with servants !

Loved the poem :) I once transplanted numerous violets in a bed of Ajuga when I lived in Magalia.

"When some people talk about money" - Tracy K. Smith The Good Life... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56376/the-good-life

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

re: Elisabeth Bishop. Yes, Lota belonged to a traditional and wealthy family and having servants was quite usual in those households. According to the film. the poet had her own apartment, separated from the Manor House, where she could write her poems. The problem, also according to the film, was that Lota worked in Rio de Janeiro(about 2 hours by car from Petropolis) so Bishop often was alone in the house. Maybe it was that circumstance, that ultimately destroyed their relationship.

Liked the poem but hope people there have enough food.
Looked it up, you seem to enjoy living in small towns. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magalia,_California

"You see that porcelain ranged there in the window,"The House Of Dust: Part 03: 07: Porcelain by Conrad Aiken.
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/conrad-potter-aiken/house-of-dust-part-03-07-porcelain-7246

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Re: Elizabeth Bishop: Ah, wondered why the split-up and Lota's subsequent demise.

Magalia and Garden Valley (as well as Georgetown, CA) are examples of rural areas in the California foothills where the low to middle class/retirees relocated after home and apartment prices skyrocketed in the cities and suburbs here in California.

Loved the poem by Conrad Aiken; dense, yet simple - easy to get lost in :)

"Zippers are like hearts" Silver Tongued Shadow Zippers?... https://hellopoetry.com/words/zip/

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

re: It seems though, that you made a very good deal, when you bought this spacious property with area for several houses, planting areas (garden, vegetable garden), grazing area and woods (with a bonus fauna of foxes, bears, deer, lions, etc.).
I´m trying to sell my apartment, but it´s not easy. It is small but it has everything one needs, including a room for PC and most of the book shelves, a small balcony(place for two cats) and a laundry area. The problem is selling it well enough to buy a somewhat smaller but still confy place. The house market now is boxing people up in apartments between 22-30 m².

Enjoyed the "Zippers" poem, with it´s modern form. Now allow me to go one letter back for I found by accident, what I was looking for before:

"Xtra Tuffs, forgotten. Ten mornings to go." Ten mornings. Mindietta Vogel
https://hellopoetry.com/words/zip/

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Good eye ! Wonderful excursion poem :)

"And God asked the feline spirit" - Author Unknown What Cats Would Say to God...
https://bigcatrescue.org/cat-poems-and-poetry-about-loving-and-losing-cats/4/

Taffydoodles went home yesterday (6/13/2022), he was over 20 years old. He followed Thumper Bumper (Mr. Bunny Rabbit) who passed suddenly and unexpectedly on May 8th, 2022 (Mother's Day/U.S.).

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

So sorry about Taffy and THumper & Bumper! The fame of both crossed the Equator and Taffy was a champion living more than 20 years. The great defect of pets: they are mortal

Beautiful fitting poem!

"Heavenly Nap
by Ron Tranmer

Your nine lives here have ended
my loving furry friend,
and you've been called to heaven
to live life number ten.
It's so hard to lose a pet
who's loved as much as you,
but God and all His angels
are going to love you too.

I'll bet you're lying peacefully
upon an angel's lap.
Purring there without a care,
enjoying a heavenly nap.

Oh how I will miss you.
But time will pass and then,
one day I'll call your name
and you'll be on my lap again."
https://www.rainbowsbridge.com/stories/Ron-HeavenlyNap-635455193042993750.aspx

Tomorow we go on with "b".

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Thank you for your kind words and poem :)

"Because I could not stop for Death--" - Emily Dickinson Because I Could Not Stop For Death...
https://poets.org/poem/because-i-could-not-stop-death-479

[Danik 2016]

Loved the poem's symbology!

"Came the same cuckoo's cry "Wilder Music"
by John Frederick Freeman
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/john-frederick-freeman/wilder-music-15947

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Incredible poem !!! I'll use it for my "Poem by Another Poet" in my next poetry sharing in July !

"Dream !" - Sparkle in Wisdom Aug 2018 God's Own Dreams...
https://hellopoetry.com/words/dreams/

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[Danik 2016]

Beautiful image!

"Eyes of the stars are". Tuberoses ride the wind by Shofi Ahmed.
https://hellopoetry.com/tag/eye/

(Hello Poetry works better, when I put the Name of the site+ the word I want on the Google searcher)

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(Hello Poetry works better, when I put the Name of the site+ the word I want on the Google searcher)... Ah, I'll have to try that too - it's hit or miss otherwise.

"Eyes of the stars are / on the wings of the fireflies." - beautiful imagery and poem overall.

"flying creatures" - Andrew Parker Apr 2014 Feelings Travel / Feelings Travel Poem 3/15/2014...
https://hellopoetry.com/words/feelings/

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

Is he singing the feelings of insects?

"Gather the leaves from the forest".Feuilles D'Automne by Duncan Campbell Scott.
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/duncan-campbell-scott/feuilles-dautomne-30754

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I think it's more analogical or something :)

I love the Duncan Campbell Scott poem, though L6 made me stumble when he wrote "ruth". After googling a bit "(adj) ruthful - feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses"... https://www.finedictionary.com/ruthful.html

"Hudson tells us of them," - Leslie Norris Hudson's Geese
https://newcriterion.com/issues/1985/3/hudsonrsquos-geese

[Danik 2016]

re: "ruth"- I didn´t notice the word. It seems to be British English.
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/ruth

"Hudson tells us of them," sad story

"I ain't the kind of bloke as takes to any steady job;" Bottle-O! by Banjo Paterson (Andrew Barton)

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Enjoyed :)

"Jealous girls these sometimes were," - Robert Herrick How Marigolds Came Yellow....
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/robert-herrick/how-marigolds-came-yellow-18902

[Danik 2016]

Lol!

