Alphabetical Poem First Lines

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Trying to reconcile the title with Ash Wednesday's observance... Ash Wednesday observance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ash_Wednesday In the context of the end of the poem: "A forest has many individual trees. / There's nothing more to cry about. / There's nothing more to scream about. / Where am I--" perhaps the melancholy of days leading up to our Savior crucified - being hung on a "tree" of many trees... but the analysis on AllPoetry goes into another direction... dunno. Enjoyed :)

"Across ten thousand miles of cerulean blue," - Wang Zhiguo; ABA ABOVE THE CLOUDS*... https://modernchinesepoetry.com/poems.php#Wang_Zhiguo

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Thanks for the link. I think perhaps the end of the poem is related to a sort of emptiness that follows the intense frolics of Carnival and wich in its turn mirrors
the emptiness and uncertainty of second world War,where Lichtenstein fought as soldier.

Wow. A beautiful Tibetan poem, the first of our collection! Very interesting collection of modern Chinese poetry, influenced by modern life and probably too by western poetry.

"A man and a woman —"."SAME OLD STORY" by Rong Rong
https://modernchinesepoetry.com/poems.php#Rong%20Rong

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Interesting comparison between a relationship between a man and a woman and a car wreck... Enjoyed :)

"Birds' love and birds' song" - Alfred Tennyson; Spring... https://www.poetrycat.com/alfred-tennyson/spring

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A light and cheerful Spring poem!

"Come all you little rouseabouts and climb upon my knee;"."Saltbush Bill On The Patriarchs" by Andrew Barton Paterson
https://allpoetry.com/Saltbush-Bill-on-the-Patriarchs

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Wonderful rendition of a biblical event... Enjoyed also the summary at AllPoetry :)

"Der noble Ritter Hugo" - Charles G. Leland; Ballad... https://allpoetry.com/poem/8589203-Ballad-by-Charles-Godfrey-Leland

[Danik 2016]

Lololol mocking the English spelling of the Germans!

"Elysium is as far as to"."Elysium is as far as to" by Emily Dickinson

https://allpoetry.com/poem/14326786-Elysium-Is-As-Far-As-To-by-Emily-Dickinson

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A poem of anticipation... a friend awaits :) Enjoyed.

"Fat trains go down loud tracks" - Alfred Lichtenstein; The Trip to the Mental Hospital... https://www.poetrycat.com/alfred-lichtenstein/the-trip-to-the-mental-hospital

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A very typical German Expressionismus poem:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_expressionist_cinema#:~:text=German%20Expre ssionism%20was%20an%20artistic,performances%20to%2 0reflect%20inner%20conflicts.

."Go, words of mine! and if you live"."Epilogue" by Abram Joseph Ryan
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8590953-Epilogue-by-Abram-Joseph-Ryan

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Thanx for the wiki link !

Enjoyed... The hopes of a poet that their words may live on, if only for a day.

Hoping we haven't used this poem; my laptop is down and am using a desktop computer with none of my notes...

"HARK! hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings," - William Shakespeare; Aubade... https://englishverse.com/poems/aubade

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Not that I remember! Sweet poem!

"I've always been a seeker of the city,"."Seeking the Crowd I Walk" by Sakutara Hagiwara
https://allpoetry.com/Seeking-The-Crowd,-I-Walk

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Still not on my laptop... cable has arrived but my car has been down since Thursday so I can not get it for a few hours... hoping the cable is the only problem. Car is in the shop for warranty repair of my electronic steering... cost me upwards of $3000.00 USD last time when it first went out in February.

Wonderful ! Needed a poem on community for our Thursday at Two poetry group for 4/17/2025 and this "fills the bill"... may use one line of the poem for an acrostic Golden shovel (need a 9-word line from the poem, maybe: "The waves' whereabouts are whisked off over the horizon.")... Enjoyed :)

A poem by a poet with the letter 'J' in their name:

"On cool and inviting bamboo mat and pillow" - Jiang Kui; On Red Lotus Petals... https://www.cn-poetry.com/jiangkui-poems/red-lotus-petals.html

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Since yesterday Mercury is going forward again, so issues repairs should prosper. Having a bad issue in the kitchen, water is leaking somewhere behind the sink, a bad place because the sink in L is glued to the walls.

Glad the poem will be useful for your meeting.


A poem by a poet with "k" in its name:

"A butterfly —"."A Butterfly" by Ķaga no Chiyo
https://allpoetry.com/Kaga-no-Chiyo

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Finally! Laptop power cable arrived and is snug in the receptacle... but no joy... Ordered battery for laptop... electronic steering assembly should arrive at the car dealership today: hoping for a quick and expert repair. Pray your water leak is attended with expertise and with minimal time, damage, and charges.

Enjoyed this poem but for this: "you also get mad / some days."... I cannot imagine a butterfly being angry.

"Let me be monosyllabic to-day, O Lord." - Carl Sandburg; Monosyllabic... https://allpoetry.com/Monosyllabic

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Thanks! Repair matters are never so easy or so cheap. Hope that specially your car gets fixed quickly as you depend so much on it. I haven't got a plumber as yet.

Well,I can imagine an angry butterfly. There would be a lot of fluttering.

Enjoyed Sandburgs poem,but didn't think the analysis so complete.i think there are two contrasting situations.

"My green aquarium of phantom fish,"The Reef" by Aldous Leonard Huxley
https://allpoetry.com/The-Reef

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After I made my last post here I got a call that my car was done and got a ride to pick it up, getting there 10 minutes before closing... so happy it looks like I never logged off.

Incredible poem by AH... The summary help... Enjoyed :)

"No, helpless thing, I cannot harm thee now;" - Anna Lætitia Barbauld; The Caterpillar... https://allpoetry.com/The-Caterpillar

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Congrats! Is it electric (you wrote that you changed the battery)?
Enjoyed the caterpillar poem very much!

"Oh I am wild—wild"."Sale of Souls" by Adah Isaacs Menken
https://allpoetry.com/Sale-Of-Souls

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Thanx. No, my car is not electric unfortunately... I've ordered the inner battery for my laptop... evidently when the battery can no longer hold a charge the laptop will not work even when plugged in.

The sale of souls... heart wrenching. Enjoyed.

"Poison of asps is under our lips ?" - Rudyard Kipling; Poison Of Asps... https://mail.poetic-love.net/publicdomainpoetry/poetry.php?pdid=5616

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Found some notes to this curious Kipling poem: https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/readers-guide/rg_poison1.htm

Poem by a poet with "q" in his name.
"Friend, old friend in the Manse by the fireside sitting,"."Christmas Eve"
by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/christmas-eve-1

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Interesting find... an S.P. connection possibly.

"Thoughts, thoughts! Whistle them back like hounds returning--"... Enjoyed this poem very much... its rhyme and meter pleasant.

"riding by a bar called " nn"" - Nia Francisco; Navajo Inn... https://www.blueridgejournal.com/poems/nf-navajoinn.htm

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Loved Nia Francisco's poem with its forceful images- and the new site.

"She came home, my Lord, and smashed in the television;"."Wife Who SmashedTelevision Gets Jail" by Paul Durcan
https://www.blueridgejournal.com/poems/pd2-wife.htm

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Lol poem in a sad way... perhaps wry humour. Enjoyed :)

"That is no country for old men. The young" - William Butler Yeats; Sailing to Byzantium... https://www.uomus.edu.iq/img/lectures21/MUCLecture_2023_12133631.pdf

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A more detailed analysis, thanks. So it's from this poem the brothers Cohen took the title of one of their movies "No country for old men". I didn't watch it, but from what I've seen from these directors it probably means that the scenario of the story is too harsh and violent for old men to survive in it.

"Up at his attic sill the South wind came"."Up at his attic sill" by Allan Seeger
https://www.blueridgejournal.com/poems/as-upathisattic.htm

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I noticed that... the movie was very edgy.

• A wiki for Alan Seeger: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Seeger
• A summary at AllPoetry: https://allpoetry.com/poem/8479787-Sonnet-IV-by-Alan-Seeger
I think the city the poet is so disillusioned with is New York... I cannot conceive of the same sentiment with Paris. Enjoyed :)

"Vain is the effort to forget." - Matthew Arnold; On The Rhine... https://www.simple-poetry.com/poems/on-the-rhine-97138493920

[Danik 2016]

Thanks for the links. Interesting bio.


I think big cities are similar. And Paris has become a symbol of culture. We probably idealize it a lot.

Beautiful poem! Longing for the past, expectations for the future.

"Water in the millrace, through a sluice of stone"."Winter Landscape with Rooks" by Sylvia Plath
https://allpoetry.com/Winter-Landscape,-With-Rooks

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A bleak poem where even a swan in Winter is thought of being absurd... what a tortured spirit. Enjoyed.

Poem by a poet with an 'x' in their name:

"One night's east wind adorns a thousand trees with flowers" - Xin Qiji - Green Jade Cup-Lantem Festiva... https://www.cn-poetry.com/xinqiji-poems/lantem-festival.html

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Wonderful poem.One can imagine the scene. Enjoyed very much!


"Yes, his face really is so terrible"."Sudden Appearance of a Monster at a Window" by Lawrence Raab
https://www.blueridgejournal.com/poems/lr-monster.htm

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Scary poem... Enjoyed :)

"Zenith! The highest point to which furthest" - Titus/Tony; Love in the Highest - Reverse Abecedarian... https://allpoetry.com/poem/12519837-Love-in-the-Highest---Reverse-Abecedarian-by-Titus

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A sweet Z poem and reverse abecedarian at that! Enjoyed!

"Architects plant their imagination, weld their poems on rock,"."Earthfast" by A.S.J. Tessimond

https://allpoetry.com/Earthfast

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Incredible poem... Have to disagree with the premise that architecture is more permanent than the written word though. Enjoyed :)

"Black-as-can-be cats arrive a-pair," - Sakutaro Hagiwara; Cats... https://allpoetry.com/poem/8522669-Cats-by-Sakutaro-Hagiwara

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:) Same idea for the next poem!


