So true this picture of conflicting feelings. ST has become a favorite with me. :)
A poem, also by ST which could be an answer to "By the Sea":
"Child, child, love while you can"."Child, Child" by Sara Teasdale
https://allpoetry.com/Child,-Child
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So true this picture of conflicting feelings. ST has become a favorite with me. :)
A poem, also by ST which could be an answer to "By the Sea":
"Child, child, love while you can"."Child, Child" by Sara Teasdale
https://allpoetry.com/Child,-Child
ST: Me too :)
"Never fear the thing you feel — / Only by love is life made real;" :)
Staying with Sara... "Deep in the night the cry of a swallow," Deep In The Night... https://allpoetry.com/Deep-In-The-Night
Beautiful iove poem, read at 9 minutes of 2025!
"Evenings in trains,"."Return From Business" by Aldous Leonard Huxley
https://allpoetry.com/Return-From-Business
Reading at 12 minutes of Midnight... will toast in the New Year with Cran*Raspberry drink in a blue fluted festive glass, with Tinker Bell (my cat) :)
Love Huxley's language: "little black twittering ghosts" Enjoyed :)
"Friend forever in the light" - John Banister Tabb; To My Shadow... https://www.litscape.com/author/John...My_Shadow.html
... 'tis 6 minutes before...
Ai! Remember a new year having a snack with Tino, my long deceased cat! Cranberry is good for the kidneys, so excellent choice for a new year drink.
"To My Shadow..."." A shadowy poem.
"God sent us here to make mistakes,". "Mistakes" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
https://www.litscape.com/author/Ella.../Mistakes.html
sigh... so true, Enjoyed :)
"Hail, bright blossoming hawthorn-tree," - John Payne; To the Hawthorn-tree... https://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/content/hawthorn-tree
Particularly liked the ryth rhythm of the Paine poem.
"It is portentous, and a thing of state"'."Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight
Vachel Lindsay
https://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/cont...lks-midnight#1
https://poemanalysis.com/vachel-lind...s-at-midnight/
Enjoyed :) "It breaks his heart that kings must murder still,"... powerful. Enjoyed the analysis. We have a poet in our group who often uses theatrical voice in his poetry, reminding me of VL :)
"Joy to have merited the Pain—" - Emily Dickinson; Joy to have merited the Pain... https://allpoetry.com/Joy-to-have-merited-the-Pain
Impressive poem! The idea of joy growing out of the experience of pain is very powerful. And given her religious spirit, she isn't talking about human love.
"Kuno Kohn sings:".."Wanderer in the Evening"; by Alfred Lichtenstein
https://allpoetry.com/Wanderer-In-The-Evening
Enjoyed the minimalism used and the summary :)
"Lo, a pallid fleecy vapour" - George Borrow; Sadness... https://www.poemine.com/George-Borrow/Sadness.html
Oh my! This IS sad! Read in Borrow's bio that he had contact with German Romanticism. So there we are!
"my parents were born from a car. they climbed out"."now i’m bologna". By José Olivarez
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/now-im-bologna/
https://frostplace.wordpress.com/202...4/bologna-day/
"people are overrated. give me avocados."... Lol. Enjoyed the poem and the brief summary/interpretation :)
"Norse am I when the first snow falls;" - Wilson Pugsley MacDonald; The Song of the Ski... https://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/content/song-ski
Enjoyed very much this daring poem! Mac Donald is more than only burgers! Happy not too cold winter!
"O WINTER! frozen pulse and heart of fire,"."January" by Helen Hunt Jackson
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/hhj02.html#32
Poor beekeeper... Enjoyed :)
"Publication—is the Auction" - Emily Dickinson; Publication—is the Auction... https://allpoetry.com/Publicationis-the-Auction
An for me unexpected theme coming from ED. Enjoyed and the analysis was very helpful to understand the poem.
A poem by a poet with name beginning with "Q".
"WE lit a fire, and straightway camped"."After Cattle" by Roderic Quinn
https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/after-cattle