Another delightful lilting poem by Emily! :)
"Quiet form of silent nun," - Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell; Soeur Monique... https://www.poetrycat.com/alice-chri.../soeur-monique
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Another delightful lilting poem by Emily! :)
"Quiet form of silent nun," - Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell; Soeur Monique... https://www.poetrycat.com/alice-chri.../soeur-monique
Most emphatic poem on a nun I ever saw. Looking for a story, I found this:
https://www.google.com/search?q=Soue...id:NHB1a-8EhKQ
"Radiant notes" Cactus Seed by Lola Ridge
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...tus-seed-29128
Enigmatic poem by an Avant-garde poet... enjoyed :)
Volatile link for me... finally found a way to have a pleasant classical piece play :)
"Silence! stir not! for a whisper" - H. P. Nichols; The Fishers... https://www.poetrycat.com/h-p-nichols/the-fishers
Enjoyed!
"The truth is dark under your eyelids." Against Winter by Charles Simic
https://www.best-poems.net/charles_s...st_winter.html. Interview with Charlie Simic:
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/...charles-simic/
Interesting poem... the poet even more so.
"Up in heaven," - Jo; In Heaven... https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/in-heaven-2
Sad poem "Up in Heaven". Hope you are well!
"Very old are the woods; "All That's Past" by Walter De La Mare
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...ats-past-33472
Tired, but well (seasonal). We've had a stretch of sunny, albeit cool, weather... and my wife returned after 3-weeks on holiday Tuesday :)
Masterful economy of words; wonderful poem.
"We mourn the loss of our little pet," Louisa May Alcott; A Lament For S. B. Pat Paw... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-la...r-s-b-pat-paw/
Sad aaaiii! For one moment one forgets that Snoball lived long ago and may have lived other lives since.
"Ye distant Hills, ye smiling glades,".Ode On A Distant Prospect Of Ever Getting To The Hills by John Kendall (Dum-Dum)
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...he-hills-21588
Lol
"Zephyr returns; and in his jocund train" - Francesco Petrarca; To Laura In Death. Sonnet XLII. Zefiro torna, e 'l bel tempo rimena. / Returning Spring Brings to Him Only Increase of Grief.... https://www.poetrycat.com/francesco-...th-sonnet-xlii
Enjoyed specially the second translation by WOODHOUSELEE.
I forgot to mention that Charles Simic died some days ago
"As an ant is powerless". The Supreme Moment by Charles Simic
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-supreme-moment/
Charles Simic - sorry to hear :( "1990 Pulitzer Prize, and served as the United States Poet Laureate" - The Yale Review
.... A rather sad little poem.
"Breathing the stale and stuffy air" - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; A Voyage... https://www.poetrycat.com/arthur-conan-doyle/a-voyage
Wow! Conan Doyle writing nostalgic poems!
"Crown me with roses," Crown me with Roses by Fernando Pessoa
https://mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-21947
Pessoa wiki (incredibly complex)... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Pessoa
Enjoyed :) Interesting poem... sought analysis and learned of a poetry device I've used but never knew it had a name: (anadiplosis) - https://literarydevices.net/anadiplosis/
Not knowing the original Portuguese poem, nor knowing Portuguese, the translation seems slanted toward something in the style ee cummings might have written - which is within Pessoa's range.
Found another translation which better resonates with me, again not knowing the original Portuguese poem, nor knowing Portuguese, translated from the Portuguese by Alessandro Palermo Funari: a poem written by Ricardo Reis (a heteronym of Fernando Pessoa);
(the last poem on the page)...Quote:
Crown me with roses,
Crown me, in truth, with
Roses–
Roses which wither
In face of with’ring
So young!
Crown me with roses
And with fleeting leaves.
That’s all.
https://intranslation.brooklynrail.o...rnando-pessoa/
"Droning a drowsy syncopated tune," - Langston Hughes; The Weary Blues... https://www.arts.gov/stories/blog/20...angston-hughes
Glad you enjoyed Fernando Pessoa. For me he is the best Portuguese Poet I prefer him even to the classical Camões. He had an English Phase too, during his stay in Great Britain. Not so satisfied with the translations though.
https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Po.../PDF/I8A22.pdf
Enjoyed the musicallity of Hughes Poem.