"Cats no less liquid than their shadows"."Cats" by A.S.J. Tessimond
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8529619-Cats-by-A.S.J.-Tessimond/

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Wonderful poem with the exception of "Truly owned till shot or skinned." Enjoyed :)

""Do I believe," sayest thou, "what the masters of wisdom would teach me," - Friedrich Schiller; Genius... https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox

[Danik 2016]

I agree completely with you!

Wonderful Schiller poem¡

"Encased in talent like a uniform," ,W.H. Auden,"The Novelist"
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8492953-The-Novelist-by-W-H-Auden

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So true ! Enjoyed :)

"Fair as a wreath of fresh spring flowers, a band of maidens lay" - Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon; The Choice Of Sweet Shy Clare... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/rosanna-eleanor-leprohon/choice-of-sweet-shy-clare-23808

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Very 19th century poem.Enjoyed!

"Good hunting! – aye, good hunting""."The Forest Greeting" by Paul Florence Dunbar
https://www.blueridgejournal.com/poems/pd-hunt.htm

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Enjoyed the forest greeting :)

"How desert islands" - Paul Cameron Brown; Adventurer... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/paul-cameron-brown/adventurer-35470

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:)

"Adventurer"-poem sharp as a razor. Enjoyed the concise images and use of language.

"Inside the carriage-coach"."In The Horse Carriage" by Sakutaro Hagiwara
https://allpoetry.com/In-The-Horse-Carriage

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Enjoyed the carriage ride and the entreating of "Don't you rouse me from my sleep." :)

""Jack fell as he'd have wished," the Mother said," - Siegfried Loraine Sassoon; The Hero... https://allpoetry.com/poem/8499075-The-Hero-by-Siegfried-Sassoon

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Enjoyed this war poem.

"Know then thyself, presume not God to scan;".""The Riddle of the World" by Alexander Pope

https://www.blueridgejournal.com/poems/ap-riddl.htm

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Enjoyed :) Found a summary here: https://smartenglishnotes.com/2020/10/10/know-then-thyself-by-alexander-pope-summary-and-questions-and-answers/

"Laconic tears or Botticelli's Venus" - Paul Cameron Brown; Approaching Thirty (Lauds And Matins)... https://www.simple-poetry.com/poems/approaching-thirty-lauds-and-matins-63692769961

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Thanks for the notes. Interesting to know that Pope was mostly self taught . Also that the verb "to scan" was used in another sense in the 18C.
Enjoyed Paul Cameron's poem. I like his almost telegraphic style.


"My heart is what it was before,"."Alms" by Edna St. Vincent Millay

https://www.poetrycat.com/edna-st-vincent-millay/alms

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Enjoyed... found a summary at AllPoetry: https://allpoetry.com/poem/8476033-Alms-by-Edna-St.-Vincent-Millay

"Now at last I have come to see what life is," - Sara Teasdale; At Midnight... https://allpoetry.com/At-Midnight

[Danik 2016]

Thanks for the summary, I didn’t find the poem in All Poetry.


Enjoyed "At Midnight"!

"One by one, like leaves from a tree"."Leaves " by Sara Teasdale
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8504569-Leaves-by-Sara-Teasdale

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Enjoyed very much Sara's poem :)

"Pissing in the snow" - Kobayashi Issa; Pissing in the snow... https://allpoetry.com/Pissing-in-the-snow

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No comments!

Poet with "Q" in his name:
https://www.cn-poetry.com/qinjia-poems/three-poems-to-wife.html

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Lol... I know, another reason to like Basho more.

Tender poem. Wondering how much is lost in the English rendering into a rhyming poem.

"Riverwater and seawave,where is my boy?" - Bai Juyi; Riverwater and seawave... https://www.cn-poetry.com/baijuyi-poems/riverwater-seawave.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bai_Juyi

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed the poem. Chinese poems must be very difficult to translate.

"Slopes"."Slopes of Mount Kugami" by Taigu Ryokan
https://allpoetry.com/Slopes-Of-Mount-Kugami

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Brings back memories of all the times I've moved: some sweet, some bitter-sweet, some just bitter (sigh)... too many.

"The saintly hermit, midway through his prayers" - Rainer Maria Rilke; The Unicorn... https://eliteskills.com/c/15458

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:)

Delicate poem. As to the analysis eliteskills must somehow be involved in it. It had the courage to point out a maiden as one of the main symbols of the poem.
Needless to say, there is no maiden in the poem!. ;)


"Up Life's Hill with my my little Bundle"."Up Life's Hill with my my little Bundle" by Emily Dickinson
https://www.poemine.com/Emily-Dickinson/Up-Life-s-Hill-with-my-my-little-Bundle.html

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True... Editor #2 went off the rails.

I found 1-comment that works for me in understanding ED's poem
Meredith says:
July 21, 2019 at 3:35 pm
Spotless from blame is the Heart that proposed she not make this world her home, that she follow Him to her home… up the steep hill, up. Discouragement comes from the weight(s) we carry, making our step heavy, causing us to forget the light and joy and weightlessness that was the first grasping of Hope of Heaven. https://www.americanpoems.com/poets/emilydickinson/up-lifes-hill-with-my-my-little-bundle/ Enjoyed :)

"Vill nobodies try my nice Annual Pill," - Thomas Moore; The Annual Pill... https://www.poetrycat.com/thomas-moore/the-annual-pill

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Yes.There seems to be a grammar problem there, but I see what he means.
Could not find a context to this poem.


"W'EN de clouds is hangin' heavy in de sky,"."My Sweet Brown Gal" by Paul Laurence Dunbar
https://allpoetry.com/My-Sweet-Brown-Gal

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I think TM is just looking for a quick and easy fix of his society's drawbacks.

"No, I means my fiddle—dat's my sweet brown gal!" Lol, a fine turn at the end... Enjoyed the vernacular poem :)

Poem by a poet with an 'x' in their name:

"In the middle of a silence deserted as a street before a crime" - Xavier Villaurrutia; Nocturne: Nothing Is Heard... https://allpoetry.com/Nocturne:-Nothing-Is-Heard

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Wonderful poem! Villarrutia may be obsessed by the idea of death. But he extracts beautiful images out of it.

"You cannot see the walls that divide your hand"."Nursery Rhyme for a Twenty-First Birthday" by A. S. J. Tessimond

https://allpoetry.com/Nursery-Rhyme-For-A-Twenty-First-Birthday

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Brief enigmatic poem... enjoyed both the poem and the summary :)

Poem by poet with a 'z' in their name:

"Crouching hero walks with the guide of his broomstick" - Zandra Javier; I Went to the Zoo... https://allpoetry.com/poem/12743469-I-Went-to-the-Zoo-by-Zandra-Javier

[Danik 2016]

A very interesting poem. Enjoyed! And a seldom occasion when the poet explains the meaning of the poem.

"As to a child, I talked my heart asleep"."Sonnet X" by Fernando Pessoa
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8543645-Sonnet-X-by-Fernando-Pessoa

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I think this is my favorite by Pessoa so far... Enjoyed :)

"Bright summer comes, all bloom and flowers," - Eliza Paul Kirkbride Gurney; In A Season Of Bereavement... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/eliza-paul-kirkbride-gurney/in-a-season-of-bereavement-17088

[Danik 2016]

Sad and beautiful poem, touching with its simple language. But I hope things are well out there.

"Come to me, O ye children!"."Children" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
https://poemanalysis.com/henry-wadsworth-longfellow/children/

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Muddling through with a perfect brightness of hope :) Hoping things are well with you as well.

Children: "For ye are living poems,"... wonderful poem :)

"Does pleasant spring return once more?" - Friedrich von Schiller; The Complaint Of Ceres... https://allpoetry.com/The-Complaint-Of-Ceres

[Danik 2016]

:)

Schiller tomorrow. Got to go to bed now.

[Danik 2016]

The Complaint of Ceres-Wonderful poem!


"ecco a letter starting"dearest we"."ecco a letter starting" by e.e.cummings
https://allpoetry.com/ecco-a-letter-starting

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As the summary stated a playful enigmatic poem in the style of e.e.... Enjoyed :)

"Fair insect! that, with threadlike legs spread out," - William Cullen Bryant; To a Musquito... https://allpoetry.com/To-a-Musquito

[Danik 2016]

"The offspring of the gods, though born on earth" Aiaiai! Don’t let the dengue mosquito hear that! Enjoyed this poem from a place where mosquitoes were merely a nuisance.


"Glad hours have been when I have seen"."Contentment " by George Parsons Lathrop
https://www.poetrycat.com/george-parsons-lathrop/contentment

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Enjoyed :)

"Her voice is like clear water" - Sara Teasdale; A Fantasy... https://allpoetry.com/poem/8504593-A-Fantasy-by-Sara-Teasdale

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed this platonic fantasy!

"I had a dream--a strange, wild dream--"."A Dream" by William Cullen Briant
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8491981-A-Dream-by-William-Cullen-Bryant

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Mortality... sigh. Enjoyed :)

"Just in the hush before dawn" - Laurence Hope (Adela Florence Cory Nicolson); Verses: Faiz Ulla; Just in the hush before dawn... https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=154254

[Danik 2016]

Beautiful though pessimistic poem

Poem by a poet with "K" in her name
"from the mind"."From The Mind" by Kaga no Chiyo
https://allpoetry.com/From-The-Mind

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Enjoyed... Preferred the first translation :)

"Let us go across the road-bridge," - Sakutaro Hagiwara; Road-Bridge... https://allpoetry.com/Road-Bridge

[Danik 2016]

Me too!

Enjoyed "Road-Bridge so much! Very rich in symbolism.

"My heart is like a singing bird"."A Birthday " by Cristina Rossetti
https://allpoetry.com/A-Birthday

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Joy and love... what a birthday should be :)

"Now while the crimson light fades in the west," - Marietta Holley; The Land Of Long Ago... https://www.best-poems.net/marietta-holley/the-land-of-long-ago.html

[Danik 2016]

Beautiful, nostalgic poem!

