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Interesting, Shakespeare invoking Philomel as did Eliot in The Wasteland hundreds of years later with tersely contrasting style. The "Lulla, lulla, lullaby; lulla, lulla, lullaby!" grated a bit on me a bit but then I hearkened back to Eliot's "Weialala leia / Wallala leialala / ... Weialala leia / Wallala leialala / ... la la", though not in the same context.
"ZZ Top was right" - Robert Heemstra; Sharp Dressed Man... https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/shar...sed_man_476119
Could Eliot be making a reference to Shakespeare's song? I´m not sure, but if I remember it rightly this is the song that puts fairy Queen Titania to sleep in "A Summer Night's Dream", therefore the lullabying.
Lol! A sharp Z poem!
"A Rock, A River, A Tree" The Rock Cries Out to Us Today by Maya Angelou
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...elou/poems/506
Possibly... will have to delve deeper. Here is one reference to Eliot and Shakespeare that doesn't answer the question... http://theshakespeareblog.com/2014/0...d-shakespeare/
"Barbara's eyes are blue as azure," - Shel Silverstein; Won't You?... https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/po...el-silverstein
Thanks for the link, tailor, it shows anyway that Eliot was influenced by Shakespeare.
Lol! Won't You?...Cute poem!
"Calling, the heron flies athwart the blue" The Creek-Road by Madison Julius Cawein
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...eek-road-37005
In The Wasteland Eliot called upon, or alluded to, many literary works. Being not nearly literary literate as Eliot, I was lost without all my study in another thread.
Lovely poem by MJC... I read it once then reread it personalizing it from a story my Mother told me just before she died whereas she went walkabout, truant with her dog in the English countryside as a young girl :)
"Did they send me away from my cat and my wife" - Randall Jarrell Gunner... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/gunner/
Hope you are all well. Californian taifun was in the news yesterday!
Sad poem. Interesting the inversion between cat and wife.
"Earth, round, rolling, compact--suns, moons, animals--all". Carol Of Word by Walt Whitman
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...l-of-words-832
Thanx, I am well. Quite a wind and rain event with just a smattering of lightning - no closer than 4-seconds (less than a mile, more than a kilometer) away. Local flooding but ok here. I think we have a break today (Friday) from the rain so we can assess the damage later.
Interesting, albeit ponderous poem. I enjoyed this line: "This is a poem--a carol of words--these are hints of meanings,", which summed it up for me.
"From hill to hill I roam, from thought to thought," - Francesco Petrarca; Canzone XVII. Di pensier in pensier, di monte in monte. / Distance and Solitude... https://www.poetrycat.com/francesco-...a/canzone-xvii
Well, Petrarca is Petrarca. I still hope to be able sometime to read him in Italian.
"Gentle angel with your mantle," The Apparition by Duncan Campbell Scott
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...parition-30742
Liked this poem, and the rhyme scheme suited it :)
"How does the genius make itself known? In the way that in nature" - Friedrich Schiller; Geniality.... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...eniality-30593
Enjoyed Geniality!
"I started Early – Took my Dog" –I started Early – Took my Dog – by Emily Dickinson
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...ook-my-dog-656
Incredible poem :)
"Just when the gentle hand of spring" - Abram Joseph Ryan;
To Mr. and Mrs. A. M. T.... https://www.poetrycat.com/abram-jose...-and-mrs-a-m-t
Loved this poem. A good read for rainy weather.
"Knit, knit, knit, knit!" The Three Little Kittens by Clara Doty Bates
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...-kittens-12803
Such a sweet poem: ""Miew, miew, miew, / Miew, miew, miew!"
"Lights of unknown desire," - Dr Kamran Haider Bukhari; Who Will Bell The Cat?... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/who-will-bell-the-cat/
Looked up the expression "To bell the cat". A very opportune poem.
"Many roses in the wind" Love Storm by D. H. Lawrence
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...ve-storm-22873
I agree.
Interesting poem... can not quite fathom the underlying tension.
"Not all the streams that water the bright earth," - Francesco Petrarca; Sonnet CXVI. Non Tesin, Po, Varo, Arno, Adige e Tebro. / He Extols the Laural and Its Favourite Stream....
https://www.poetrycat.com/francesco-...ca/sonnet-cxvi
Re: Love Storm-You are right. I thought of a young person dying, maybe a daughter, because it´s an ongoing situation
Noble Sonnet CXVI!
"Oh moon, who now look over the roof". Verses to the Moon by Luis Carlos López translated by William George Williams
https://poets.org/poem/verses-moon
Love the last stanza which included the word 'neurasthenic'. Noted the translator was the Father of William Carlos Williams :)
"Pale, at its ghastly noon," - Friedrich Schiller; A Funeral Fantasie.... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...fantasie-30700
"A Funeral Fantasie"- Powerfull and so very German in it´s intense contrasts.
"Queer are the ways of a man I know:" The Phantom Horsewoman by Thomas Hardy
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...rsewoman-17489
Enjoyed this poem; found an analysis... https://poemanalysis.com/thomas-hard...om-horsewoman/
It entered my mind that the "woman" might have been a figurehead perhaps of a sailing ship, though no evidence is given... just a passing thought.
