HWL: A most venerable American poet. "And he whose ear is tuned aright/Will hear no discord in the three,/But the most perfect harmony.'" very profound.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letitia_Elizabeth_Landon
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-sea-shore/
tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
LEL-Liked the poem, the several associations with the sea.
Luis de Góngora
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_de_Góngora
http://www.poetryintranslation.com/P...r_Toc323380666
http://www.spainthenandnow.com/spani...fault_151.aspx
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
LdG: "was a Spanish Baroque lyric poet. Góngora and his lifelong rival, Francisco de Quevedo, are widely considered the most prominent Spanish poets of all time. " - wikipedia. Having a rival seems to have spurred his creativity to greater heights. Enjoyed "On the Deceptive Brevity of Life" & "Index of First Lines" which reads as a poem as well. The other link is a fine critique of his poem "Sonnet clxvi: Mientras por competir"
Gaspara Stampa... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaspara_Stampa
https://allpoetry.com/Gaspara-Stampa
tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
LdG-Unfortunately he sounds very different in English at least in the translations I found.
GS-First Italian woman poet I ever heard of. You find them all.Also a very early literary salon.
Samuel Daniel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Daniel
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/love-is-a-sickness-2/ (it must be because he doesn´t write about anything else)
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
SD: Man of the court c. 1600 and a short time Poet Laureate. Aside from the Why so?s and Heigh ho!s a rather nice poem.
Donald Grady Davidson... https://mypoeticside.com/poets/donald-davidson-poems
https://mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-7281
tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
SD-Lol!Unfortunate choice! There are lots of other sonnets.
DGD- The poem is a piece of history.
Du Fu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Du_Fu
In Jincheng, music of silk and flutes mixes together all day,
Half goes to the river breeze, half goes to the clouds.
Music such as this should only go to heaven above,
In this human world, how many times can it be heard?
http://www.chinese-poems.com/due.html
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"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
DF: (lol) "I am about to scream madly in the office / Especially when they bring more papers to pile higher on my desk." and this quote was ~758 AD. Lived in a time when China was constantly in turmoil. "According to the Encyclopædia Britannica, Du Fu's writings are considered by many literary critics to be among the greatest of all time,[54] and it states "his dense, compressed language makes use of all the connotative overtones of a phrase and of all the intonational potentials of the individual word, qualities that no translation can ever reveal.""... grand praise indeed.Overflowing
Du Fu
The moon's reflected on the river a few feet away,
A lantern shines in the night near the third watch.
On the sand, egrets sleep, peacefully curled together,
Behind the boat I hear the splash of jumping fish.
Fenggan... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenggan
tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
Fenggan-A mysterious poet. Most of his poetry seems lost.
Francisco Quevedo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_de_Quevedo
To a spring
How happily you greet 1
the sun with your current,
in whose light you bubble to life,
ah, sacred spring,
daughter of the ancient forest!
How you entrust your hidden trove,
your cold waters, to its blond rays!
You blazon forth, sure of summer,
and bluster bravely at hoary winter;
but don’t mistreat him; by that road, 10
for all his fury, he must return,
for see, your new gilded sun
must return the way it came.
Winter and spring pass fl eetingly
through you; so nature decrees;
the vagabond months, marked by
the sky, are merely your guests.
Parched by heat, you love the ice,
prisoner of ice, you love the heat.
Sure, the sun’s brilliance 20
breaks your transparent jail,
made of liquid crystal and seeming silver.
But I fear that, burning,
it comes less to liberate
than to imbibe you,
and that you should decry
what impoverishes your clear current,
more than the pious ice,
which, seeing you weary of ever fl owing,
freezes your motion, 30
so you might rest.
library.globalchalet.net/.../Selected%20Poetry%20of%20Francisc...
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"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
FQ: Góngora's antagonist (mutual). He was an "adherent of the style known as conceptismo": "a brilliant flash of wit expressed in pithy or epigrammatic style." It would appear he was a vulgar man albeit brilliant poet; the poem "To A Spring" delightful and full of passion..
Qiu Jin... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qiu_Jin
http://www.allday.com/this-forgotten...180839166.html
tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
QJ-Loved her.Even in 20C to be a Chinese feminist must have required extra courage. Chinese women were more repressed than the women of several western countries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Swift
http://www.poetrycat.com/jonathan-sw...ress-of-poetry
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"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
JS: I know him from Gulliver's Travels, but only by the movies I've seen, evidently sanitized. The poem introduced me to
the word Hippocrene.
Suleiman the Magnificent... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suleiman_the_Magnificent
http://www.turkishclass.com/forumTitle_55458
tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
JS-I love Gulliver´s Travels I think the book is a wonderful satire of British Imperialism. "A Modest Proposal" is an obligatory read but it is a very harsh satire, it´s meant to shock, that´s why I didn´t include the link.
This Suleiman may have given his people good laws, but to his sons he was worse than English Richard III
Saadi Shirazi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saadi_Shirazi
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/ch-0...ment-story-08/
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"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
SS: A common man poet during the Mongol invasions who had an ease with prosaic style.wikipedia: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in Tehran: "[...] At the entrance of the United Nations there is a magnificent carpet – I think the largest carpet the United Nations has – that adorns the wall of the United Nations, a gift from the people of Iran. Alongside it are the wonderful words of that great Persian poet, Sa’adi":
All human beings are members of one frame,
Since all, at first, from the same essence came.
When time afflicts a limb with pain
The other limbs at rest cannot remain.
If thou feel not for other’s misery
A human being is no name for thee.
Simin Behbahani... http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...060902025.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontl...behbahani.html
https://iranian.com/Arts/2002/February/Simin/
tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
SB-Loved her strong personality. Incisive poetry
http://siminbehbahani.com/index.php/en/i-m-so-in-love
Billy Jno Hope
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/billy_jno_hope (Couldn´t find a better biography)
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...pe/poems/21812
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"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
SB: Wonderful poem of the regrets of growing old, albeit contrary to my belief to endure to the end. BJH: http://calliopenerve.blogspot.com/20...ies-billy.html . The poem is a bit avant garde: enjoyed L5.
Helene Johnson... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helene_Johnson
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-sandman-2/
tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
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