“Oh where are you going with your love-locks flowing?"."Amor Mundi " by Christina Rossetti
https://poemanalysis.com/christina-rossetti/amor-mundi/

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Tragic poem well done... Enjoyed the poetics :)

"Penelope that longed for the sight," - Unknown; set to music by William Byrd; Penelope that longed for the sight... https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=67277

[Danik 2016]

A somewhat whiny poem.

Poem by a poet with his two names starting with "Q".

"Finches flash yellow through the Imperial Grove"."To My Friend At the Capital Secretary Pei" by Qian Qi
https://www.cn-poetry.com/qianqi-poetry/to-my-friend.html

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Beautiful mural. "Flowers muffle a bell in the Palace of Bliss / And rain has deepened the Dragon Lake willows;" An anguished poet... Enjoyed :)

"Rest and have ease;" - Humbert Wolfe; In the street of lost time... https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=17517

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Beautiful mural. "Flowers muffle a bell in the Palace of Bliss / And rain has deepened the Dragon Lake willows;" An anguished poet... Enjoyed :)

"Rest and have ease;" - Humbert Wolfe; In the street of lost time... https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=17517

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Beautiful mural. "Flowers muffle a bell in the Palace of Bliss / And rain has deepened the Dragon Lake willows;" An anguished poet... Enjoyed :)

"Rest and have ease;" - Humbert Wolfe; In the street of lost time... https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=17517

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Beautiful mural. "Flowers muffle a bell in the Palace of Bliss / And rain has deepened the Dragon Lake willows;" An anguished poet... Enjoyed :)

"Rest and have ease;" - Humbert Wolfe; In the street of lost time... https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=17517

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I see you had some posting difficulties. Litnet has been open for some hours here and then the "database error" message appears.

Beautiful and sad poem.

"Sleepy policemen waddle under streetlights."."The Night " by Alfred Lichtenstein
https://www.poetrycat.com/alfred-lichtenstein/the-night

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Big city vignette, stark in its brevity... Enjoyed :)

"Ten o'clock: the broken moon;" - Emma Lazarus A June Night... https://allpoetry.com/A-June-Night

[Danik 2016]

A June Night-Magical description of the moon and the night.Enjoyed very much!


"Under the shadow of a hawthorn brake,"."In Hospital" by Edith Nesbit
https://allpoetry.com/In-Hospital

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Odd war poem... Enjoyed :)

"Vainly wouldst thou, to gain a heart," - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; True Enjoyment
... https://allpoetry.com/True-Enjoyment

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Lol! Sounds all very romantic and modest, but didn't hinder the poet falling in love with more than 15 women throughout his life, the last being a girl of 18 when he himself was 80.

"Who looked for thee, thou little song of mine?" Sonnet by Alice Meynell
https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=153118

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JWvG: Lol

Alice Meynell was one of the poets of her time "Grappling with crucial ecofeminist concerns, the writers heightened awareness of and dispelled misconceptions about the nonhuman realm."... https://dokumen.pub/reconceiving-nature-ecofeminism-in-late-victorian-womens-poetry-1nbsped-9780826274298-9780826221872.html Enjoyed the poem :)

Poem(s) by a poet with an 'x' in their name:

"She spoke about being in heaven" - Xiao An; A Believer... https://worldliteraturetoday.org/2019/spring/three-poems-xiao

[Danik 2016]

Touching poem!

"Young and a conqueror, once on a day,"."The Conqueror« by Edith Nesbit.
https://allpoetry.com/The-Champion

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Fun poem about the battles between personified Summer and Winter... Enjoyed :)

Poem by a poet with a 'z' in their name:

"Wilted branches, old trees, twilighting crows;" - Ma Zhiyuan; Tianjingsha – Autumnal Musings”... https://huaqingsimeng.wordpress.com/2020/06/03/2-translations-ma-zhiyuans-tianjingsha-autumnal-musings/

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed the poem and both translations.


"As I went walking up and down to take the evening air,""Macdougal Street"A by Edna St. Vincent Millay
https://www.poetrycat.com/edna-st-vincent-millay/macdougal-street

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Dense poem, found some help here... http://maps-legacy.org/poets/m_r/millay/ninamiller.htm Enjoyed :)

"Beyond the crooked apple-bough" - Rosamund Marriott Watson; The new moon... https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=61250

[Danik 2016]

Thanks for the helpful link on Edna Millay.
Nostalgic moon poem. Enjoyed!

"Clouded with snow"."Winter" by Walter de la Mare
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8494519-Winter-by-Walter-de-la-Mare

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Enjoyed :) Curious what a frost-fire was in the context of the poem in WdlM's time... all the wikis describe 'it' in modern fantasy gaming.

"Down-adown-derry," - Walter De La Mare; Down-Adown-Derry... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/walter-de-la-mare/down-adown-derry-33296

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I didn't find a good article on the subject. Could there be wildfires in frosted areas too?

Enjoyed the legend of Annie Maroon.

"Early summer rain--"."Early summer rain--" by Yosa Buson
https://www.poemine.com/Yosa-Buson/Early-summer-rain.html

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That must be it.

Buson was heavily influenced by Basho... The translation of this poem into English must have lost some of its savor.

"From out the wood I watched them shine, -" - Walter De La Mare; Haunted... http://www.newforestcentre.info/gothic-poetry.html

[Danik 2016]

Maybe. I liked its simplicity though.

Enjoyed WdlM's poem. It didn't give me the feeling of hauntedness, but of permanence in the memory of loving ones.


"Gruffly growled the wind on Toller downland broad and bare,"."The Homecoming" by Thomas Hardy
https://www.poetrycat.com/thomas-hardy/the-homecoming

[tailor STATELY]

Enjoyed this poem of a new marriage, especially the two-liner first lines and those between the quatrains :)

"His image the Dog did not know," - Walter Crane; The Dog & The Shadow... https://artvee.com/dl/the-dog-and-the-shadow-3/

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed very much the humorous children poem and specially the illustrations. :)


"It is not the world"."Latitudes of Exil" by Michael Jackson
https://poetryarchive.org/poem/latitudes-exile/

[tailor STATELY]

Wonderful albeit a puzzle of a poem for me... tried for some reconciliation on the dates surrounding Pablo Neruda's passing: https://www.onthisday.com/events/date/1973/september... perhaps the return of Peron or Allende deposed in coup ? Enjoyed :)

"jazz harmonica" - Dayna Genevieve; jazz harmonica / haiku... https://www.jerryjazzmusician.com/a-collection-of-short-jazz-poems-vol-1/

[Danik 2016]

Not an easy poem, these new poems never are.I liked the images.

"KATE is like a violet, Gertrude's like a rose,"."A Garden of Girls" by Edith Nesbit
https://allpoetry.com/A-Garden-Of-Girls

[tailor STATELY]

Enjoyed the poem and summary :)

"love is more thicker than forget" - e.e. cummings; forget]... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/22224/love-is-more-thicker-than-forget

Spoken by the poet: https://www.google.com/search?q="love+is+more+thicker+than+forget"&num=10&newwindow=1&client=opera&sca_esv=05e16821a1d41d04&sxsrf=AHTn8zr3uCyTq510EFQ6v8w--WNCllSyUw:1746599662545&ei=7v4aaNqOIf3Vp84PkNirkA4&start=80&sa=N&sstk=Af40H4XgsHGfY0aiWrsXgh7kf-Hqx_Ja0Bs7qw7WxiriCMeYKOiAGBrfN2oThlSQty1NpMLSOMba opTUNd_IPXIVYNhqxBHadnAKYw&ved=2ahUKEwjavc3j3pCNAxX96skDHRDsCuIQ8tMDegQIWhAS&biw=1031&bih=743&dpr=1.5#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:c1901dda,vid:fSXxH-91aGc,st:0

[Danik 2016]

Charming ee poem! Renaissance voices seem to ring here:https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Love_is_a_fire_whose_flame_doth_burn_unseen


"Musicians wrestle everywhere --" by Emily Dickinson

https://allpoetry.com/Musicians-wrestle-everywhere

[tailor STATELY]

Wonderful translation of a Petrarchan sonnet by Luís de Camões (Portuguese: https://www.culturagenial.com/poema-amor-e-chama-que-arde-sem-se-ver-de-luis-vaz-de-camoes/ :)

Beautiful wrestle with a poem by dear Emily... Enjoyed :)

"neither for me honey nor the honey bee” - Sapho; (295)... https://joshuagrasso-58239.medium.com/neither-for-me-honey-nor-the-honey-bee-reading-sapphos-fragments-b51edc766bb7

[Danik 2016]

Thanks for the link in Portuguese! :) It is a famous if not the most famous of Camões sonnets. But where does Petrarca come in?
My point was that some of the antithetical love poems of the Renaissance (it hardly could have been Camões) somehow influenced ee cummings.

Sapho sadly behind inscription wall.

"Over the shoulders and slopes of the dune "."Daisies" by Bliss Carman

https://allpoetry.com/Daises

[tailor STATELY]

A Petrarchan sonnet, also known as an Italian sonnet, is a 14-line poem written in iambic pentameter and structured as an octave (8 lines) followed by a sestet (6 lines). The octave typically follows an ABBAABBA rhyme scheme, and the sestet often uses CDECDE or CDCDCD. It's named after the 14th-century Italian poet Francesco Petrarca (often anglicized as Petrarch). - Wikipedia as opposed to a Shakespearian sonnet: (ABAB CDCD EFEF GG)

Influenced... absolutely!

Sorry about Sapho's page... odd, it allowed me in... the poem is complete with the first line.

Daisies: Delightful poem :)

"Pale hands I love beside the Shalimar," - Laurence Hope/(Adela Florence Cory Nicolson); Kashmiri Song... https://allpoetry.com/Kashmiri-Song

[Danik 2016]

I see. I understood something totally different, that Camões' sonnet was a translation of a sonnet by Petrarch.


"QUEEN of my Life, who gave me for my song"."A Song of Parting" by Edith Nesbit

https://allpoetry.com/A-Song-Of-Parting

[tailor STATELY]

Mostly tender ways of parting... Enjoyed :)

"RISE, O days, from your fathomless deeps, till you loftier
and fiercer sweep! - Walt Whitman; RISE O DAYS FROM YOUR FATHOM-
LESS DEEPS... https://whitmanarchive.org/item/ppp.00473_00635

[Danik 2016]

Very Whitman. Grandiose and intense. Enjoyed!


