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Vachel Lindsay - I couldn't find any either beyond his Wikipedia article and Poetry Foundation bio https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/vachel-lindsay .
Enjoyed :) Found this analysis: https://poemanalysis.com/gerard-manl...s/pied-beauty/
"humans think" - John Tiong Chunghoo; Zen Creatures... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/zen-creatures/
re:Enjoyed the analysis. I think the poem exalts what we today call diversity.
Zen Creatures-Charming poem about trees and humans.
"I hate my verses, every line, every word."."Love The Wild Swan" by Robinson Jeffers
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...rs/poems/17105
Thoughtful poem: "Does it matter whether you hate your . . . self?" Enjoyed very much :)
Robinson Jeffers Bio: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/robinson-jeffers I'll have to read up on his eco-poetry, he knew the central California coast well.
"Jemima is my name," - Walter De La Mare; Mima... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...are/mima-33378
re: Enjoyed Jeffers bio, specially the " philosophy of inhumanism".
"Mima". A not so good relationship between sisters.
"THE kettle descants in a cosy drone,"." At Tea" by Thomas Hardy.
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/hardy02.html#16
More unrequited love done with such a deft hand... enjoyed :)
"Look how he throws them up and up," - William Bliss Carman; The Juggler... https://www.poetrycat.com/william-bl...an/the-juggler
Enjoyed The Juggler so much! Her the boys juggle in front of the cars when the traffic lights are green.
Two "M" poems by Matsuo Basho:
Midfield
Midfield,
attached to nothing,
the skylark singing.
https://www.poetrycat.com/matsuo-basho/midfield
Moonlight slanting
Moonlight slanting
through the bamboo grove;
a cuckoo crying.
https://www.poetrycat.com/matsuo-bas...light-slanting
I so love Basho's haiku :)
"Never forgetful silence fall on thee," - Lionel Johnson; Celtic Speech... https://www.potw.org/archive/potw332.html
The power of Music. Wonderful poem
To the times when the summer rain was still gentle:
"O GENTLE, gentle summer rain,".Invocation to Rain in Summer. William Cox Bennett (1820-1895)
https://www.potw.org/archive/potw399.html
Enjoyed... an invocation all too repeated since the 19th century.
"Philadelphia is greek for love between brothers" - Charles Exton; Proverbs 17: 17... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/proverbs-17-17/
"Proverbs 17: 17... " Enjoyed its wisdom.
"Quieter"."The Stronghold" by SirJohn Collings Squire.
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...ronghold-37959
Reads like a nightmare... enjoyed :)
"Reptilian green the wrinkled throat," - Yvor Winters; Sir Gawaine and the Green Knight... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/s...-green-knight/
Wonderful take on the Legends of the Round Table!
"Safe in their Alabaster Chambers –"."Safe in their Alabaster Chambers (124)" by Emily Dickinson
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/s...-chambers-124/
Wonderful poem :)
"The awful shadow of some unseen Power" - Percy Bysshe Shelley; Hymn to Intellectual Beauty...
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...lectual-beauty
Audio by Vincent Price: https://www.google.com/search?client...b3TZNWqiE,st:0
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hymn_t...lectual_Beauty
Wow!Powerful Poem! Thanks for the link, tailor!
I have to answer with Faust´s encounter with the Spirit of the Earth, even if this part of the play doesn´t begin with "U":
"How differently it works on me, this Sign!
You, the Spirit of Earth, are nearer:
Already, I feel my power is greater,
Already, I glow, as with fresh wine.
I feel the courage to engage the world,
Into the pain and joy of Earth be hurled, 465
And though the storm wind is unfurled,
Fearless, in the shipwreck’s teeth, be whirled.
There’s cloud above me –
The Moon hides its light –
The lamp flickers!
Now it dies! Crimson rays dart
Round my head – Horror
Flickers from the vault above,
And grips me tight!
I feel you float around me,
Spirit, I summon to appear, speak to me!
Ah! What tears now at the core of me!
All my senses reeling
With fresh feeling!
I feel you draw my whole heart towards you!
You must! You must! Though my Life’s lost, too!
(He grips the book and speaks the mysterious name of the Spirit. A crimson
flame flashes, the Spirit appears in the flame.)
Spirit
Who calls me?
Faust (Looking away)
Terrible to gaze at!
Spirit
Mightily you have drawn me to you,
Long, from my sphere, snatched your food,
And now –
Faust
Ah! Endure you, I cannot!