"Kind reader, tarry here, nor miss" The Minneapolis Case by James Williams

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"The wearer must have been a "human,""... lol !

"Look at my knees," - Robert Graves (1895–1985) I Wonder What it Feels Like to be Drowned?...
https://poets.org/poem/i-wonder-what-it-feels-be-drowned

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed the original take!

"May is Building Her House". May is building her house by Richard Le Gallienne

"May is Building Her House
May is building her house. With apple blossoms
She is roofing over the glimmering rooms;
Of the oak and the beech hath she builded its beams,
And, spinning all day at her secret looms,
With arras of leaves each wind-swayed wall
She pictureth over, and peopleth it all
With echoes and dreams,
And singing of streams.
May is building her house. Of petal and blade,
Of the roots of the oak is the flooring made,
With a carpet of mosses and lichen and clover,
Each small miracle over and over,
And tender, traveling green things strayed.
Her windows, the morning and evening star,
And her rustling doorways, ever ajar
With the coming and going
Of fair things blowing,
The thresholds of the four winds are.
May is building her house. From the dust of things
She is making the songs and the flowers and the wings;
From October's tossed and trodden gold
She is making the young year out of the old;
Yea! out of winter's flying sleet
She is making all the summer sweet,
And the brown leaves spurned of November's feet
She is changing back again to spring's."
Richard Le Gallienne

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Wonderful poem :)

"Making the global village" - Shofi Ahmed Live Your Imaginaton...
https://hellopoetry.com/tag/make/

[Danik 2016]

Set me thinking!

"Not the light of the long blue Summer," October by Alice Cary
https://www.litscape.com/author/Alice_Cary/October.html

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Nice poem ! Googled Alice Cary and found out her younger sister was also a poet :)

"O child of beauty rare --" - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Holy Family...
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Works_of_J._W._von_Goethe/Volume_9/Holy_Family

[Danik 2016]

re: The Cary sisters. A sort of American Brontë sisters?

"Piping down the valleys wild,". Introduction to the Songs of Innocence by William Blake
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/blake03.html#blossom

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Sweet poem :)

"Quarantine O quarantine" - Manuel May 2020 Ode to Quarantine...
https://hellopoetry.com/tag/quarantine/

[Danik 2016]

Found also:

"Kvothe Dec 2020
Post-covid walk

Quick,
quit your cage of crystal screens,
the virus here has came and been.
Seek trees with vines in times of need,
and see Sol
speckle kisses
on crisp new leaves."

""Rain and rain! And rain and rain!" We To Sigh Instead of Sing by James W. Riley
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/james-whitcomb-riley/we-to-sigh-instead-of-sing-29186

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"Kvothe Dec 2020
Post-covid walk"... Incredible poem for these times ! Enjoyed "We To Sigh Instead of Sing" very much too :)

"She charges her ankle bracelet // from the kitchen chair" - Christopher Soto SOMEWHERE IN LOS ANGELES] THIS POEM IS NEEDED...
https://aprweb.org/poems/somewhere-in-los-angeles-this-poem-is-needed

[Danik 2016]

Very original and interesting!

The Divine Image (In "Songs of Innocence")
William Blake

To Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love
All pray in their distress;
And to these virtues of delight
Return their thankfulness.
For Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love
Is God, our father dear,
And Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love
Is Man, his child and care.
For Mercy has a human heart,
Pity a human face,
And Love, the human form divine,
And Peace, the human dress.
Then every man, of every clime,
That prays in his distress,
Prays to the human form divine,
Love, Mercy, Pity, Peace.
And all must love the human form,
In heathen, turk, or jew;
Where Mercy, Love, & Pity dwell
There God is dwelling too.
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/blake03.html#blossom

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Great poem !

"utterly and amusingly i am pash" - e.e. cummings: This poem was first published as Sonnets—Actualities IV...
https://cummings.ee/book/and/poem/sonnets-actualities-iv/

[Danik 2016]

Interesting! Had to read it twice to understand it.

"Varry monny years ago, when this world wor rather young," Happy Sam´s Song by John Hartley
https://allpoetry.com/Happy-Sam's-Song

[Dark Muse]

We real cool. We

The Pool Players Seven at the Golden Shovel by Gwendolyn Brooks

https://poets.org/poem/we-real-cool

[WolfLarsen]

The Pool Players Seven at the Golden Shovel. I always love that poem.

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The Pool Players Seven at the Golden Shovel... was the first Golden Shovel I was introduced to not so long ago :)

"Xanax in my drawer." - FiguringItOut Mar 2020 The Moon...
https://hellopoetry.com/tag/xanax/

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed "we real cool. we". The Moon. Rather sad, but first line starting with "X"!
"Yellow-bird, where did you learn that song," Yellow Bird by Celia Thaxter
https://www.litscape.com/author/Celia_Thaxter/Yellow_Bird.html

[Dark Muse]

Zacho the King rode out of old

The Ballad of Zacho by James Elroy Flecker

https://englishverse.com/poems/the_ballad_of_zacho

[Danik 2016]

"All the world's a stage," All the World's a Stage by William Shakespeare
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/william_shakespeare/poems/1317

[Dark Muse]

Because I could not stop for Death

Because I could not stop for Death by Emily Dickinson

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47652/because-i-could-not-stop-for-death-479

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Great poems !