"Still must the poet as of old,"."To Kathleen" by Edna Millay


https://www.poetrycat.com/edna-st-vincent-millay/to-kathleen

[tailor STATELY]

Enjoyed :) Found a summary at AllPoetry: https://allpoetry.com/To-Kathleen

"Too happy Time dissolves" - Emily Dickinson; Too happy Time dissolves itself... https://allpoetry.com/poem/15109021-Too-happy-Time-dissolves-itself-by-Emily-Dickinson

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed the summary on E M's poem.


About Happiness (English lyrics)

https://www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/Brazil-Beat/A-Felicidade/translation/english
The original song by Antonio Jobin and lyrics by poet Vinicius de Moraes
https://www.letras.mus.br/tom-jobim/53/

"Under a daisied bank"."The Milkmaid" by Thomas Hardy
https://www.poetrycat.com/thomas-hardy/the-milkmaid

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"Happiness is like a drop / Of dew on a flower petal / It shines, serenely / Then, smoothly, it oscillates / And falls, like a tear of love" :)

Link said I had an ad blocker on (I don't think so?)... used this link: https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&q=A+Felicidade%0D%0ATom+Jobim%0D%0ALetra%0D%0ASign ificado%0D%0A%0D%0ATraduções%0D%0ATristeza+não+te m+fim+(tristeza+não+tem+fim)%0D%0AFelicidade+sim%0 D%0A%0D%0AA+felicidade+é+como+a+pluma%0D%0AQue+o+v ento+vai+levando+pelo+ar%0D%0AVoa+tão+leve%2C+mas+ tem+a+vida+breve%0D%0APrecisa+que+haja+vento+sem+p arar%0D%0A%0D%0AA+felicidade+do+pobre+parece%0D%0A A+grande+ilusão+do+carnaval%0D%0AA+gente+trabalha+ o+ano+inteiro%0D%0APor+um+momento+de+sonho%2C+pra+ fazer+a+fantasia%0D%0ADe+rei%2C+ou+de+pirata%2C+ou +jardineira%0D%0AE+tudo+se+acabar+na+quarta-feira%0D%0A%0D%0ATristeza+não+tem+fim%0D%0AFelicid ade+sim%0D%0ATristeza+não+tem+fim%0D%0AFelicidade+ sim%0D%0A%0D%0AA+felicidade+é+como+a+gota+de+orval ho+numa+pétala+de+flor%0D%0ABrilha+tranquila%0D%0A Depois%2C+de+leve+oscila%0D%0AE+cai+como+uma+lágri ma+de+amor%0D%0A%0D%0AA+minha+felicidade+está+sonh ando%0D%0ANos+olhos+da+minha+namorada%0D%0AÉ+como+ esta+noite+passando%2C+passando%0D%0AEm+busca+da+m adrugada%0D%0AFalem+baixo%2C+por+favor%0D%0APra+qu e+ela+acorde+alegre+como+o+dia%0D%0AOferecendo+bei jos+de+amor%0D%0A%0D%0ATristeza+não+tem+fim%0D%0AT risteza+não+tem+fim%0D%0ATristeza+não+tem+fim%0D%0 ATristeza+não+tem+fim%0D%0ATristeza+não+tem+fim%0D %0ATristeza+não+tem+fim%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0AAdiciona r+aos+favoritos%0D%0A%0D%0AAdicionar+à+playlist%0 D%0A%0D%0ATamanho+do+texto%0D%0ACifra%0D%0AImprim ir%0D%0ACorrigir%0D%0A%0D%0ARolagem+automática%0D %0A%0D%0A%0D%0AComposição%3A+Antonio+Carlos+Jobi m+%2F+Vinícius+de+Moraes.+Essa+informação+está+err ada%3F+Nos+avise.%0D%0ALegendado+por+KKZINHO+e+Ant u00c3u00b4nio.+Revisões+por+3+pessoas+.+Viu+algum+ erro%3F+Envie+uma+revisão.%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D %0A%0D%0ARestaurar%0D%0A%0D%0AAplicar%0D%0A%0D% 0A%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0ALetras+Academy%0D%0A%0D%0A Comentários+via+Facebook%0D%0AComentários%0D%0AEnv ie+dúvidas%2C+explicações+e+curiosidades+sobre+a+l etra%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0APosts+relacionados%0D%0A%0 D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0AMais+ouvidas+de+Tom+Jobim %0D%0AGarota+de+Ipanema%0D%0AChega+de+Saudade%0D%0 AWave%0D%0AEu+Sei+Que+Vou+Te+Amar%0D%0APela+Luz+Do s+Olhos+Teus+(part.+Miúcha)%0D%0AÁguas+de+Março%0D %0ACorcovado%0D%0ASamba+do+Avião%0D%0ADindi%0D%0AT he+Girl+From+Ipanema+(feat.+Frank+Sinatra)%0D%0AA+ Felicidade%0D%0AÁgua+de+Beber%0D%0ASe+Todos+Fossem +Iguais+A+Você%0D%0ALigia%0D%0ARetrato+Em+Branco+e +Preto%0D%0ASamba+de+Uma+Nota+Só%0D%0ALuiza%0D%0AF alando+de+Amor%0D%0AEu+Não+Existo+Sem+Você%0D%0AEs trada+do+Sol%0D%0APlaylists+relacionadas%0D%0A%0D %0A+%0D%0A%0D%0A+%0D%0A%0D%0A+%0D%0A%0D%0A+%0D% 0AMais+acessados%0D%0ATodos%0D%0ARock%0D%0AGospel% 0D%0ASertanejo%0D%0A%0D%0AMais%0D%0AJudas%0D%0ALa dy+Gaga%0D%0AAbracadabra%0D%0ALady+Gaga%0D%0AShall ow+(feat.+Bradley+Cooper)%0D%0ALady+Gaga%0D%0ABorn +This+Way%0D%0ALady+Gaga%0D%0ADie+With+A+Smile+(fe at.+Bruno+Mars)%0D%0ALady+Gaga%0D%0ABad+Romance%0D %0ALady+Gaga%0D%0AVanish+Into+You%0D%0ALady+Gaga%0 D%0AOrdinary%0D%0AAlex+Warren%0D%0APoker+Face%0D%0 ALady+Gaga%0D%0AAlejandro%0D%0ALady+Gaga%0D%0A%0D %0ALady+Gaga%0D%0A%0D%0AHarpa+Cristã%0D%0A%0D%0A Músicas+Católicas%0D%0A%0D%0Aplay%0D%0A%0D%0A+ opções+modo+teatro+tela+cheia++%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0 A%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0AAssine+o+Letras+e+c onte+com+novas+opções+para+navegar+sem+limites%0D% 0ASaiba+mais%0D%0APágina+Inicial%0D%0ABossa+Nova%0 D%0ATom+Jobim%0D%0AA+Felicidade%0D%0ATodos+os+arti stas%0D%0AA%0D%0AB%0D%0AC%0D%0AD%0D%0AE%0D%0AF%0D% 0AG%0D%0AH%0D%0AI%0D%0AJ%0D%0AK%0D%0AL%0D%0AM%0D%0 AN%0D%0AO%0D%0AP%0D%0AQ%0D%0AR%0D%0AS%0D%0AT%0D%0A U%0D%0AV%0D%0AW%0D%0AX%0D%0AY%0D%0AZ%0D%0A%23%0D%0 AMúsicas%0D%0ATop+músicas%0D%0ATop+artistas%0D%0AT op+álbuns%0D%0AAtualizações%0D%0ALançamentos%0D%0A Playlists+do+Letras%0D%0AParticipe%0D%0ACrie+seu+p erfil+musical%0D%0AEnvie+álbuns%0D%0AEnvie+letras% 0D%0ACorreções+de+letras%0D%0AAssine+o+Letras%0D%0 ASobre+o+site%0D%0AAjuda%0D%0ATermos+de+uso+e+polí tica+de+privacidade%0D%0ATermos+de+uso+do+Letras+A cademy%0D%0APadrões+para+envios%0D%0ATrabalhe+cono sco%0D%0AAplicativos%0D%0AExtensão%0D%0ALocalizaçã o+e+idioma%0D%0A%0D%0ABrasil%0D%0A%0D%0APortuguê s%0D%0AAparência%0D%0A%0D%0AAutomático%0D%0A%0D% 0AClaro%0D%0A%0D%0AEscuro%0D%0ASiga+o+Letras%0D%0 Ainstagram%0D%0Aletrasmusbr%0D%0Atiktok%0D%0Aletra s%0D%0Ayoutube%0D%0Aletrasmusbr%0D%0Afacebook%0D%0 Aletrasmusbr%0D%0Ax%0D%0Aletras%0D%0Apinterest%0D% 0Aletrasmusbr%0D%0Alinkedin%0D%0Aletras%0D%0AMúsic a+começa+com+letras%0D%0A©+2003+-+2025%2C+3.6+milhões+de+letras+de+músicas%0D%0AFei to+com%0D%0Aamor%0D%0Aem+todo+o+Brasil%0D%0A&sourceid=opera&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:5a916c46,vid:JVNQh1BW5SQ,st:0

Enjoyed :) but who's Fred ?

"Venus, redress a wrong thats done" - William Cartwright; A Complaint against Cupid... https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=103706

[Danik 2016]

Those link are all very complicated. I have an add blocker.

Fred seems to be the guy the milkmaid would like to date who likes another girl.

Lol! Charming complaint!


"We sailed..."."Honeybee, Inner Hebrides" by Valerie Gillies

https://poetryarchive.org/poem/honeybee-inner-hebrides/






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from The Cream of the Well: New and Selected Poems (Luath Press, 2014), © Valerie Gillies 2014, used by permission of the author.

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[tailor STATELY]

Ah, Fred, lol.

Enjoyed this honeybee tale :)

Poem(s) by a poet with an 'x' in their name:

"The blue work clothes are covered in grease" - Xiao Hai; We Come from the Workshop... https://worldliteraturetoday.org/2021/spring/two-chinese-working-class-poems-xiao-hai

[Danik 2016]

Forgive the untidy last post. I tried to correct it and the poem threatened to disappear.

