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Love this poem by EB... so descriptive with her use of words... guess nothing really changes with cities. She even took pains to make her poem visually consistent and pertinent. Enjoyed the summary :)
"Fasten your hair with a golden pin," - William Butler Yeats; Aedh Gives His Beloved Certain Rhymes... https://americanliterature.com/autho...certain-rhymes
:)
Yeats-Wow!
"Giacinta sat upon the garden wall"."Giacinta" by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
https://www.poemine.com/Wilfrid-Scaw.../Giacinta.html
"``And Simon loved you, and for this he died?''"... such an odd tension in this poem. I found a link that mentions a novel? of a psychological bent: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Luigi-Capuana
A snippet google translated from an Italian wikipedia about Giacinta ( https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giacinta_(romanzo) ): "the protagonist of the novel who, after a difficult adolescence, challenges the conventions and hypocrisy of the society in which she lives, triumphing over them temporarily. Giacinta is a pathological case, whose crisis is observed and analyzed by Capuana and her narrative alter ego, Doctor Follini." Hmmm... enjoyed but need further study :)
"HildaDoolittle" - George Starbuck; Session... https://static.poetryfoundation.org/...8/pages/15.png
re: Agree. The poem hints at tragedy, but doesn't reveal the story
Interesting finds. Some more: Amazon blurb about the novel by Capuana:https://www.amazon.com/Giacinta-Luig.../dp/1436858674
A lot about Wilfrid Blunt but no mention of the poem "Giacinta":
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfrid_Scawen_Blunt
Hilda Doolittle-Curious poem!
"In the silent depth of space,"."Alcyone" by Archibald Lampman
https://www.poetrycat.com/archibald-lampman/alcyone
Interesting finds...the poet quite the scoundrel if I interpret correctly.
Enjoyed, although it is a rather young star: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcyone_(star) :)
"Janus am I; oldest of potentates;" - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; The Poet's Calendar... https://www.poetrycat.com/henry-wads...poets-calendar
re: Agree! The myth of Hyacinth isn´t very helpful either: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyacinth_(mythology). Blunts Giacinta is very ambiguous. Maybe he just made her up that way ?!.
Enjoyed the "The Poet's Calendar..." A correspondence with the astrological signs.
Cheating a bit on letter "K". "K" however in title or the second word:
"Be kind to animals, my child:Don't make the gentle ringworm wild.". "Kindness to Animals" by Arthur James Marshall Smith
https://www.poemine.com/Arthur-James...O-ANIMALS.html
Agree... the myth muddies the waters even more.
Cute poem for children to have better regard for other beings.
"Lift up thy torch, O Year, and let us see" - Madison Julius Cawein; The New Year... https://www.poemine.com/Madison-Juli...-New-Year.html
The new year. Enjoyed the poem, specially the play with opposing terms.
"My heart was full of softening showers". "My Heart was Full" by Stevie Smith
https://allpoetry.com/My-Heart-Was-Full
Short and sweet by Stevie :)
"Nymph of the downward smile and sidelong glance!" - John Keats; Sonnet VI: To G. A. W.... https://www.simple-poetry.com/poems/...-w-62743933635
Infatuated sonnet by Keats.
"Oh, give me a home where the buffalo"."The Western Home" by Brewster Higley
https://allpoetry.com/The-Western-Home
Very familiar first stanza... and now I've read the rest of the poem... enjoyed :)
"Poor the pleasure" - Christina Georgina Rossetti; Memento Mori... https://www.poetrycat.com/christina-...i/memento-mori
Stern poem( remember that you are a mortal)!
Author with surname starting with "Q":
"CLOSE now thine eyes and rest secure;"."A Good-night" by Francis Quarles
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/quarles1.html#2
A good night indeed... Enjoyed :)
"Regal the earth seems with diamonds today," - Nancy Rebecca Campbell Glass; The Sleet... https://allpoetry.com/The-Sleet
The Sleet-Loved the beautiful images!
"Sancta Maria! turn thine eyes"."Sancta Maria" by Edgar Allan Poe
https://allpoetry.com/Sancta-Maria
Enjoyed Poe's devotional poem :)
"The shadows lay along Broadway," - Nathaniel Parker Willis; Unseen Spirits... https://allpoetry.com/Unseen-Spirits
"Unseen Spirits"- Victorian morals.
"Uncle, whose inventive brains"."Uncle" by Harry Graham
https://www.poemine.com/Harry-Graham/Uncle.html
Lol tragic poem of the inventive and advantaged... enjoyed :)
"View not this Spire by Measure giv'n" - Matthew Prior; Engraven on a COLUMN In the Church of Halstead in Essex, The spire of which, burnt down by Lightning, was rebuilt at the Expense of Mr. Samuel Fiske, 1717.... https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry....18-w1070.shtml
"Engraven on a column..."Enjoyed this sober poem.
"Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high"."Where the Mind Is Without Fear" by Rabindranath Tagore
https://allpoetry.com/Where-The-Mind-Is-Without-Fear
"... let my country awake" :) Task done? Otherwise enjoyed :)
"xenophobia" - David Alexander Walker; All ******* Up... https://hellopoetry.com/poem/1586903/all-trumped-up/
Alas, no! Worried!:(
"Xenophobia", to the point! Enjoyed!