"Rehearsal to Ourselves" - Emily Dickinson; Rehearsal to Ourselves... https://emily-dickinson-riddle.blogs...s-macbeth.html
Thanks for the analysis, tailor! You may be right, as the man was somehow staring at the sea.
"Rehearsal to Ourselves" a criptic poem.
"Say, where is now that glorious race, where now are the singers" The Bards Of Olden Time by Friedrich von Schiller
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...ler/poems/7615
Enjoyed :) The last 3-lines summed the poem up for me:
"Of the people still clear echoed the soul of the song,
And to whom from without appeared, in life, the great godhead,
Whom the bard of these days scarcely can feel in his breast."
"Torn is each virtue from its earthly throne" - Francesco Petrarca; Sonnet VII. La gola e 'l sonno e l' oziose piume. / To a Friend, Encouraging Him to Pursue Poetry.... https://www.poetrycat.com/francesco-petrarca/sonnet-vii
Wise Petrarca. Preferred the second translation by Nott.
"Under the snow in the dark and the cold,"The Tendril's Faith by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...ls-faith-32279
Delightful poem with unusual characters :)
"Vivid with love, eager for greater beauty" - Sara Teasdale; From The Woolworth Tower... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...rth-tower-1795
From The Woolworth Tower... Beautiful poem about the nightly view of the city.
"Women reminded him of lilies and roses."Thoughts after Ruskin (1967) by Elma Mitchell
https://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poe...-after-ruskin/
Glad for the explanation on who Rushkin was... saved googling. An intense poem about the intense work women do on a daily basis... God bless.
Hopefully not a duplicate: (nope, looks good, it's my last "x" poem though :( ... have to REALLY dig)
"X was once a great king Xerxes," - Edward Lear; Alphabet Poem: Letter X... https://www.dltk-teach.com/alphabudd...s/x/lear-x.htm
No, not a duplicate. Interesting X poem.
"Ah, these jasmines, these white jasmines!" The First Jasmines by Rabindranath Tagore
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...ore/poems/2297
Enjoyed Tagore's poem :)
"Bring me all of your dreams," - Langston Hughes; The Dream Keeper... https://www.madisonpubliclibrary.org...y/dream-keeper
Charming poem:The Dream Keeper...
" Calm on the breast of Loch Maree" The Well Of Loch Maree by John Greenleaf Whittier
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...och-maree-6167
A druids haunt turned into a holy place of healing: "And blest is he who on his way / That fount of healing findeth!" :)
"Don't allow the lucid moment to dissolve" - Adam Zagajewski; Don't Allow the Lucid Moment to Dissolve... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/don-...t-to-dissolve/
Beatiful modern poem, 'Don't Allow the Lucid Moment to Dissolve.."
A bit late but still in time:
"Each year cometh with all his days," New Year by Abram Joseph Ryan
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...new-year-30274
Enjoyed the Christmas/New Year season poem :)
"From harmony, from heavenly harmony" - John Dryden; A Song For St Cecilia's Day, 1687.... https://www.poetrycat.com/john-dryde...lias-day1-1687
Reminds me of a story about music and the Holy Cecilia.
https://biblioklept.org/2014/05/16/s...ch-von-kleist/
''Gaunt in gloom," Nightpiece by James Joyce
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...yce/poems/2466
Wonderful story by Herr von Kleist :) A version of "Gloria in Excelsis Deo" is a favorite of mine to sing when I'm in the choir.
Joyce's gloomy poem is a gem.
"Hold fast to dreams" - Langston Hughes; Dreams... https://poets.org/poem/dreams
Dreams...true enough!
"IN tattered robes that hoard a glittering trace" THE INDIAN GIPSY by Sarojini Naidu
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...idu/poems/4569
Beautiful poem :)
"Joy, thou goddess, fair, immortal," - Friedrich Schiller; Hymn To Joy.... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...n-to-joy-30690
Couldn´t help it: By the Solist of the Viena Singer Boys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmtRiumMQz8
"Lord, I ask a garden in a quiet spot" Lord, I Ask a Garden by Alfonso Guillén Zelaya - (1887-1947)
https://poets.org/poem/lord-i-ask-garden
Enjoyed the music very much... another joyful strain :)
re: "Lord, I ask a garden in a quiet spot" - A delightful prayer poem of the most humble sort :)
"maggie and milly and molly and may" - ee cummings; Maggie And Milly And Molly And May... https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/po...y-e-e-cummings
Maggie And Milly And Molly And May... Enigmatic children poem.
"Neither clown nor child nor black" Magellanic Penguin by Pablo Neruda
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...da/poems/15735
Wonderful Neruda poem... questioning "astronaunt" in translation.
"I am a worm in the sand." :)
"O my own Italy! though words are vain" - Francesco Petrarca; Canzone XVI. Italia mia, benchè 'l parlar sia indarno. / To The Princes of Italy, Exhorting Them to Set Her Free... https://www.poetrycat.com/francesco-...ca/canzone-xvi
Oh,my! Didn't notice the "astronaunt". Too many mistakes these days, including my own.
Canzone XVI-Majestic poem!
Perhaps you'd like to buy a flower?-Perhaps you'd like to buy a flower?...by Emily Dickinson
https://www.litscape.com/author/Emil..._A_Flower.html