A legit communist poems. :)

"You've asked me what the lobster is weaving there with"."Enigmas" by Pablo Neruda.
https://allpoetry.com/Enigmas

[tailor STATELY]

Interesting poem... Pablo Neruda channeling Jacques Cousteau... Enjoyed :)

Poem(s) by a poet with a 'z' AND an 'x' in their name:

"The mountains are bathed in spring’s radiance." - Zhang Xu; ‘Guest in the Mountain’《山中留客》... https://ink-and-brush.com/zhang-xu-calligrapher/

[Danik 2016]

Delicate poem! He was also famous for his calligraphy and his eccentricity!


"And God stepped out on space,"The Creation" by James Weldon Johnson

https://allpoetry.com/poem/8526373-The-Creation-by-James-Weldon-Johnson

[tailor STATELY]

Enjoyed this revised creation story :)

"Buildings above the leafless trees" - Sara Teasdale; Central Park At Dusk... https://allpoetry.com/Central-Park-At-Dusk

[Danik 2016]

Sara Teasdale is so romantic. This poem reminds me of the beginning of one of the most famous Goethe poems, "The Nightsong of the Wanderer". The context is different, nature is preparing to rest:

https://sites.google.com/site/germanliterature/18th-century/goethe/goethe-poetry/wandrers-nachtlied-wanderer-s-night-song (second poem).

"Cats sleep anywhere, any table, any chair."."Cats sleep anywhere, any table, any chair." by Eleanor Farjeon
https://huasaicats.com/catpoems/

[tailor STATELY]

Enjoyed Goethe's poem... I would have taken poetic license and rendered the last line "You too shall rest.

Love, love, Eleanor's cat poem :) Will have to find time today to read the rest of the poets' cat poems later :)

"Daily the fair Sultan's daughter" - Heinrich Heine; The Asra... https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=37833

Summary: https://allpoetry.com/Der-Asra

[Danik 2016]

I fully agree with you. In fhe English version the "too" in the second position sounds more natural.

Rather ambivalent about this narrative poem.

"Every time I kiss you"."Every Time I Kiss You" by Nizar Qabbani
https://www.best-poems.net/nizar_qabbani/every_time_i_kiss_you_by_nizar_qabbani.html

[tailor STATELY]

Very evocative... Enjoyed :)

"Fancy! Nymph, that loves to lye" - John Dyer; Towy Landscape... https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=537794

Wikipedia (Grongar, Hill): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grongar_Hill

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed the poem and the Wikipedia text about its context and creation.

"Great, wide, beautiful, wonderful World,"."Great, Wide, Beautiful, Wonderful World" by William Brighty Rands
https://www.poemine.com/William-Brighty-Rands/Great-Wide-Beautiful-Wonderful-World.html
https://www.scribd.com/document/426082792/Great-wide-beautiful-wonderful-world

[tailor STATELY]

Wonderful poem :) Enjoyed the commentary.

"HARD 'tis on a fox's traces" - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; The Fox And The Huntsman... https://allpoetry.com/The-Fox-And-The-Huntsman

[Danik 2016]

Curious poem by Goethe. It is easier to understand in German.


"in this dream world"."Dreams" by Taigu Ryokan
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8602755-Dreams-by-Taigu-Ryokan

[tailor STATELY]

Wonderful haiku :)

"Just as a flower, in lovely night," - Friedrich (or Fritz) Lienhard; Faith/Wie eine Blume in milder Nacht... https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=51312

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed the poem, but the poet was not as nice as the poem makes suppose: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Lienhard



"KNOWING our needs, hardly knowing our powers,"."A Last Appeal" by Edith Nesbit
https://allpoetry.com/A-Last-Appeal

[tailor STATELY]

Eeesh... you're right re: FL

"Light boat south hill go" - Wang Wei; South Hill... https://mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-33290

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed "South Hill ".


"Music curls"."Polyphony in a Cathedral" by A Tessimond
https://allpoetry.com/Polyphony-In-A-Cathedral

[tailor STATELY]

Enjoyed :)

"No ripple stirs the water," - Sophie M. Almon-Hensley; Noon... https://www.simple-poetry.com/poems/noon-53764426941

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed the bucolic poem.


"O simple Nature, how I do delight"."Nature" by John Clare
https://www.simple-poetry.com/poems/nature-73404323210

There occurs me a dialogue between this poem and another famous Goethe poem turned into a song by Schubert:
https://oxfordsong.org/song/heidenr%C3%B6slein

[tailor STATELY]

Wonderful thoughts on thoughts of nature :)

Delightful song !

"Perhaps we go with wind and cloud and sun," - Stephen Vincent Benét; Nos Immortales... https://www.simple-poetry.com/poems/nos-immortales-13058820834

[Danik 2016]

Man mingling with nature.

Poem by a poet with "Q" in his name.

"The bowers lost in mist,"Treading on Grass - At an Inn of Chenzhou- Poetry of Qin Gua
https://www.cn-poetry.com/qinguan-poems/inn-of-chenzhou.html
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[tailor STATELY]

A poem of longing from banishment... Enjoyed :)

"Roses, ah, how fair ye be ! " - Theodore Martin; Depression... https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=55152

[Danik 2016]

Love and fading roses.

""She can't be unhappy," you said,"."Snowfall " by Sara Teasdale
https://allpoetry.com/Snowfall

[tailor STATELY]

Sad poem and true... wonderful use of language... Enjoyed :)

"The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes." - Czeslaw Milosz; Account... https://www.poetrycat.com/czeslaw-milosz/account

[Danik 2016]

Milosz makes one think.



"Unmindful of the roses,"One Sea-Side Grave" by Christina Georgina Rossetti
https://www.poetrycat.com/christina-georgina-rossetti/one-sea-side-grave

[tailor STATELY]

A bit cryptic for me... found a summary at AllPoetry: https://allpoetry.com/One-Sea-Side-Grave... enjoyed :)

"Vulcan! hear your glorious task;" - Thomas Moore; Odes Of Anacreon - Ode IV... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/thomas-moore/odes-of-anacreon-ode-iv-26516

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed the ode!

"Whisk!--away in the sun"."Tony" by Clara Doty Bates
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8626397-Tony-by-Clara-Doty-Bates

[tailor STATELY]

Delightful poem about Tony... Enjoyed :)

Poem by a poet with an 'x' in their name:

"In winter, sprawled on soft cushions," - Xenophanes; War Memories... https://allpoetry.com/War-Memories

[Danik 2016]

The curious about these war horrors is how they are toned down and banalized. Enjoyed!



"Your troubles shrink not, though I feel them less"."A Confession To A Friend In Trouble" by Thomas Hardy
https://allpoetry.com/A-Confession-To-A-Friend-In-Trouble

[tailor STATELY]

Alas yes re: war.

Enjoyed :) I would like to believe I am not as stoic as my forbearers were with regards to empathy.

Poem by a poet with a 'z' in their name:

"frost on grass" - Zaishiki; frost on grass... https://allpoetry.com/Zaishiki

[Danik 2016]

Liked Zaishiki's poem very much! Sadly, found no more information in the net about this interesting poet.


""At ten a.m. the young housewife"."The Young Housewife" by William Carlos Williams
https://allpoetry.com/The-Young-Housewife

[tailor STATELY]

Interesting vignette... Enjoyed WCW's poem :)

"Brief, on a flying night," - Alice Christina Meynell; Chimes... https://allpoetry.com/poem/8475799-Chimes-by-Alice-Meynell

[Danik 2016]

Charming poem. The bells flight transforms itself until it becomes poetry.



"Center of all centers, core of cores,"."Buddha in Glory" by Rainer Maria Rilke
https://allpoetry.com/Buddha-in-Glory

[tailor STATELY]

"infinite peace"... Enjoyed :)

"Dainty are birds’ footprints in the snow," - Eduard Mörike; Zierlich ist des Vogels Tritt im Schnee / Hunter's Song... https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=134719

[Danik 2016]

A cute poem! Mörike is mostly forgotten today, I think. The translator took some liberties with the text, to adequate it to the song,

"Eagle-heart, child-heart, bonnie lad o' dreams,"."Love And Art." by Charles Hamilton Musgrove
https://allpoetry.com/Love-And-Art

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More about Mörike (we can't have him be forgotten): https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/literature-and-writing/poetry-morike-eduard-morike

Translation - Yes.

A poem of choices: "The poem's theme of choosing between two compelling but ultimately incompatible forces (love and art) resonates with other Romantic works."... Enjoyed :)

"Far are the shades of Arabia," - Walter de la Mare; Arabia... https://allpoetry.com/Arabia

[Danik 2016]

Thanks! This poem about "the golden middle way" is probably his most famous.I once knew it by heart.
Wonderful images, but I wonder if our friend has ever been to Arabia. "Lush green" and what about the deserts?


"Gentle Spring! - in sunshine clad,"."Spring." by William Henry Giles Kingston

https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/william-henry-giles-kingston/spring-21834

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"Lord, send what pleaseth Thee! Let it be weal or woe; Thy hands give both, and so Either contenteth me. But, Lord, whichever Thou giv’st, pain or pleasure, O do not drench me! In sweet mid-measure Lieth true plenty." :)

I think WdlM was romanticizing quite a bit.

Enjoyed this comparison of Winter & Spring :)

"How soft the night wind strokes the meadow grasses" - Eduard Mörike; A Song For Two In The Night... https://allpoetry.com/A-Song-For-Two-In-The-Night

[Danik 2016]

I think I found the song but I can listen to it only tomorrow because it is near midnight.

True about WdlM.

A very romantic poem!