"Call the roller of big cigars," - Wallace Stevens The Emperor of Ice-Cream...
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45234/the-emperor-of-ice-cream

[Dark Muse]

Drink to me only with thine eyes - To Celia by Ben Jonson


https://poets.org/poem/song-celia

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Wonderful poem... I had never read it before but knew some of it from a popular song :)

"Earth has not anything to show more fair:" - William Wordsworth Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802...
https://poets.org/poem/composed-upon-westminster-bridge-september-3-1802

[Dark Muse]

Facing west, from California's shores - Facing West From California's Shores by Walt Whitman

https://whitmanarchive.org/published/LG/1891/poems/43

[Danik 2016]

"Get up! let us flee from the Foe," The *** & The Enemy by Walter Crane

https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/walter-crane/***-the-enemy-13394

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Found this for "Get Up... " http://mythfolklore.net/aesopica/crane/17.htm :)

"Have faith" - M.B.Victoria Better Will Come...
https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/better-will-come

[Danik 2016]

re: Thanks! Baby's Aesop is cute and this book of 1887 looks fine. But I didn´t know I was going so far back.
Re 2: Hopefully!

"I could not lift my voice to sing," A Mother's Grief And Joy by Hannah Flagg Gould
https://www.litscape.com/author/Hannah_Flagg_Gould/A-Mothers-Grief-And-Joy.html

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Such a tender poem.

"Just see what's happening, Worley! - Worley rose" - Edmund Blunden (1896-1974) Pill Box...
https://www.thepoetryhour.com/poems/pill-box

[Dark Muse]

Ok my macabre self just has to use this one

Kill them! Yes hang them all - Mount Rennie by Francis Lauderdale Adams

https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/francis-william-lauderdale-adams/mount-rennie-95-34375

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lol... "Dust to dust!"

"Let down the bars, O Death!" - Emily Dickinson
https://www.bartleby.com/113/4041.html

[Dark Muse]

Just for fun I will keep with the theme

Mortality, behold and fear! - On the Tombs in Westminster Abbey by Francis Beaumont

https://englishverse.com/poems/on_the_tombs_in_westminster_abbey

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The last 6-lines are especially poignant.

Staying with the theme:

"Nobody heard him, the dead man," - Stevie Smith Not Waving But Drowning...
https://poets.org/poem/not-waving-drowning

[Danik 2016]

Are we funereal minded? Then I give you:
"O bard of fortune, you deem me nought" The Song Of The Waste-Paper Basket by Henry Lawson

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The last line of your poem: "And the hopes of both I drown."
Found your poem here: http://www.ironbarkresources.com/henrylawson/SongOfTheWastePaperBasket.html

"Pass the tambourine, let me bash out praises" - Kathleen Jamie The Way We Live (1987)
https://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/the-way-we-live/

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed the poem with its multiple enumerations!

"Quaint and forgotten, by an unused road,"The Old House by Madison Julius Cawein
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/madison-julius-cawein/old-house-36918

[Dark Muse]

Ok maybe it is my macabre side coming out again, but I loved this.

Rack'd by the flames of jealous rage - To Mary by Lord Byron

https://internetpoem.com/george-gordon-byron/to-mary-poem/

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Two great poems... Loved this:
• "And through the house the wind goes rustling soft,
As might the ghost - a whisper of perfume -
Of some sweet girl long dead."
and this touched me:
• "I hope you sometimes will regret me." a sentiment I've learned too well in the negative (sigh).

"Some fish are sold for sashimi," - Craig Santos Perez One fish, Two fish, Plastics, Dead fish...
https://www.poetryinvoice.com/poems/one-fish-two-fish-plastics-dead-fish

[Danik 2016]

Interesting ecological poem. More about the author:https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/88745/halloween-in-the-anthropocene-2015

"The punctual tide draws up the bay," On the shore by Susan Coolidge

[Dark Muse]

Sticking with the watery theme

Under the sea, the great wide sea - Under the Sea by Fannie Isabelle Sherrick

https://www.poetrycat.com/fannie-isabelle-sherrick/under-the-sea

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On the Shore... https://fullreads.com/poetry/on-the-shore/
Both sea poems are mesmerizing in their simplicity and make me long for the sea :)

Perez' Halloween in the Anthropocene, 2015 is a haunting tragic poem.

"Vague, vague 'neath darkling waves," - Madison Julius Cawein
The Nixes' Song....
https://internetpoem.com/madison-julius-cawein/the-nixes-song-poem/

[Dark Muse]

I love The Nixes Song

Ok breaking the theme but Wordsworth is an old favorite of mine, and the first line of this did bemuse me somewhat

Why art thou silent! Is thy love a plant - Speak by William Wordsworth

https://englishverse.com/poems/speak

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lol... the first line is precious; ending with " Speak, that my torturing doubts their end may know!"

"Xenophobia" - Dre Poetry Sep 2019 Xenophobia...
https://hellopoetry.com/tag/artsdre/ (had a few "x's" queued up just in case)

[Dark Muse]

lol... the first line is precious; ending with " Speak, that my torturing doubts their end may know!"

"Xenophobia" - Dre Poetry Sep 2019 Xenophobia...
https://hellopoetry.com/tag/artsdre/ (had a few "x's" queued up just in case)

A powerful poem.