"Ye have sung me your songs, ye have chanted your rimes".John McCrae, "The Song of the Derelict"
https://www.poeticous.com/poets/john...f-the-derelict
A moving sea shanty of a ship left derelict; her sister 'Terrible" hosting Davey Jones locker... Enjoyed :)
"Zigzag Universe says: "I am the space of Devananda" Way of God "and" - Jose Luis Carreño Troncoso; Zig Zag Universe... https://hellopoetry.com/poem/4113889/zig-zag-universe/
Curious poem that looks more like a treaty. Thought it was an ancient author but seems to be contemporaneous with similar looking works that can be had as free e-books at Amazon.
"am was. are leaves few this. is these a or"."am was" by e e cummings
https://allpoetry.com/am-was
Concise and to the point (just kidding)... Thank heavens for the analysis... enjoyed :)
"Behold! a giant am I!" - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; The Windmill... https://www.poetrycat.com/henry-wads...w/the-windmill
re cummings : Lol, yes, soo easy to understand! ;)
The Windmill-Charming poem!
"Clear and cool, clear and cool,"."The Tide River" by Charles Kingsley
https://www.poetrycat.com/charles-ki...the-tide-river
The poem begins with a pristine river that then enters into civilization and its resultant pollution, only for redemption before it enters the sea... similar to our purity as children that as we grow become worldly, with redemption available... Enjoyed :)
"Down in the dear West Country, there's a garden where I know" - Fay Inchfawn; The Lad's Love by the Gate... https://www.simple-poetry.com/poems/...te-33246274813
"The Lad's Love by the Gate..." Lovely poem!
"Each morning I pass on my way to work".""Each morning I pass on my way to work" by Lesbia Harford
https://www.poemine.com/Lesbia-Harfo...y-to-work.html
Enjoyed very much the content and the structure of the poem :)
"Full many a shining wit one sees," - Friedrich Schiller; Breadth And Depth... https://allpoetry.com/Breadth-And-Depth
Enjoyed Schiller's poem!
"Gather around me,"."The Other One" by Robert William Servic! I
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...ther-one-31064
A touching poem about the loss of a little one. Enjoyed :) A wiki of the author: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert...%20in%20Dawson.
"He is known" - Deepak Kumar Pattanayak; Game of God... https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/game-of-god-2/
RS- Quite an adventurous life! Thanks for the link, tailor.
"Game of God..." A sad story with a happy end!
"It's a year almost that I have not seen her:"A Bird Song" by Christina Georgina Rossetti
https://www.poetrycat.com/christina-...ti/a-bird-song
Sweet little poem... Enjoyed :)
"Jessie, Jessie Cameron," - Christina Georgina Rossetti; Jessie Cameron... https://www.simple-poetry.com/poems/...on-57492066685
Enjoyed the saga of Jessie Cameron!
"Knows how to forget!"."Knows how to forget!" By Emily Dickinson
https://bloggingdickinson.blogspot.c...to-forget.html
I forget: What was the poem about ? Lol, playful poem, and also enjoyed the summary :)
"Light cloud pavilion light rain" - Wang Wei; A Study... https://allpoetry.com/A-Study
Loved the poem! As the first translation shows, Chinese seems to get down to essentials: no articles, no prepositions or conjunctions that glue words and sentences together. Enjoyed one comment which begged the poet to keep up his good work.
"My young son asks me: Must I learn mathematics?". "1940" by Berthold Brecht.
https://www.poetrycat.com/bertolt-brecht/1940
"Enjoyed one comment which begged the poet to keep up his good work." - Lololololololol !!!
Mathematics: high schoolers lament learning geometry yet will cut corners consistently through a rectangular quad.
French: the only way I can remember how many days are in each month is using an old French song I learned in the 2nd grade.
History: Bertolt Brecht lived through WW I and WW II and died in East Germany... plenty of reasons to remember history IMHO.
Enjoyed the sombre poem :)
"Nothing is new; we walk where others went;" - Robert Herrick; Nothing New... https://www.simple-poetry.com/poems/...ew-56060668165
Nothing New-minimalistic and to the point!
"Once I am sure there's nothing going on". "Church Going" by Philip Larkin
https://www.poetrycat.com/philip-larkin/church-going
https://poemanalysis.com/philip-larkin/church-going/
Lol, fell asleep at the keyboard again... found this .pdf for a summary of Church Going... https://www.uoanbar.edu.iq/eStoreImages/Bank/410.pdf ... a sad poem for me though I enjoyed Larkin's musings :)
"Places I love come back to me like music," - Sara Teasdale; Places... https://allpoetry.com/poem/8504319-P...-Sara-Teasdale
Lol! Thanks for the pdf but sleep comes first!
"Places". "Beautiful poem!
"Quick through the gates of Fairyland"."Early Spring" by Fay Inchfawn
https://www.public-domain-poetry.com...y-spring-21143
Fairyland! A South Wind would be welcome now... Enjoyed :)
"Rose, when I remember you," - Sara Teasdale; To Rose... https://allpoetry.com/To-Rose
"To Rose"-Loved this poem! One almost sees Rose at two.
Two poems starting with "S" by Yoaa Buson:
"Straw sandal half sunk"."Straw sandal half sunk" by Yosa Buson
"Sparrow singing--"."Sparrow singing" by Yosa Buson
Both on https://www.poemine.com/poems/S/287/
https://asianartnewspaper.com/yosa-buson/