"I'd like to be off to France,"."On Journey " by Sakutaro Hagiwara
https://allpoetry.com/On-Journey

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A poem of longing and yet contentment in the poet's condition in a time of societal upheaval. Enjoyed :)

"Just a span and half a span" - Walter de la Mare; A Midget... https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=22634

[Danik 2016]

Here is the song called "Prayer":https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVGhQNyCSYk&t=116s

"Keen in his blood ran the old mad desire"."The Knight-Errant" by Virna Sheard
https://allpoetry.com/The-Knight-Errant

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Love the prayer; also found here with English lyrics and the video playing in German if selected :)

We need more people like the knight: "The knight's unwavering belief in truth and justice is juxtaposed with the mundanity of city life, where his chivalrous actions are overlooked. This contrast highlights the loss of idealistic values and the prevalence of pragmatism." Enjoyed :)

"Like to the falling of a star," - Henry King; Sic Vita (Such is Life)... https://allpoetry.com/poem/8511685-Sic-Vita-by-Henry-King

[Danik 2016]

:)

True!Idealism seems dead and buried.

"Maidy with the laughing eyes"."Maidy" by Maria Frances Cecília Cowper
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8575299-Maidy-by-Maria-Frances-Cecilia-Cowper

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Charming poem :)

"Not a breath of air" - William Wordsworth; Airey-Force Valley... https://www.poetrycat.com/william-wordsworth/airey-force-valley

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed this poetic landscape!


"O aptly named, Illustrious One!"."Mystical Rose, Pray For Us!" by Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/rosanna-eleanor-leprohon/mystical-rose-pray-for-us-23736

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An ode to a Mystical Rose... Enjoyed :)

"Prayer is the little implement" - Emily Dickinson; Prayer is the little implement... https://allpoetry.com/Prayer-is-the-little-implement

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed ED'S poem.


Poem by a poet with name beginning with "Q":

"Delicate clouds tease skillfully". "The Fairy of the Magpie Bridge", by Qin Guan
https://www.wukongsch.com/blog/chinese-poems-post-37330/

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Love this short fanciful poem... also enjoyed the summary and the many other lovely poems :)

"River, river, little river!" - Caroline Ann Bowles; The River... https://tnpsc.academy/unit/the-river/?srsltid=AfmBOoohMqYGCcLwVGfYJaSWpsQ6rnG4WV_mEw_PK J-FpdQpboPb02jz

[Danik 2016]

Cute poem that sumarizes the lives of rivers and humans.


"Snowdrift of the mountains,"."A Rover's Song" by William Bliss Carman
https://www.poetrycat.com/william-bliss-carman/a-rovers-song

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"They" can have the kingdoms but the protagonist only desires Joscelyn... Enjoyed :)

"There is something in the autumn that is native to my blood—" - Bliss William Carman; A Vagabond Song... https://allpoetry.com/A-Vagabond-Song

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed the autumn poem!

"Under black yew-trees, in the shade,"."Owls" by Charles Baudelaire
https://allpoetry.com/The-Owls

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Enjoyed the contrast of owl and man... persist to be still :)

"Vine leaves rustled, moonbeams shone," - George Augustus Baker, Jr.; An Afterthought.... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/george-augustus-baker-jr/an-afterthought-34927

[Danik 2016]

Sad, nostalgic romanticism.


"Whilst the moon decks herself in Neptune's glass"."The Moon and Sea" by George Darley

https://allpoetry.com/The-Moon-And-Sea

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Celestial vanity... Enjoyed :)

Poem by a poet with both an 'x' and 'z' in their name (and maybe a q' to start the first line {a trifecta!}) :) :

"Quietly now I leave the Cam," - Xu Zhimo; Leaving the Revisited Cambridge... http://ssb22.user.srcf.net/poem/

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed Xu Zhimo's Cam poem.


"You, the choice minions of the proud-lipped nine"."The Anonymous Poet" by George Darley
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8494137-The-Anonymous-Poet-by-George-Darley

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Lol... a poet who seeks not for fame... Enjoyed :)

Poem by a poet whose name has a 'z' in it (in this case, two):

"The soldier under earth shall joy in night -" - Zinaida Lazda; First Night... https://allpoetry.com/Zinaida-Lazda

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed this war poem. Tried to learn more about Zinaida, but only found a Wikipedia page in her own language. The curious thing about this Latvian poet of the first half of 20C is that she died in Salem, Oregon, so she probably spent the end of her life there but no English information about her.


"A languid atmosphere, a lazy breeze,"."A Summer Afternoon" by James Riley
https://allpoetry.com/A-Summer-Afternoon

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Zinaida: I found a page that offered an English translation: https://www-womage-lv.translate.goog/en/persons/zinaida-lazda?_x_tr_sl=lv&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc

Wonderful poem: "A dreamy day; and tranquilly I lie / At anchor from all storms of mental strain; / With absent vision, gazing at the sky, / "Like one that hears it rain."" :)

""Begone, thou fond presumptuous Elf,"" - William Wordsworth; The Waterfall And The Eglantine... https://www.simple-poetry.com/poems/the-waterfall-and-the-eglantine-23881172358

[Danik 2016]

Thanks, quite a lot of information on Zinaida you got there. No German Wikipedia page though she lived also in Germany.

Ai, sorry for the gentle Eglantine? That comes when one as an Eglantine tampers with Waterfalls.Enjoyed.!


"COME, Holy Spirit, love divine,"."The Retrospect" by Maria Frances Cecília Cowper
https://allpoetry.com/The-Retrospect

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Wonderful devotional poem :)

"Doubt Me! My Dim Companion!" - Emily Dickinson; Doubt Me! My Dim Companion!... https://allpoetry.com/Doubt-Me!-My-Dim-Companion!

[Danik 2016]

Strikes me as a bit ironic, this poem of ED. A poetic DR with an invisible lover? Enjoyed!


"Enchantress, farewell, who so oft hast decoy'd me,"Farewell to the Muse" by Sir Walter Scott
https://allpoetry.com/Farewell-to-the-Muse

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Odd... I can't get back to ED's poem through the link now :( Through EliteSkills found this snippet: ""Doubt Me! My Dim Companion!" was written in the later years of Dickinson's life, and it reflects her growing preoccupation with themes of mortality, doubt, and faith. It is one of many poems in which she grapples with the nature of God, the meaning of life, and the inevitability of death."...

The loss of a muse... Enjoyed :)

"Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray," - Abraham Lincoln; Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray... https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=108954

[Danik 2016]

I couldn't also access ED'S poem through the link, but by Google seach.

Didn't imagine Lincoln writing poetry. But this looks like a speech distributed in verses. Enjoyed though!

"God is the refuge of his saints,"."Psalm 46, Part1" by Isaac Watts

https://allpoetry.com/Psalm-46--part-1

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More poetry by Abraham Lincoln: https://allpoetry.com/Abraham-Lincoln

Wonderful poem... Enjoyed. One of the snippets from Psalm 46 is most memorable: Ps 46:10 "Be still, and know that I am God" :)

"High above, from a jade chamber, songs float half-way to heaven," - Gu Kuang; A Palace Poem... https://www.cn-poetry.com/gukuang-poems/palace-poem.html

[Danik 2016]

Thanks! They confer another image of Lincoln.
Wonderful poem by Gu Kuang and fluent translation


"it's 1962 March 28th"."Things I Didn't Know I Loved" by Nazim Hikmet
https://allpoetry.com/Things-I-Didn't-Know-I-Loved

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Enjoyed this frenetic love fest :)

"Just because we've torn their statues down," - Constantine P Cavafy; Ionian Song... https://allpoetry.com/Ionian-Song

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed this powerfull poem.



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

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Delightful tale of a pelican family :) I love to watch the pelicans fly by the sea shore... been too long.

"Long vast shapes...cooled and flushed through with darkness...." - Lola Ridge; Wall Street At Night... https://allpoetry.com/poem/13753364-Wall-Street-At-Night-by-Lola-Ridge

[Danik 2016]

:)

Loved that poem!

"Men die…"."Dreams" by Lola Ridge
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8520251-Dreams-by-Lola-Ridge

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I like the idea that dreams exist unto themselves and persist even when the dreamer dies... Enjoyed :)

"Now sunk the sun, now twilight sunk, and Night" - John Brown; A Rhapsody; written at the Lakes in Westmorland... https://www.poetryexplorer.net/poem.php?id=10042145

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed this wonderful nature poem! Some problems with the site. Most poems aren't available.


"One dreary September day"."Manuel Komninos" by Constantine P Kavafy
https://allpoetry.com/Manuel-Komninos

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Loved the emoji in the original Greek, lol. Enjoyed :) While no emperor I too hope to be dressed modestly in my faith in that manner.

"Prayer the church's banquet, angel's age, - George Herbert; Prayer (I)... https://karenswallowprior.substack.com/p/george-herbert-prayer-i

[Danik 2016]

Lol! Who put that emoji there?

Love this kind of playing with contrasts. Enjoyed this Renaissance poem.

A poem from a poet with "Q" in his name:

"One night's east wind adorns a"."Green Jade Cup-Lantem Festival" by Xin Qiji
https://www.cn-poetry.com/xinqiji-poems/lantem-festival.html

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Dreamy poem... Enjoyed :)

"Remember me when I am gone away," - Christina Georgina Rossetti; Remember... https://allpoetry.com/poem/8449183-Remember-by-Christina-Georgina-Rossetti

[Danik 2016]

Good poem but English language poetry loves dwelling about themes related to death.

"Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you,"."At North Farm" by John Ashbery
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2007/01/16/at-north-farm-by-john-ashbery/

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Too true.

Enigmatic poem... found this: https://www.poetryexplorer.net/exp.php?id=12020011
I'm thinking it's my dear long lost cat Figaro :)

"Too happy Time dissolves" - Emily Dickinson; Too happy Time dissolves itself... https://allpoetry.com/poem/15109021-Too-happy-Time-dissolves-itself-by-Emily-Dickinson

[Danik 2016]

Aaaiiii!Enjoyed the analysis, looks human made. Interesting site but I have some difficulty surfing in it. Links open slowly or not at all

True poem by ED.

"Up to the sky the birdman flew"."The Paths Of Rashness" by Ringgold Wilmer Lardner
https://www.poetrycat.com/ringgold-wilmer-lardner/the-paths-of-rashness

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Enjoyed this parable poem. A google query came up with this statement: "A classic and wry poem on parenting"... Enjoyed :)

"View me, Lord, a work of thine!" - Thomas Campion; View Me, Lord, a Work of Thine... https://allpoetry.com/View-Me,-Lord,-a-Work-of-Thine

[Danik 2016]

Parenting? Lol, but it's possible.

