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The Dog and the Thief Interesting, still a relevant "modern day" fable; the concluding stanza:
"From London they come, silly people to chouse,
Their lands and their faces unknown:
Who'd vote a rogue into the parliament-house,
That would turn a man out of his own?"
The Modern Patriot - This caught me eye: "Who constitutionally pulls / Your house about your ears."
"September rain falls on the house." - Elizabeth Bishop Sestina...
https://staff.washington.edu/rmcnamar/383/bishop.html
Enjoyed both the very opportune rebellion of Cowper and the delicate sensibility of Sestina.
On a more subjective note: "TARRY a while, O Death, I cannot die" The Poet To Death by Sarojini Naidu
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...idu/poems/4571
A bittersweet, lovely poemQuote:
Originally Posted by Danik 2016
Us two in the room; my dog and me - The Dog by Ivan Turgenev
https://www.poetry-archive.com/t/the_dog.html
The Poet To Death: "dhadikulas" is the bird of time as best I can figure out (laptop very slow today)... delightfully light poem.
The Dog: "in each of us there burns and shines the same trembling spark." - wonderful poem.
"Vultures are holy creatures." - cryptonature (Jarod Anderson)...
https://twitter.com/CryptoNature/sta...92972174381057
Much enjoyed The Dog and pay my respect to the twittered Vultures.
A poet I discovered recently:
"When you open the door, everything falls into place"—In the Lake Region
by Tomas Venclova
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...he-lake-region
Delightful poem... I thought it was going off the rails near the end, but recovered nicely. Enjoyed this bit: "The twins Celsius and Fahrenheit / are predicting spring weather—while a shadow obscures / the past (just like the present)"
"X-ing" - Francie Lynch May 2021 Not X-actly...
https://hellopoetry.com/tag/x/
Enjoyed! "X" poems are always a rarity! Curious to know when you felt that Venclova's poem went off the rails.
" Ye children of the Land of Gold," The Ballad Of Mabel Clare by Henry Lawson
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...bel-clare-5249
Zim Zizimi - (of the Soudan of burnt Egypt, - The Soudan, The Sphinxes, The Cup, The Lamp by Victor Hugo
https://readandripe.com/the-soudan-t...y-victor-hugo/
re: Venclova - "Of the black photos, the black headphones
of radio operators, black signatures under documents,
of the unarmed with their frozen pupils—of the prisoner's boot or the trunk
of the refugee?" I dunno, perhaps a reference to war lost my interest for a brief moment.
" Ye children..." - LOL ! : "the song is meant / For singing through the nose."
"Zim Zizimi..." - Long poem. 18 words with "q" in them. Zim, a tragic end.
"A noiseless patient spider," - Walt Whitman A Noiseless Patient Spider...
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...patient-spider
re: Tomas Venclova. A short comment on the poem:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...tomas-venclova
Zim Zizimi- Romantic Victor Hugo
Not all that partial to spiders, but what Walt Whitman made out of it! Enjoyed the delicate poem.
"Be glad your nose is on your face," Be Glad Your Nose is on Your Face by Jack Prelutsky
Ah !
Enjoyed "Be glad..." quite amusing :)
"cruelly,love" - e.e. cummings... https://cummings.ee/book/xli-poems/poem/songs-xii/
e.e. cummings- interesting, apocalyptical author!
"Dawn-cool, dew-cool". The Wood-Spring To The Poet by Duncan Campbell Scott
Found your poem here... http://www.public-domain-poetry.com/...the-poet-30733 Incredible poem :)
"Ere yet the warning chimes of midnight sound," - Oliver Wendell Holmes Humboldt's Birthday... https://www.poetrycat.com/oliver-wen...oldts-birthday
Thanks for rescuing the link I forgot to include, Tailor!
'Humboldt's Birthday'-Wonderful poem!
FROM harmony, from heavenly harmony,-JOHN DRYDEN A Song for St. Cecilia's Day, 1687
https://englishverse.com/poems/a_son...ilias_day_1687
Some interesting line structures: " The double double double beat" Enjoyed :)
"Golden-locked Erato, and thou, sweet lute," - Jan Kochanowski Lament Xv... https://internetpoem.com/jan-kochanowski/grave/