I just found this line to be quite intriguing

You black man-of-war-hawk that wheels in the light - The Man-Of-War Hawk by Hermann Melville

https://poets.org/poem/man-war-hawk

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Had to do some research on Melville's poem:
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Man-of-war hawk
(Zoöl) the frigate bird.... seems this bird is predatory upon other birds who have caught prey and will harass the targeted birds until they regurgitate their meal - the meal to be taken by the frigate bird. I guess mariners often regaled these and other birds.

Interesting poem as it's now 2:00 am here in the Gold Country:
"Zut! it's two o'clock." - Robert William Service Noctambule...
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/robert-william-service/noctambule-31020

[Danik 2016]

Interesting to see a poem by Melville!
Loved Noctambule.Ample and concise at a time.

And here we are back to "A".
"A little grey curl from my father's head" A little grey Curl by Louisa May Alcott

[Dark Muse]

I know I usually go for the daker stuff, but I was drawn to how joyful this line was

Bards of Passion and of Mirth - Bards of Passion of Mirth by John Keats

https://www.bartleby.com/101/630.html

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Two worthy poems !

罕啵៪ꨪ팥㽙꺾㵗啓喩呴嵿䫮䵿渵眷巹罕啵 ??

So for a lark I took Keat's poem and ran
the meter through a binary translator
(using UTF-16 little endian) and got an
output that translated with three English
style words appearing to be a Chinese
name: Han Po Kai (which I then googled
and translated a result from Chinese
using google translate) and found an
interesting message: "oh come oh come
shout break open ah doo ah want" -
I wonder what Keats' meant ? :)

7/7/2022

"Could our first father, at his toilsome plow," - Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea Adam Posed...
https://www.poetryinvoice.com/poems/adam-posed

[Dark Muse]

I almost used this one the last time I had "D" so I could not resist the second time around

Dark to me is the earth. Dark to me are the heavens. - The Desolate City by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

https://www.poetry-archive.com/b/the_desolate_city.html

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Sad to lose the city you love...

"even a pencil has fear to" - e.e. cummings even a pencil has fear to...
https://www.poeticous.com/e-e-cummings/even-a-pencil-has-fear-to

[Dark Muse]

Sad to lose the city you love...

"even a pencil has fear to" - e.e. cummings even a pencil has fear to...
https://www.poeticous.com/e-e-cummings/even-a-pencil-has-fear-to

A Curious fun poem. The first line caught my interest, and I loved the last verse


,did you ever hear a jazz
Band?

or unnoise men don’t make soup who drink.

This line just caught my eye as being fun and intriguing

Five geese deploy mysteriously - Bas-Relief by Carl Sandburg

https://allpoetry.com/Bas-Relief

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Another incredible poem... I pondered whether the geese were real or a sculpture but realized it really didn't matter :)

"Gotta love us brown girls, munching on fat, swinging blue hips," - Patricia Smith Hip-Hop Ghazal...
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/49642/hip-hop-ghazal

[Danik 2016]

From #!70- Lol! I don´t know what worthy poet John Keats wants to say, but you seem to be missing the glorious spam moments on LitNet.

Enjoyed the geese poem, Dark Muse! Finally a poet recognized the geese rights!

Loved the good humored poem by Patricia Smith. Found also by her:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/147054/10-year-old-shot-three-times-but-shes-fine. It happens almost every day, that a kid is shot here.

"HOW dear to my heart is the old village drugstore," The Hair-Tonic Bottle by Ben King
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/king02.html#1

[Dark Muse]

In honor of my ancestry I was drawn to this

Italia! thou art fallen, through with sheen - Italia by Oscar Wilde

https://englishverse.com/poems/italia

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The Hair-Tonic Bottle: Ah, the days of snake oil... have they ever left ?
Italia: a hopeful metaphorical homage :)
10-Year-Old Shot Three Times, but She’s Fine: "Boom, boom, she says to no one." :(

"Just Home and Love! the words are small" - Robert Service Home and Love...
https://www.yourdailypoem.com/listpoem.jsp?poem_id=3189

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed!

"Kind Heaven will oft a lesson give" The Swan by William Hayley (Can´t resist a poem that exalts animals however old fashioned)
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/william-hayley/swan-18239

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From #!70- Lol! I don´t know what worthy poet John Keats wants to say, but you seem to be missing the glorious spam moments on LitNet.... I haven't noticed any spam. Maybe you're referring to my poems title 罕啵៪ꨪ팥㽙꺾㵗啓喩呴嵿䫮䵿渵眷巹罕啵 ??... that was the translation from the binary string I derived from Keats' metre of the poem using UTF-16 little endian. Hopefully we're not under attack otherwise.

Reminded me ever so briefly of your coin poem:

"My fist holds as many coins" - Sachiko Murakami Wishing Well...
https://www.poetryinvoice.com/poems/wishing-well

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I can't edit for some reason without copy/paste, etc... Such a tender story told in The Swan.

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

#170- I was kidding. The symbols were so familiar, though I think, the Keats sequence is different from the spam sequences. No, no real spam.
#180- Thanks! Usually editing is not possible. One presses the edit button and there appears a blank page. But there is a trick that may work. When the blank page appears I press "Go Advanced". The page will protest that the message is to short, but if one goes one step back one can now edit the post. At the end one will have the post in unedited and edited version. But that is easy to mend.

"like the beginnings — o odales o adagios — of islands" Guanahani, 11 by Kamau Brathwaite (loved this page. So many contemporaneous poets!)

[Dark Muse]

In these hot days where I live I do not personally find the sun a friend, but I found the line delightful.