Very intense poem!

"Wind, just arisen -"Dawn Wind" by Lola Ridge
https://allpoetry.com/Dawn-Wind

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Another incredible poem by Lola Ridge :)

Poem by a poet with an 'x' in their name:

"Flowers bloom:" - Xue Tao; Gazing at Spring... https://allpoetry.com/Gazing-at-Spring

[Danik 2016]

Beautiful poem! Reminds me so much of angliholic!


"Yesterday, for a long while,"."Slant" by Stephen Dunn
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2011/08/27/slant-by-stephen-dunn/

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Yes! Miss him too.

"I was just whispering into her mouth." Love this poem :)

Poem by a poet with a 'z' in their name:

"Who’s that dancing on the moonlight air," - Zora Bernice May Cross; The Fairie's Fair... https://allpoetry.com/The-Fairie's-Fair

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed this playful poem with its internal rimes.

"A master deep-eyed"."The Master of the Dance" by Vachel Lindsay
https://allpoetry.com/The-Master-Of-The-Dance

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Curious poem... one can hear VL chant and gesticulate and bellow in parts of the poem... Enjoyed also the summary :)

"Beyond the crooked apple-bough" - Rosamund Marriott Watson; The new moon... https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=61250

[Danik 2016]

:)

Charming song. By the way, is there a way of hearing these song-poems of this site

"Cruel of heart, lay down my song,"."To Those Without Pity" by Edna Millay
https://allpoetry.com/To-Those-Without-Pity

[Danik 2016]

:)

Charming song. By the way, is there a way of hearing these song-poems of this site

"Cruel of heart, lay down my song,"."To Those Without Pity" by Edna Millay
https://allpoetry.com/To-Those-Without-Pity

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Most of the texts I've chosen were poems before music was put to them by a later artist... the poem by RMW was set to music by Cyril Meir Scott, here is the original poem included with the music score: http://en.instr.scorser.com/D/667909.html. Finding the music played is problematic on the web... some is popular and available, most are not apparently.


Scott’s verse is intensely romantic, one of his favourite poets being Ernest Dowson (1867-1900), many of whose poems he set to music. What he said of Dowson could apply equally well to his own verse: “Although passion is not missing from some of Dowson’s lyrics, it is always enshrouded in an atmosphere of roses and violets, of softness and shadows”. https://www.cyrilscott.net/cyrilscott-author-poet-philosopher

A sample of CS's music... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7hconIT-XM

EM: Biting poem for anyone who might have criticized her work in the past and a warning for those who do so in the future... Enjoyed :)

"Delight is as the flight —" - Emily Dickinson; Delight is as the flight /
257... https://allpoetry.com/Delight-is-as-the-flight

[Danik 2016]

Thanks for your research on the poem of RMS! :)
Loved EDs poem about transience.


"Even the shrewd and bitter,"."Prologue To Rhymes To Be Traded For Bread" by Vachel Lindsay
https://allpoetry.com/Prologue-To-Rhymes-To-Be-Traded-For-Bread

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The "plight of a minstrel"... Enjoyed :)

"From a magician's midnight sleeve" - Elizabeth Bishop; Late Air... https://voetica.com/poem/629

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed Elisabeth Bishop's sensorial poem.

"Gone were but the Winter,"."Spring Quiet" by Cristina G. Rossetti
https://allpoetry.com/Spring-Quiet

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Very sparse lines syllabically with no real adherence to rhyme heralding Spring... Enjoyed :)

"Here are crocuses, white, gold, grey!" - Walter De La Mere; O Dear Me!... https://www.simple-poetry.com/poems/o-dear-me-46983482253

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed the playful rhymes!


"I find myself most alone "."Everybody’s Autobiograph by Tracy K. Smith
https://poets.org/poem/everybodys-autobiography

PS-This is the poet that participated in the poetry festival here, in the theater in front of my building some weeks ago.

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Wonderful poem... love the structure: the poem bottom to top almost a mirror of the poem top to bottom... Enjoyed :)

"Joy shakes me like the wind that lifts a sail," - Clarissa Scott Delany; Joy #1... https://getlitanthology.org/poemdetail/353/

[Danik 2016]

:) Liked the poem, but didn't notice this mirrored structure.

Wonderful poem, it's a pity Clarissa died so young!

"Kept up by relays of generations young"."Jack Roy" by Hermam Melville
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/herman-melville/jack-roy-25972

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A rollicking sea shanty by the master of Moby Dick! Enjoyed :)

"Let others probe the mystery if they can." - Theodore Roethke; The Right Thing... https://allpoetry.com/The-Right-Thing

[Danik 2016]

Site still wobly. Sometimes it is possible to post, sometimes not.


Sounds a bit like a modified villanelle. Enjoyed.

"Men know what is happening now."."But Wise Men Perceive Aproaching things" by Constantine Cavafy
https://allpoetry.com/But-Wise-Men-Perceive-Approaching-Things

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Found a summary on AllPoetry: https://allpoetry.com/poem/14328965-But-The-Wise-Perceive-Things-About-To-Happen-by-Constantine-P-Cavafy Enjoyed :)

"now all the fingers of this tree(darling)have" - e.e. cummings; now all the fingers of this tree(darling)have... https://www.tumblr.com/r3adingr00m/187847298188/now-all-the-fingers-of-this-treedarlinghave

[Danik 2016]

Curious thing: my link is also from all poetry with Greek original but no summary.

Loved this cummings poem: a new favorite.

"Oh I have sown my love so wide"."After Parting" by Sara Teasdale.

https://allpoetry.com/After-Parting

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Short, direct, tender and touching, and real... Enjoyed :)

"Poets make pets of pretty, docile words:" - Elinor Wylie; Pretty Words... https://www.thereader.org.uk/featured-poem-pretty-words-by-elinor-wylie/

[Danik 2016]

Charming poem with introduction about words as poetic tools!


A poem of a poet with "Q"in his name:
"In the third month of autumn it blows down the leaves,". "Wind" by Li Qiao
http://chinese-poems.com/lq1.html
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_poetry

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Perhaps a metaphor of 'wind'? or possibly a misinterpretation?: "On the river, waves of a thousand feet,". Couldn't find Li Qiao in the wiki (found him here: https://www.cn-poetry.com/liqiao-poems/ ), but enjoyed the colorful and sometimes tragic history of poetry in China :)

A poem alluding to a Robin's song:

"Redbreast, early in the morning" - Emily Brontë; Redbreast, Early in the morning... https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/redbreast-early-morning

[Danik 2016]

I don't think it is a misinterpretation. The high waves like the rest seem to be caused by the wind.

Sad poem of a passionate Emily.

"Struggling, and faint, and fainter didst thou wane,"."On an Eclipse of the Moon" by Walter Savage Landor
https://allpoetry.com/On-an-Eclipse-of-the-Moon

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Wonderful poem... enjoyed the analysis :)

"Time is the feather'd thing" - Jasper Mayne; Time... https://allpoetry.com/poem/8553067-Time-by-Jasper-Mayne

[Danik 2016]

Marvelous poem! an association:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=p_B0uef6RUo
Lyrics:https://www.paroles-musique.com/eng/lyrics-Ronny-Gold-und-Silber-lieb-ich-sehr-en-translation,t1404772


"Under her dark veil she wrung her hands."."Under Her Dark Veil
A poem by Anna Akhmatova
https://allpoetry.com/poem/14327866-Under-Her-Dark-Veil-by-Anna-Akhmatova

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"be it the silver shine of the moon, be it the gold of the stars," Enjoyed the song & lyrics :)

A poem of tormented emotions... enjoyed :)

"V walking in tight little circles," - stevetasane; V... https://stevetasane.wordpress.com/v-poem/

[Danik 2016]

A touching poem."V" is so much alive,


"- What are you rocking, little one?"."What are you rocking?" by Mihai Eminescu
https://allpoetry.com/Mihai-Eminescu

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Found the poem here: https://allpoetry.com/Ce-te-Legeni! Full of metaphor; a poem of longing... Enjoyed :)

Poem by a poet with an 'x' in their name:

"With each laugh is a" - Roxxi XTc (Vixen Von krieger?); hiding... https://allpoetry.com/poem/5462087-hiding-by-Roxxi-XTc

[Danik 2016]

I see! Sorry, I put up the general Eminescu link.

Interesting poem. Liked the duality and the twist at the end.


"Yes! I have seen the ancient oak"." The Vassal's Lament for the Fallen Tree by Felicia Dorothea Heman
https://allpoetry.com/The-Vassal's-Lament-For-The-Fallen-Tree

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Enjoyed the parallelism of the poem between a young boy and an ancient oak. We've lost many an ancient oak on our property... it's always a shock and saddening. Enjoyed :)


Poem by a poet whose name has a 'z' in it:


"Before the altar burns the fragrant incense;" - Zabel Assadour; The Incense... https://allpoetry.com/The-Incense

[Danik 2016]

Wonderful poem! Enjoyed the description of the incense and the parallel between the incense and the grieving woman.


"As when the north winds keenly blow,"."Discontent" by Confucius
https://allpoetry.com/items/read_by/Confucius?kind=poem&last_i=8598355&order=&page=10

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Found your poem here: https://allpoetry.com/poem/8598321-Discontent-by-Confucius

Surmising Wei in this context:
Wei (Northern Dynasty):
A major dynasty in northern China during the period between the Western and Eastern Zhou dynasties.
The Wei dynasty was the longest-lived and most powerful of the northern dynasties.
The dynasty lasted from 386 CE to 534/535 CE.
The Wei dynasty unified China under its rule. ... google AI

Enjoyed :)

"Because there was no wind," - Amy Lowell; A Burnt Offering... https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/burnt-offering-0

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Got one of my famous colds.

