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Interesting informations about Auden, thanks. I didn't know that he was married to Erika Mann. And taken out of context the poem has a different meaning as originally intended.
Moons get tired too.
"Up in the cosy chamber,"."Up in the cosy chamber," by Ella Wilcox
https://www.litscape.com/author/Ella...y_Chamber.html
Enjoyed the generational poem of vanity verses grace :)
"Voice of the sea that calls to me," - William Stanley Braithwaite; Voice of the Sea... https://www.poetryexplorer.net/poem.php?id=10041024
Beautiful poem! I had some problem with th3 link though.
"Whenever I walk to Suffern along the Erie track"."The House with Nobody In It"
by Joyce Kilmer
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/poems-about-home/
Odd... me too now.
Delightful sad poem "For it wouldn't be so lonely if it had a ghost or two." Reminds me of Walter De La Mare's poetry:)
Poem by a poet with an 'x' in their name:
"I am a cloud in the sky" - Xu Zhimo; Chance... https://allpoetry.com/poem/8600881-Chance-by-Xu-Zhimo
Beautiful, delicate poem and realistic.
On another note:
"You may talk of your broilers, both single and double,"."The Old Frying Pan
by James W. Whilt
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/jam...ld-frying-pan/
Beautiful, delicate poem and realistic.
On another note:
"You may talk of your broilers, both single and double,"."The Old Frying Pan
by James W. Whilt
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/jam...ld-frying-pan/
"Why, there's many a woman "cleaned up" on her man / With no other club but the old frying pan."... Lololol !!!
Enjoyed :) FYI - There's a recall on many pans that may leach lead into food.
Poem by a poet with a 'z' in their name:
"Being a cloud in the sky" - Xu Zhimo; Fortuitousness... https://poetrypacific.blogspot.com/2...-xu-zhimo.html
Seems to be another translation of the poem in post #3604. I prefer the first version.
"At six o'clock we were waiting for coffee,". "A Miracle for Breakfast" by Elisabeth Bishop
https://allpoetry.com/A-Miracle-For-Breakfast
Elisabeth creates an almost absurd soliloquy of a poem of a desire for a better life, as the summary so well depicts. Enjoyed :)
"Beautiful sleep!" - Achsa White Sprague; Beautiful Sleep... https://www.litscape.com/author/Achs...ful_Sleep.html
A rare poem to sleep!
"Cat! who hast pass'd thy grand climacteric,"."Sonnet to a Cat" by John Keats
https://web.facebook.com/keatshousem...3/?_rdc=1&_rdr
Grand poem about a cat !... Enjoyed :)
"Dying, still slowly dying," - Phoebe Carey; Death Scene... https://www.litscape.com/author/Phoe...ath-Scene.html
"A Rose Jar
by Ruby Archer
Each heart—a rose-jar—teemeth, richly sweet
With prisoned perfume of a vanished time;
The spice of memory holds those odors fleet;
A birthday lifts the lid, and we may greet
Once more the breath of life's fair blossom,
Gathered in their prime."
Beautiful poem :)
"Flower among flowers," - Jose Rizal; Flower Among Flowers... https://allpoetry.com/Flower-Among-Flowers
Enjoyed that poem.!
Another flowery poem by Jose Rizal:
"Go to my country, go, O foreign flowers,"."To the Flowers of Heidelberg"
https://allpoetry.com/To-the-Flowers-of-Heidelberg
Lovely poem :) A commenter said 5-stanzas were missing but gave no link to substantiate the claim. Found a summary and bio: https://www.joserizal.com/works/to-t...of-heidelberg/... https://www.joserizal.com/life/
"How well I remember the hovel, that stood" - Hannah Flagg Gould; The Fortune-Teller... https://www.litscape.com/author/Hann...ne-Teller.html