My friend the Sun-like all my friends - A Western Voyage by James Elroy Flecker

https://englishverse.com/poems/a_western_voyage

[tailor STATELY]

• Enjoyed the 2nd line "from under the clouds where I write the first poem" of Guanahani, 11.

lol... I liked the ending of A Western Voyage "I'll wait the day when darkness kills/My brother and good friend, the Sun."

"Not the music." - Lorna Crozier Not the Music...
https://www.poetryinvoice.com/poems/not-music

[Danik 2016]

Very original poem.... Liked particularly the end: "everything shrinking/to the smallest/thinnest letter/I."
"Often, when the sun is sinking", A Summer Evening Scene in Chateaugua by W. M. MacKeracher

[Dark Muse]

I just thought this sounded lovely

Pale beech and pine so blue - In a Wood by Thomas Hardy

https://www.bartleby.com/121/39.html

[tailor STATELY]

A Summer Evening Scene in Chateauguay: very serene, vivid imagery... https://www.poetry.com/poem/56894/a-summer-evening-scene-in-chateauguay

39. In a Wood: Quite a surprise; turning nature on her head

"And Now for Something Completely Different":

Q-Tips raised! Their storm approaches. - ConnectHook Take a Tip... https://hellopoetry.com/poem/2750629/take-a-tip/

[Danik 2016]

Aiaiai! Q-Tips is fitting poem for these times!

"i(Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days!)"To The Rose Upon The Road Of Time by William Butler Yeats

[tailor STATELY]

Lovely poem :)

"Solace of mine hours of anguish," - John Kendall To An Elephant On His Tonic Qualities...
https://www.tercul.com/en/works/to-an-elephant-on-his-tonic-qualities-john-dum-dum-kendall?translation=e1893607-b50e-4f5d-8ad5-c1c41b7cc835

[Danik 2016]

Original and beautiful! But I hope all is well, family all recovered.

"they say we are a family that is good at death / i make a decision to" Family Affair by Faith Arkorful
https://www.poetryinvoice.com/poems/family-affair?language=fr

[Dark Muse]

Original and beautiful! But I hope all is well, family all recovered.

"they say we are a family that is good at death / i make a decision to" Family Affair by Faith Arkorful
https://www.poetryinvoice.com/poems/family-affair?language=fr

Interesting poem, that first line is definitely catching.

Unhoused in deserts of accepted thought - My Heaven by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

http://www.ellawheelerwilcox.org/poems/pmyheave.htm

[tailor STATELY]

Family Affair: Wow... so much comes to mind as the poem unfolds and questions remain unanswered re: Uncles/Police the dead/the living.

My Heaven: Such a tender poem - Incredible poet; wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ella_Wheeler_Wilcox yet another seeker who journeyed to California's Rosicrucian society for solace.

"Vovchsafe to grace these rude vnpolish'd rymes," - Michael Drayton To The Deere Chyld Of The Muses, And His Euer Kind MecæNas, Ma. Anthony Cooke, Esquire...
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/michael-drayton/to-the-deere-chyld-of-the-muses-and-his-euer-kind-mecnas-ma-anthony-cooke-esquire-14437

[Danik 2016]

My Heaven: Liked specially the last strophe.

Lol!Much enjoyed "To The Deere Chyld Of The Muses..." I know now to what verse recur when starting a new poem:
"Vovchsafe to grace these rude vnpolish'd rymes,". Also this other verse can come in handy: 'I am no Pickpurse of anothers wit.'

"Who I am" Enigma by Andrea Thompson
https://www.poetryinvoice.com/poems/enigma

[tailor STATELY]

Another wonderful poem. I like especially: "My mind tries it on, pins it / itchy like a label on my lapel" :)

"Xerxes, when the Three Hundred he beheld" - Capel Lofft
Albuera
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/1957/albuera.html

[Danik 2016]

Recovered Albuera:https://www.bartleby.com/270/6/19.html. Enjoyed the historical poem!
I don´t know if it is a location problem. When I open the link above, there appears a map.

"You’d have to pay us". You’d Have to Pay Me Could You Pay Me Enough by Sara Peters
https://www.poetryinvoice.com/poems/youd-have-pay-me-could-you-pay-me-enough

[tailor STATELY]

Yes, this poetry anthology source adds a map to locate where poems are/were referenced for context (haven't checked very many).

"you'd have to pay us" had me off balance so I checked for more info: "If you have a poem in our anthology what inspired you to write it?:" “You'd Have to Pay Me Could You Pay Me Enough”] was the second last poem I wrote for my book. I was thinking about a nameless group of people being held hostage. I was also imagining a powerfully manipulative female leader." - from the same website... https://www.poetryinvoice.com/poems/poets/sara-peters ... eeesh !

"Zodiac signs have failed to tell" - Jana Chehab Mar 2020
49 light years away... https://hellopoetry.com/poem/3758470/49-light-years-away/

[Dark Muse]

All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair - Work Without Hope by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43999/work-without-hope

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed!

"Breathe not, hid Heart: cease silently," To An Unborn Pauper Child by Thomas Hardy
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/thomas_hardy/poems/10734

[Danik 2016]

Much enjoyed this astrological/astronomical poem!:). Not to disturb the sequence my poem is on page 14.