Wonderful synthetic poem!
"Crass rays streaming from the vestibules;"."Flotsam" by Lola Ridge
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8520259-Flotsam-by-Lola-Ridge

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Desktop PC decided to lose the boot device... possibly after an update... had to research on my phone... finally learned a way to get into the bios and change the boot device to "default device". Still haven't repaired my laptop.

Pray your cold goes away soon.

Another poem of dystopian New York City... Incredible language used: "Nothing to guess at… / Save the darkness above / Crouching like a great cat." Enjoyed :)

"Dreamed the thong of my sandal broke." - Denise Levertov; The Broken Sandal... https://readalittlepoetry.com/2018/01/02/the-broken-sandal-by-denise-levertov/

[Danik 2016]

Congrats that you found your way. Getting into Litnet has become a daily challlenge!

Thanks!

"Enter without knocking, hard-working ant."."This morning " by Charles Simic
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2011/02/08/this-morning-by-charles-simic/

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"T" our host was sick that day in 2011: "Still sick, and consoling myself with books and poems."

I think it's been a while for a poem by Simic... "You visit the same tailors the mourners do, / Mr. Ant. I like the silence between us, / The quiet—that holy state even the rain / Knows about." Wonderful poem :) ... And yet the following is a scathing critique I just cannot fathom... http://www.cosmoetica.com/TOP109-DES106.htm

Just for balance: https://poets.org/poet/charles-simic#:~:text=About%20Simic%27s%20work%2C%20a%20re viewer,perhaps%20our%20most%20disquieting%20muse.

"Facebook, for me, is not much fun," - John Philip Drury; Social Networking (in memory of Ray Bradbury) ... https://www.versedaily.org/2021/socialnetworking.shtml

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I liked CS's poem, but I didn’t go deeply into it. A very scating critic may be right but may simply be envy. Simic seems to have a facility of seeing unusual images in every day objects, like the watermelons as green Buddhas.


Interesting poem about Facebook.

"Go, since you must, but, Dearest, know"."At Parting" by Edith Nesbithttps://allpoetry.com/At-Parting
https://allpoetry.com/At-Parting

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Beautiful poem of love and loss :)

"Have you noticed" - Paul Hostovsky; Face Mask... https://www.versedaily.org/2021/facemask.shtml

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Interesting take on the masked faces,

By the same poet:
"I love this poem"."Love Poem" by Paul Hostovsky

http://www.versedaily.org/2007/lovepoem.shtml

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Lol, I think he loved his poem... Enjoyed :)

"Juncos" - Molly Brodak; There Is Such A Thing... https://www.versedaily.org/2021/thereissuchathing.shtml

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Criptic poem, also about faces. In Portuguese "juncos" means simply "reeds".But probably the poet doesn't know that.


"King Arthur's men have come again."."King Arthur's men have come again" by Vachel Lindsay
https://allpoetry.com/King-Arthur's-Men-Have-Come-Again

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An anthem poem, however political... enjoyed :)

"Lately, I have been thinking again of the fall" - Brian Culhane; Just before, or Right after, the Fall of Rome... https://www.versedaily.org/2019/thefallofrome.shtml

[Danik 2016]

A timely poem!


"Me & my girl are leaning on the guardrail"."Pineapples on Chopsticks" by Peihe Fen
https://www.versedaily.org/2025/pineapplesonchopsticks.shtml

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A vivid poem about pineapple, and a bit more... Enjoyed :)

"No one can say I didn't warn them. We're finally afraid," - Lindsay M. D'Andrea; Premonition... https://www.versedaily.org/2025/premonition.shtml

[Danik 2016]

Absolutely to the point!

"On the deck this morning a baby rabbit—"."Refuge" by Lisa Ashley
https://www.versedaily.org/2025/refugela.shtml

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Poor bunny... Enjoyed :)

"Picture a boat whatever boat a yacht" - Shane McCrae; Petrarchan Sonnet on the Electrified Sea... https://www.versedaily.org/2024/petrarchansonnetontheelectrifiedsea.shtml

[Danik 2016]

Again a very fitting modern poem!

Poem by a poet with his name starting with "Q":
"Because you have been separated from your parents, you doodle nonsense"."Postscript" by Octavio Quintanilla
http://www.versedaily.org/2024/postscript.shtml

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Poignant and dense poem of immigration... Enjoyed.

"Ripe strawberries, strawberries ripe!" - Florence Stevenson; Ripe strawberries, strawberries ripe!... https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=130131

[Danik 2016]

Interesting poem that seems to be part of a musical about a dark episode in English History:the comdenation and execution of the young Jane Gray who reigned as Queen of Britain during nine days, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Jane_Grey. As you probably remember from school, Queen Mary who comdened Jane as traitor, was in her turn comdened and executed by her cousin Elisabeth, who then became Elisabeth l. The song itself maybe refers to the things that were sold during the executions.

"Starlight scrawls her name in fog above the creek,"."Sonnet for Lolly" by Jacob Butlett
https://www.versedaily.org/2024/sonnetforlolly.shtml

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Interesting, albeit a tragic history.

Colorful language... Enjoyed :)

"That curve" - Fernando Trujillo; The Broken Column... https://www.versedaily.org/2025/thebrokencolumn.shtml

[Danik 2016]

Interesting, but lol, I expected a poem about a broken backbone as "coluna" in Portuguese and maybe also in Spanish is the name of the backbone. Well, maybe it is. I found the Lorca poem the poem refers to:https://www.letras.mus.br/camaron-de-la-isla/383971/english.html


"Undue Significance a starving man attaches"."Undue Significance a starving man attaches"" by Emily Dickinson.
https://allpoetry.com/Undue-Significance-a-starving-man-attaches

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Enjoyed Romance de La Luna

Oddly slanted poem by Emily... thank heavens for the summary. Enjoyed :)

"Van Gogh worked with nothing in his belly but milk" - Carmen Germain; The Fixed Stars... https://www.versedaily.org/2023/thefixedstars.shtml

[Danik 2016]

Loved this poem, the connection between the stars and the paintings and the holes is unusual yet somehow convincing. Love this site you discovered with current poetry.

"When she left him he"."Man with Dog" by Max Sessner
http://www.versedaily.org/2023/manwithdog.shtml

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Delightful !... after the loss that is. A most enjoyable speculative ending :)

Poem by a poet with an 'x' in their name:

"Beaches and their weather," - Lex Runciman; What Do You Carry?... https://www.versedaily.org/2019/whatdoyoucarry.shtml

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed the poem!

"You'd think she did not love enough,"."The Thread" by Julian Orde
https://www.versedaily.org/2024/thethread.shtml

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Interesting tension: "But taut and trembling as the string / Teased by a bow on violin / Until it screams." The thread of a web in its making... Enjoyed :)

Poem by a poet with a 'z' in their name:

"“Always” means “Eternally.”" - Alisha Dietzman; XOXO... https://poetrysociety.org/poems/xoxo-and-xoxo-coda

[Danik 2016]

Interesting word tensions in this poem. Enjoyed!

"Any way you look at it, it seems the world is"."Abecedarian for a World Enflamed" by Leah Umansky
https://www.versedaily.org/2025/abecedarianforaworldenflamed.shtml

PS-What do you think of liberating titles of poems starting with difficult to find letters: k, q, x and z?

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Imaginative Abecedarian poem. "extra" is a fanciful touch... Enjoyed :)

"liberating titles" - That might be very helpful :)

"Butterfly, the wind blows sea-ward," - D H Lawrence; Butterfly... https://allpoetry.com/poem/8510433-Butterfly-by-D-H-Lawrence

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed this almost tender addressing of the butterfly.

Letter "c" is not difficult but I liked the poem:

"Lately, I've been into transformation". "Come In, Houston, or Everything I Know I Learned from the Guitar Solo in Tori Amos' "Doughnut Song" (Live in Frankfurt, Germany" by Anthony Frame
https://www.versedaily.org/2025/comeinhoustonoreverything.shtml

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Enjoyed very much :)

"delicate yet enduring" - PinkFaerie5; Christ and the Dogwood... https://allpoetry.com/poem/15071722-Christ-and-the-Dogwood-by-PinkFaerie5

[Danik 2016]

A delicate poem. I looked up the legend of the dogwood. Probably you know it already but here it is: https://www.gardenia.net/guide/dogwood-tree-facts-you-may-not-know#Dogwood_Tree_and_Legend_The_Christian_Tale_Be hind_the_Twisted_Tree


"Exhibit 3 was an enormous yellow"."Self, Centered" by Sofia Fall
https://www.versedaily.org/2025/selfcentered.shtml

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I so love Dogwoods. Thank you for the in-depth article. I don't recall hearing the story before :)

Enjoyed the self-centered poem: "... drawing in all the gravity..." :)

"Forever — is composed of Nows —" - Emily Dickinson; Forever — is composed of Nows... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52202/forever-is-composed-of-nows-690

[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed! ED surprisingly explicit here about the simplification of time.


"Gently fall the shadows gray,". "Slumber Song" by Arthur Macy
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com/arthur-macy/slumber-song-38566

By the way, are you still frequenting your poetic afternoons? You didn't publish any poems anymore.

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re: poems... yes, we had a session of Thursdays at Two yesterday, I guess I've been lax about posting them lately, though I have been posting them to my Padlet, along with what I write here of course... will try to remedy :)

Charming lullaby type poem :)

"hey harpist with the stringy fingers" - Kevin (somewhere in jersey); favorite harpist; alice and the rabbit hole... https://hellopoetry.com/poem/2494368/favorite-harpist-alice-and-the-rabbit-hole/

[Danik 2016]

I'll be glad to read them. I've become slower too, with the word challenge poems.

Really enjoyed that harpist poem.Hope Kevin keeps up his poetry.

"I don't know how we two poets find ourselves"."Like Seeds in the Belly of a Sparrow" by Lois Roma-Deeley
https://www.versedaily.org/2025/likeseedsinthebellyofasparrow.shtml

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No problem with the lol poems... I've posted some of my Word Can poems after your noting... some assignment poems may follow.

Enjoyed very much... lots to take in :)

"Just as in a sponge, there is in the orange a yearning to recover its content" - Francis Ponge; l'Orange... https://allpoetry.com/l'Orange