Spirit
You beg me to show myself, you implore,
You wish to hear my voice, and see my face:
The mighty prayer of your soul weighs
With me, I am here! – What wretched terror
Grips you, the Superhuman! Where is your soul’s calling?
Where is the heart that made a world inside, enthralling:
Carried it, nourished it, swollen with joy, so tremulous,
That you too might be a Spirit, one of us?
Where are you, Faust, whose ringing voice
Drew towards me with all your force?
Are you he, who, breathing my breath,
Trembles in all your life’s depths,
A fearful, writhing worm?
Faust
Shall I fear you: you form of fire?
I am, I am Faust: I am your peer!
Spirit
In Life’s wave, in action
I blow, to and fro!
Birth and the tomb,
An eternal flow,
A woven changing,
A glow of Being.
Over Time’s quivering loom intent,
Working the Godhead’s living garment.
Faust
You who wander the world, on every hand,
Active Spirit, how close to you I feel!
Spirit
You’re like the Spirit that you understand
Not me!
(It vanishes.)"
https://antilogicalism.com/wp-conten...7/07/faust.pdf
The "U" poem:
"Umbrageous". "Hamlet" by Walter De La Mare
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...e/hamlet-33532
Faust: Wonderful passage !
De La Mare: Hamlet - "his face a parchment of old age"... another worthy poem :)
"Vast the realm of Being is," - Ralph Waldo Emerson; Vast The Realm Of Being Is, ... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...being-is-15458
To the point! Enjoyed!
"With its three southern branches reaching the Chu border,"."A View of the Han River" by Wang Wei
https://www.poetrycat.com/wang-wei/a...-the-han-river
A touching poem :) Wang Wei: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Wei_(Tang_dynasty)
"X is for Hope" - Catherine Flynn; X is for Hope... https://readingtothecore.com/2023/05...x-is-for-hope/
Loved the link on Wan Wei
"X is for Hope" - an honest "Z" poem.
"a stone at dawn"."Easter Morning" by Amy Clampitt
https://100.best-poems.net/easter-morning.html
Another Easter poem :) Enjoyed !
I'll take a step back with a "y" and "z" poem...
"Yet I swear" - Deepak Kumar Pattanayak;Fate is not a petty thing... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/fate...a-petty-thing/
"Zaccheus climbed the tree," - John Newton; Zaccheus... https://hymnary.org/text/zaccheus_climbed_the_tree
and follow with an Easter "b"...
"Because of Jesus my Lord, I can rejoice evermore" - Nicole Weaver; Because of Jesus My Lord... https://authorsden.com/visit/viewPoe...uthorID=106706
:)
Oh my, oh my, oh my! Sorry for the muddle! Thanks for the correction, elegantly filling the gaps with poems, tailor.
"Fate is not a petty thing... " A curious poem because of its vindictive tone.
"Zaccheus climbed the tree," -Zaccheus is so representative of the seeking human.
"Because of Jesus my Lord, I can rejoice evermore"- the confidence of the believer.
"Come with rain, O loud Southwester!". "To the Thawing Wind" by Robert Frost (1874-1963).
re: "To the Thawing Wind": "Scatter poems on the floor;" ! Sounds like the poet Frost is tired of winter, and perhaps writing, lol. https://www.potw.org/archive/potw291.html Enjoyed :)
"Downhill I came, hungry, and yet not starved;" - Edward Thomas; The Owl... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/the-owl/
Sorry! Forgot to provide the link. Lol, yes I agree!
The Owl. Wonderful poem, in a sense the opposite of the poem before. The "bad" is now Each eveon the outside.
"Each eve".The Day Of Days. by William Morris
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...-of-days-27588
Enjoyed :) An analysis: https://allpoetry.com/poem/8476593-T...William-Morris
"Friends I am here to modestly report" - Ross Gay; Wedding Poem... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/wedding-poem/
Thanks for the analysis and for the all poetry version.
Wedding Poem... AAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIII!
"GHOSTS of my fathers, while you keep". "An Epilogue".
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/bestof1923a.html#15
An Epilogue
GHOSTS of my fathers, while you keep
On ghostly hills your ghostly sleep,
If for a moment you should turn
The pages of this book to learn
What trade your offspring's taken to,
Forgive me that my flocks and herds
Are only barren bleating words.