[tailor STATELY]

Enjoyed "Work Without Hope"... "A Short Analysis of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s ‘Work without Hope’"... https://interestingliterature.com/2020/05/coleridge-work-without-hope-summary-analysis/

To An Unborn Pauper Child Quite mellancholy - Wikipedia: "Many of Hardy's poems deal with themes of disappointment in love and life, and "the perversity of fate", but the best of them present these themes with "a carefully controlled elegiac feeling".[49]"

"cruelly,love" - e.e. cummings... https://cummings.ee/book/xli-poems/poem/songs-xii/

[tailor STATELY]

Much enjoyed this astrological/astronomical poem!:). Not to disturb the sequence my poem is on page 14.

Page 14 ? Looking... (smacks head with palm)... we're on page 14 (lol)... nope... still looking....

figured it out: Pg 14 here if one is signed out... my Pg 5 because of my page preferences :)

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Dark Muse]

Enjoyed "Work Without Hope"... "A Short Analysis of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s ‘Work without Hope’"... https://interestingliterature.com/2020/05/coleridge-work-without-hope-summary-analysis/

To An Unborn Pauper Child Quite mellancholy - Wikipedia: "Many of Hardy's poems deal with themes of disappointment in love and life, and "the perversity of fate", but the best of them present these themes with "a carefully controlled elegiac feeling".[49]"

"cruelly,love" - e.e. cummings... https://cummings.ee/book/xli-poems/poem/songs-xii/

The first lines caught my eye, naturally. I really enjoyed the Autumn imagery of the poem.

Dark Angel, with thine aching lust - The Dark Angel by Lionel Johnson

https://www.poeticous.com/lionel-johnson/the-dark-angel-dark-angel-with-thine-aching-lust

[Danik 2016]

Page 14 ? Looking... (smacks head with palm)... we're on page 14 (lol)... nope... still looking....

figured it out: Pg 14 here if one is signed out... my Pg 5 because of my page preferences

Sorry, tailor and Muse! A typical senior blunder! When I wrote post # 198 it was on a space on page 13 before post #. What I totally forgot is that the post would not appear on that place but be published only on page fourteen after intervening posts including the #197 it was referring too! Going to edit it.

Hope your young head is fine after so much smacking, tailor!

"Enough of thought, philosopher!" The Philosopher by Emily Bronte
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/emily-bronte/philosopher-9575

[tailor STATELY]

"young"... lol

"'The Dark Angel'" is a very dense and dark poem... found some understanding here: https://www.thedarkfortress.co.uk/librarium/lionel_johnson.php#.YtPL9DHMLIU

"The Philosopher" - another incredible poem "--Still to my Death will say/Three Gods within this little frame/Are warring night and day"... more struggle.

"Freezes, goes blue screen, shuts down. Dead pixel, dark." - Raoul Fernandes An Online Friend Dies Somewhere Outside the Internet...
https://www.poetryinvoice.com/poems/online-friend-dies-somewhere-outside-internet

[Danik 2016]

Interesting poem "An Online Friend Dies Somewhere Outside the Internet". I believe it is the first poem about internet relationships that I read. Love this Canada based site.

"Give me a few more hours to pass" Finis by Marjorie Pickthall
https://www.poetryinvoice.com/poems/finis

[tailor STATELY]

Enjoyed Finis... reminded me of today's gospel lesson in the Old Testament ( 2 Kings chapter 20... https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/ot/2-kgs/20?lang=eng ) where Hezekiah is told by the Prophet Isaiah that he will die soon and Hezekiah pleads with the Lord to lengthen his life... it worked !!

"He wakes, who never thought to wake again," - Rupert Brooke The Life Beyond...
https://internetpoem.com/rupert-brooke/the-life-beyond-poem/

[Danik 2016]

The Life Beyond. An emphatic poem!

"In Jerusalem, and I mean within the ancient walls," In Jerusalemby Mahmoud Darwish
https://www.poetryinvoice.com/poems/jerusalem

[tailor STATELY]

Ah, to walk in timeless Jerusalem... :)

"Junkies line up by the infant day;" - Yasemin Balandi Forest Hill Station... http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/4838/forest-hill-station.html

[Danik 2016]

The map was improved this time by a photograph of Forest Hill station. But couldn't find the poem itself, not even by googling it.

"King David was a sorrowful man:" King David by Walter De La Mare
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/walter-de-la-mare/king-david-33418

[tailor STATELY]

Weird... Here's the poem
Forest Hill Station (by) Yasemin Balandi

Junkies line up by the infant day;
Insomniac, achnied.
Conductors speak in tongues
Banal, hackneyed.

A graffito declares peace
On the weeping walls
In magenta and peach
Another declares "Love is phat!"

The ceiling above is laced
With pigeon mess
Passengers greet each other
Talk about weather forecast

Our beloved Forest Hill Station:
With your quirks and
Amusing history
(For your tracks were
Water carriers once)
We love you dearly.

King David... a sweet poem.

"Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown," - Ralph Waldo Emerson Each and All... http://www.eliteskills.com/analysis_poetry/Each_And_All_by_Ralph_Waldo_Emerson_analysis.php

[Danik 2016]

Thanks! Loved Forest Station! Emerson´s poem is a gem of beauty and wisdom! Going to look for more by him.

"My granddaddy Silas was born on the Nightingale plantation" I Am Bound for de Kingdom by Marlanda Dekine
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/158318/i-am-bound-for-de-kingdom

[tailor STATELY]

Sorrowful poem...

"NEGLIGIBLE Old Star." - Gertrude Stein Negligible Old Star...
https://www.poetry-archive.com/s/negligible_old_star.html

[Danik 2016]

Strange poem, but interesting images.

"Our mother gave us a sack of weed killer". Weed Killer by Fiona Tinwei Lam

[tailor STATELY]

Tragic poem ! :( Shades of getting dusted by DDT.