"Eagle-heart, child-heart, bonnie lad o' dreams," Love And Art by Charles Hamilton Musgrove
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...-and-art-27830
Choice between love and art seems rather drastic... otherwise enjoyed :)
"Flying fireworks" - McKenna L. Martin; July 4th
... https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/july-4th
Agree. Why have only one if you can have both?
"Flying fireworks" Concise Poem!
"Gaily bedight," Eldorado by Edgar Allan Poe
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com.../eldorado-1710
True.
Enjoyed :) I too sought El Dorado late in life... and found it (El Dorado County, California) where I found riches beyond the imagination of natural man in Gold Country.
"“How do you feel?” I ask again. I, knowing the answer, poke my head" - Allesha Eman; Double Meaning... https://hellopoetry.com/poem/4097172/double-meaning/
According to the legends El Dorado also existed somewhere in South America. In a sense we can say that we live in different El Dorados.
“How do you feel?”Dramatic poem.
"I dreamed an angel, Angel twice, through death,"I dreamed an angel, Angel twice, through death...by Anne Whitney
https://www.litscape.com/author/Anne...ugh_Death.html
Enjoyed :) I found the abbaaccadedeed (if I scanned correctly) sonnet rhyme scheme pleasing.
"John Kepler, from the chimney corner, watched" - Alfred Noyes; Kepler... https://www.poetrycat.com/alfred-noyes/kepler
Charming Kepler "fable".
"Kittens large and Kittens small," Foreign Kittens by Oliver Herford
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...-kittens-18463
:) Delightful poem
"Luna is a female cat from the neighbourhood" - Sylvia Frances Chan; Our Neighbour's Cat... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/our-neighbours-cat/
Cute poem, though nothing surpasses the picture of Luna herself, "peacefully" sleeping. Small mistake here - wait- waited ? :"when she was younger,/she just dropped in and wait,"
Cheating a bit, turning "M" upside down, but the poem is so fitting.
"Winter. Time to eat fat" February by Margareth Atwood.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...-56d2288025b1e
Most appropriate: "Make it be spring."
"Never was bird, spoil'd of its young, more sad," - Francesco Petrarca; Sonnet Cxc
Passer mai solitario in alcun tetto. FAR FROM HIS BELOVED, LIFE IS MISERABLE BY NIGHT AS BY DAY.... https://internetpoem.com/francesco-p...nnet-cxc-poem/
"Never was bird, spoil'd of its young, more sad," Aaiii!
"O a fat turkey gobbler once sat on a limb" The Sad Turkey Gobbler by Edwin C. Ranck
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...-gobbler-29031
Poor turkey :(
"Prate not to me so much of suns and of nebulous bodies;" - Friedrich Schiller; To Astronomers... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...ronomers-30584
Lol! Schiller talking to astronomers is a curiosity in itself.
"Queen of the stars! so gentle, so benign," To The Moon - Rydal by William Wordsworth
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...oon-rydal-4630
Beautiful homage to the Moon. Rydal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rydal,_Cumbria
"Reportless Subjects, to the Quick" - Emily Dickinson; Reportless Subjects, to the Quick... https://emily-dickinson-riddle.blogs...-people-4.html
Thanks for the opportune link, tailor. I was a bit puzzled by Rydal, but didn´t look it up.
Enjoyed that homage to Andersen´s Fairy Tales!
"Sing, Goddess, sing of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus—
that murderous anger which condemned Achaeans
to countless agonies and threw many warrior souls
deep into Hades, leaving their dead bodies
carrion food for dogs and birds—
all in fulfilment of the will of Zeus.
Start at the point where Agamemnon, son of Atreus,
that king of men, quarrelled with noble Achilles.
Which of the gods incited these two men to fight?
That god was Apollo, son of Zeus and Leto.
Angry with Agamemnon, he cast plague down
onto the troops—deadly infectious evil.
For Agamemnon had dishonoured the god’s priest,
Chryses, who’d come to the ships to find his daughter,
Chryseis, bringing with him a huge ransom.
In his hand he held up on a golden staff
the scarf sacred to archer god Apollo.
He begged Achaeans, above all the army’s leaders,
the two sons of Atreus:
“Menelaus, Agamemnon, sons of Atreus,
all you well-armed Achaeans, may the gods
on Olympus grant you wipe out Priam’s city,
and then return home safe and sound.