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/bestof1923a.html#15
Sad, melancholy poem... enjoyed :)
"How can we die when we're already" - Tacey M. Atsitty; Anasazi... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/anasazi/
Enjoyed Anasazi. I love this site which has so many different original poets. Found this background link:
Hope there is no pay wall:https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/08/s...08anasazi.html
"I didn’t want to scold the sky that year, but". "All Thirst Quenched" by Lois Red Elk
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/all-thirst-quenched/
re: nytimes - No problem, I have a nytimes account that I do not pay for since I reference their website so seldom. The demise of their society is more complex than I had realized.
re: "I didn't want..." - Easily relatable in a drought stricken region... enjoyed :)
"Joy came in youth as a humming-bird," - Sophie M. (Almon) Hensley; Joy... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...oem/song-18448
"Joy..." Sad poem although it talks about joy because it depicts the transitory nature of life.
Two "K" poems by Kobayashi Issa:
1-Kasuga Field's deer
Kobayashi Issa
"Kasuga Field's deer
also attend...
Buddha amid birthday flowers"
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/po...%3Bs-deer.html
2-kites of Edo
Kobayashi Issa
"kites of Edo
from morning on, heads
shaking, shaking"
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/po...es-of-edo.html
Very enjoyable Issa poems :)
"Land of the West! though passing brief the record of thine age," - Eliza Cook; Washington... https://www.potw.org/archive/potw387.html
Washington- The leader image depicted in this poem makes me feel how much the current world is lacking in strong but wise leaders.
"MANY a vanished year and age,". "Corinth"(From The Siege of Corinth) by George Gordon, Lord Byron
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/po...1/corinth.html
Agreed. Washington is my 7th cousin 7-times removed :) My daughter must have followed in his footsteps by cutting down my cherry tree... her home now resides on that spot, lol.
Corinth: "A fortress formed to Freedom’s hands." :)
"No matter the pull toward brink. No" - Ross Gay; Sorrow Is Not My Name... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/s...s-not-my-name/
re: Congrats on the kinship with Washington. Sorry for the cherry tree though. Where did your daughter reside before?
Enjoyed " Sorrow Is Not My Name...". The title is very fitting for someone called Gay.
"One night, not long after the disaster,"."After the Disaster" by Abigail Deutsch
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/after-the-disaster/
re: daughter - on the adjoining property...
I tried to understand "After the Disaster" but my attempt was a disaster.
"Powhatan was conqueror," - Vachel Lindsay; Our Mother Pocahontas... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/our-mother-pocahontas/
re daughter: I see. She is living more near from you and your wife now.
re:"After The Disaster". There are some analysis but behind paywall or similar. So my own attempt: the disaster would be the attack on the twin towers in 2000 as the visible part of one of the analysis suggests. The girl is in fact a kind of angel, visible only to the poet. She represents a real or a symbolic loss.
"Quick gleam! that ridest on the gossamer!"."To the Gossamer-Light" by Charles Turner (19th poem)
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/turner01.html#19
Only a couple hundred feet closer :)
Analysis: Ah, figured maybe the towers but was lost otherwise.
Delightful poem, about humming birds I believe :)
"Remember me when I am gone away," - Christina Rossetti; Remember... https://poets.org/poem/remember
"Remember". Sad and beautiful poem!
"School is over. It is too hot"."The Lonely Street" by William Carlos Williams
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/wcw-sg3.html#50 (19th poem)
Enjoyed WCW's poem... found an analysis: https://allpoetry.com/The-Lonely-Street :)
"The roc wings fanwise," - Mao Tse-tung; Two Birds: A Dialogue... https://www.marxists.org/reference/a...ms/poems36.htm
re: Enjoyed the analysis of WCW's poem, very much to the point.
A poem by Mao Tse-tung is a surprise indeed. Enjoyed.
"Under mossy oak and pine"."Creole Serenade" by Madison Julius Cawein
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...serenade-11323
Magical poem: "And, with starry blossoms blent, / Like the moon she leans O heart, / 'Tis another firmament." :)
"Veil them, cover them, wall them round," - Rudyard Kipling; Letting In The Jungle... https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...he-jungle-3586
Enjoyed the poem but it sounds as end of the world, our world:"And the blind walls crumble, unknown, o'erthrown,/And none shall inhabit again!"
"Where dips the rocky highland"."The Stolen Child" by W. B. Yeats
https://poets.org/poem/stolen-child