"Pythagoras planned it. Why did the people stare?" - W.B. Yeats The Statues... https://www.thepoetryhour.com/poems/the-statues

[Danik 2016]

Yeats, The Statues: "Empty eyeballs knew/That knowledge increases unreality,/ that/ Mirror on mirror mirrored is all the show."
"Quicksand years that whirl me I know not whither, Quicksand years by Walt Whitman
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/walt-whitman/quicksand-years-1093

[tailor STATELY]

Awesome poem ! Very brief for a master... Especially liked this:
Only the theme I sing, the great and strong-possess'd soul, eludes not,/One's-self must never give way, that is the final substance, that out of all is sure

Hoping this is not true... "Remorse is memory awake," - Emily Dickinson LXIX / or Remorse is memory awake... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/remorse-is-memory-awake/

[Dark Muse]

Always enjoy Dickinson

Into the silver night - Revelation by Sir Edmund Gosse

https://englishverse.com/poems/revelation

[tailor STATELY]

Loved this line: "With food for furry friends" :)

"Jack and Jill went down the hill" - Jay Scott Jack and Jill
... http://satirist.org/poetry/text/me/jack-and-jill.html

[Danik 2016]

Jack and Jill rung a bell with me, so I looked it up:https://allnurseryrhymes.com/jack-and-jill/

"King and Queen of the Pelicans we;"The Pelican Chorus. by Edward Lear
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/edward-lear/pelican-chorus-23385

[Dark Muse]

"King and Queen of the Pelicans we;"[I]The Pelican Chorus. by Edward Lear
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/edward-lear/pelican-chorus-23385

Quite delightful

Ok when I saw this I just could not resist:

Lingerie - Godiva by Paul Cameron Brown

https://internetpoem.com/paul-cameron-brown/godiva-poem/

[tailor STATELY]

King & Queen... enjoyed :)

Godiva... incredible use of language.

Matsuo Basho -

Moonlight slanting
through the bamboo grove;
a cuckoo crying.

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor

[Danik 2016]

"Lingerie-Godiva"-original. Moonlight-lovely!
An (for me) unexpected side of a known poet.
"Not that I love thy children, whose dull eyes" Oscar Wilde, Sonnet to Liberty
https://englishverse.com/poems/sonnet_to_liberty

[Dark Muse]

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"Not that I love thy children, whose dull eyes" Oscar Wilde, Sonnet to Liberty
https://englishverse.com/poems/sonnet_to_liberty

A powerful and interesting poem.

Only a line in the paper - Only A Line by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

http://www.ellawheelerwilcox.org/poems/ponlyali.htm

[tailor STATELY]

Sonnet to Liberty: "in some things" an interesting way to end the poem.

Only...: "But it meant such desolate years"... so sad.

"Poems are heavenly things," - Susan Coolidge Prelude... https://www.poetrycat.com/susan-coolidge/prelude

[Danik 2016]

Both preceding poems speaking about the power of the written words.
Preludeis a good hands up for distinguishing verses from poems.

Some good questions:

"Quoth the thief to the dog, let me into your door"

The Dog And Thief by Jonathan Swift

https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/jonathan-swift/dog-and-thief-36081

[Dark Muse]

Both preceding poems speaking about the power of the written words.
Preludeis a good hands up for distinguishing verses from poems.

Some good questions:

"Quoth the thief to the dog, let me into your door"

The Dog And Thief by Jonathan Swift

https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/jonathan-swift/dog-and-thief-36081

Both rather enjoyable and rather apt

Rebellion is my theme all day - The Modern Patriot by William Cowper

https://internetpoem.com/william-cowper/the-modern-patriot-poem/

[tailor STATELY]

The Dog and the Thief Interesting, still a relevant "modern day" fable; the concluding stanza:
"From London they come, silly people to chouse,
Their lands and their faces unknown:
Who'd vote a rogue into the parliament-house,
That would turn a man out of his own?"


The Modern Patriot - This caught me eye: "Who constitutionally pulls / Your house about your ears."

"September rain falls on the house." - Elizabeth Bishop Sestina...
https://staff.washington.edu/rmcnamar/383/bishop.html

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed both the very opportune rebellion of Cowper and the delicate sensibility of Sestina.
On a more subjective note: "TARRY a while, O Death, I cannot die" The Poet To Death by Sarojini Naidu
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/sarojini_naidu/poems/4571

[Dark Muse]

Enjoyed both the very opportune rebellion of Cowper and the delicate sensibility of Sestina.
On a more subjective note: "TARRY a while, O Death, I cannot die" The Poet To Death by Sarojini Naidu
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/sarojini_naidu/poems/4571

A bittersweet, lovely poem

Us two in the room; my dog and me - The Dog by Ivan Turgenev

https://www.poetry-archive.com/t/the_dog.html

[tailor STATELY]

The Poet To Death: "dhadikulas" is the bird of time as best I can figure out (laptop very slow today)... delightfully light poem.

The Dog: "in each of us there burns and shines the same trembling spark." - wonderful poem.

"Vultures are holy creatures." - cryptonature (Jarod Anderson)...
https://twitter.com/CryptoNature/status/1375092972174381057

[Danik 2016]

Much enjoyed The Dog and pay my respect to the twittered Vultures.