Release my dear child to me. Take this ransom.
Honour Apollo, far-shooting son of Zeus.”
All the Achaeans roared out their support:
“Respect the priest. Take the generous ransom.”
Displeased, Agamemnon dismissed Chryses roughly:
“Old man,
don’t let me catch you by our hollow ships,
sneaking back here today or later on.
Homer, Iliad Excerpts 2
Who cares about Apollo’s scarf and staff?
I’ll not release the girl to you, no, not before
she’s grown old with me in Argos, far from home,
working the loom, sharing my bed. Go away.
If you want to get home safely, don’t anger me.”
The old man, afraid, obeyed his words, walked off in silence,
along the shore by the tumbling, crashing surf.
Some distance off, he prayed to lord Apollo,
Leto’s fair-haired child:
“God with the silver bow,
protector of Chryse, sacred Cilla,
mighty lord of Tenedos, Sminthean Apollo,
hear my prayer: If I’ve ever pleased you
with a holy shrine, or burned bones for you—
bulls and goats well wrapped in fat—
grant me my prayer. Force the Danaans
to pay full price for my tears with your arrows.”
So Chryses prayed. Phoebus Apollo heard him.
He came down from Olympus top enraged,
carrying on his shoulders bow and covered quiver,
his arrows rattling in anger against his arm.
So the god swooped down, descending like the night.
He sat some distance from the ships, shot off an arrow—
the silver bow reverberating ominously."
From The Iliad by Homer http://people.uncw.edu/deagona/lit/Iliad%20excerpts.pdf
:)
"To think that, as a boy of thirteen, I would grapple" - Paul Muldoon; Pineapples And Pomegranates... https://www.poetrycat.com/paul-muldo...d-pomegranates
Enjoyed the provocative contrasts Paul Muldoon establishes between pineapple and pomegranate.
"Uncle Sidney, when he wuz here," The Squirtgun Uncle Maked Me by James Whitcomb Riley
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...maked-me-29431
Enjoyable vernacular poem (tough in bits). Didn't know one could make squirt guns with bits of elderberry wood. Also took me down the path to the history of the Super Soaker :)
"Voltaire, our England's lover, man divine" - Algernon Charles Swinburne; Lucifer... https://www.poetrycat.com/algernon-c...nburne/lucifer
Does really Voltaire deserve all this?
"We’d rather have the iceberg than the ship,". The Imaginary Iceberg by Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)
https://www.thepoetryhour.com/poems/...ginary-iceburg
re: Voltaire... most curious. I found the following by Hugo: https://www.angelfire.com/mn3/mixed_...o_voltaire.htm
"Icebergs behoove the soul
(both being self-made from elements least visible)
to see them so: fleshed, fair, erected indivisible." - wonderful thoughts by Elizabeth Bishop.
Poem by poet whose name starts with "X" :)...
"Deep in spring, the rain's passed- West Lake is good." - Ouyang Xiu; Deep in Spring, the Rain's Passed (Picking Mulberries)... http://www.chinese-poems.com/oyx2.html
Loved this vehement praise of Voltaire by Victor Hugo!
Lovely poem. Reminded me of angliholic.
"Ye people of Ireland, both country and city," A New Song On Wood's Halfpence by Jonathan Swift
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...alfpence-36071
Interesting historical poem; found this background... https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2018/0...r-on-currency/
"zippity-do-dah" - Steve Patterson; Zippity-Do-Dah... https://www.authorsden.com/visit/vie...&AuthorID=6362
Congrats for still finding poems with first line beginning with "z". My full support for the chorded mouse.
"AT VILLAGE lived, in days of yore," Azolan by Voltaire
https://allpoetry.com/Azolan.
Enjoyed... had to use a different link: https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/azolan
"Beyond all this, the wish to be alone:" - Philip Larkin; Wants... http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...in/poems/14583
Philip Larkins poem Wants _ Ai!
"camouflage" -camouflage cat by Constance La France
https://www.poetrysoup.com/poems/calico_cat
Loved the alliteration :)
"Draw a crazy picture." - Shel Silverstein; Put Something In... https://allpoetry.com/Put-Something-In
Loved that Shel Silverstein poem!
"Earliest morning, switching all the". Love Lies Sleeping by Elizabeth Bishop
https://www.thepoetryhour.com/poems/love-lies-sleeping