A poet I discovered recently:
"When you open the door, everything falls into place"—In the Lake Region
by Tomas Venclova
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/50941/in-the-lake-region

[tailor STATELY]

Delightful poem... I thought it was going off the rails near the end, but recovered nicely. Enjoyed this bit: "The twins Celsius and Fahrenheit / are predicting spring weather—while a shadow obscures / the past (just like the present)"

"X-ing" - Francie Lynch May 2021 Not X-actly...
https://hellopoetry.com/tag/x/

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed! "X" poems are always a rarity! Curious to know when you felt that Venclova's poem went off the rails.

" Ye children of the Land of Gold," The Ballad Of Mabel Clare by Henry Lawson
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/henry-lawson/ballad-of-mabel-clare-5249

[Dark Muse]

Zim Zizimi - (of the Soudan of burnt Egypt, - The Soudan, The Sphinxes, The Cup, The Lamp by Victor Hugo

https://readandripe.com/the-soudan-the-sphinxes-the-cup-the-lamp-by-victor-hugo/

[tailor STATELY]

re: Venclova - "Of the black photos, the black headphones
of radio operators, black signatures under documents,
of the unarmed with their frozen pupils—of the prisoner's boot or the trunk
of the refugee?" I dunno, perhaps a reference to war lost my interest for a brief moment.

" Ye children..." - LOL ! : "the song is meant / For singing through the nose."

"Zim Zizimi..." - Long poem. 18 words with "q" in them. Zim, a tragic end.


"A noiseless patient spider," - Walt Whitman A Noiseless Patient Spider...
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45473/a-noiseless-patient-spider

[Danik 2016]

re: Tomas Venclova. A short comment on the poem:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/articles/145678/translator39s-note-in-the-lake-region-by-tomas-venclova

Zim Zizimi- Romantic Victor Hugo

Not all that partial to spiders, but what Walt Whitman made out of it! Enjoyed the delicate poem.

"Be glad your nose is on your face," Be Glad Your Nose is on Your Face by Jack Prelutsky

[tailor STATELY]

Ah !

Enjoyed "Be glad..." quite amusing :)

"cruelly,love" - e.e. cummings... https://cummings.ee/book/xli-poems/poem/songs-xii/

[Danik 2016]

e.e. cummings- interesting, apocalyptical author!

"Dawn-cool, dew-cool". The Wood-Spring To The Poet by Duncan Campbell Scott

[tailor STATELY]

Found your poem here... http://www.public-domain-poetry.com/duncan-campbell-scott/wood-spring-to-the-poet-30733 Incredible poem :)

"Ere yet the warning chimes of midnight sound," - Oliver Wendell Holmes Humboldt's Birthday... https://www.poetrycat.com/oliver-wendell-holmes/humboldts-birthday

[Danik 2016]

Thanks for rescuing the link I forgot to include, Tailor!
'Humboldt's Birthday'-Wonderful poem!
FROM harmony, from heavenly harmony,-JOHN DRYDEN A Song for St. Cecilia's Day, 1687
https://englishverse.com/poems/a_song_for_st_cecilias_day_1687

[tailor STATELY]

Some interesting line structures: " The double double double beat" Enjoyed :)

"Golden-locked Erato, and thou, sweet lute," - Jan Kochanowski Lament Xv... https://internetpoem.com/jan-kochanowski/grave/

[Danik 2016]

A bit sad and sleepless!

"Hidden in wonder and snow, or sudden with summer," Laurentian Shield by F. R. Scott
https://www.poetryinvoice.com/poems/laurentian-shield?language=fr

[tailor STATELY]

Laurentian Shield: Complex poem; conveys a melancholy about "progress".

"In the midst of a bleakness I dare;" - Susan N Aassahde Elbo Foe... https://internetpoem.com/susan-n-aassahde/elbo-foe-poem/

[Danik 2016]

Compact and full of meaning!

"Just above yon sandy bar," Chrysaor by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=38538 - Wonderful short poem. Trying to find out if Chrysaor was a star or constellation or ? with no joy :(

"“Keep, ancient lands,” we cry, “your foreign brains!"" - Jay Scott The New Democracy
... http://satirist.org/poetry/text/me/the-new-democracy.html

[Danik 2016]

I wasn´t lucky either.

The New Democracy-very opportune. Elections in October
"Leave the early bells at chime," Road-Hymn For The Start by William Vaughn Moody
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/william-vaughn-moody/road-hymn-for-the-start-26490

[tailor STATELY]

Enjoyed Road-Hymn For The Start... had something in common with your previous poem: "Down the road the day-star calls;" :)

"My father threw his language overboard," - Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang Winter House... https://www.poetryinvoice.com/poems/winter-house

[Danik 2016]

Delicate poem about losing and acquiring language. Some more about the author:https://library.torontomu.ca/asianheritage/authors/tsiang/

"No coward soul is mine". No Coward Soul Is Mine by Emily Brontë
https://www.poetryinvoice.com/poems/no-coward-soul-mine

[tailor STATELY]

re: Sarah - Quite an accomplished author !

re: No Coward... - a most uplifting poem "So surely anchored on/The steadfast rock of Immortality./With wide-embracing love/Thy spirit animates eternal years" :)

"On your way of travel," - A Jung Lim Message in the air... https://hellopoetry.com/poem/3737685/message-in-the-air/

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed "On your way of travel,". Compact and to the point.
"People who live by the sea" People Who Live by Erica Jong
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/erica_jong/poems/2858.html

[tailor STATELY]

Very evocative poem... enjoyed :)

"Quick-flowing creamy light and all cohering:" - Kieron Winn First Day of Spring in Bath... https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/first-day-of-spring-in-bath