Enjoyed this poem of a new marriage, especially the two-liner first lines and those between the quatrains :)
"His image the Dog did not know," - Walter Crane; The Dog & The Shadow... https://artvee.com/dl/the-dog-and-the-shadow-3/
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Enjoyed this poem of a new marriage, especially the two-liner first lines and those between the quatrains :)
"His image the Dog did not know," - Walter Crane; The Dog & The Shadow... https://artvee.com/dl/the-dog-and-the-shadow-3/
Enjoyed very much the humorous children poem and specially the illustrations. :)
"It is not the world"."Latitudes of Exil" by Michael Jackson
https://poetryarchive.org/poem/latitudes-exile/
Wonderful albeit a puzzle of a poem for me... tried for some reconciliation on the dates surrounding Pablo Neruda's passing: https://www.onthisday.com/events/date/1973/september... perhaps the return of Peron or Allende deposed in coup ? Enjoyed :)
"jazz harmonica" - Dayna Genevieve; jazz harmonica / haiku... https://www.jerryjazzmusician.com/a-...z-poems-vol-1/
Not an easy poem, these new poems never are.I liked the images.
"KATE is like a violet, Gertrude's like a rose,"."A Garden of Girls" by Edith Nesbit
https://allpoetry.com/A-Garden-Of-Girls
Enjoyed the poem and summary :)
"love is more thicker than forget" - e.e. cummings; forget]... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...er-than-forget
Spoken by the poet: https://www.google.com/search?q="lov...XxH-91aGc,st:0
Charming ee poem! Renaissance voices seem to ring here:https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Lov...th_burn_unseen
"Musicians wrestle everywhere --" by Emily Dickinson
https://allpoetry.com/Musicians-wrestle-everywhere
Wonderful translation of a Petrarchan sonnet by Luís de Camões (Portuguese: https://www.culturagenial.com/poema-...vaz-de-camoes/ :)
Beautiful wrestle with a poem by dear Emily... Enjoyed :)
"neither for me honey nor the honey bee” - Sapho; (295)... https://joshuagrasso-58239.medium.co...s-b51edc766bb7
Thanks for the link in Portuguese! :) It is a famous if not the most famous of Camões sonnets. But where does Petrarca come in?
My point was that some of the antithetical love poems of the Renaissance (it hardly could have been Camões) somehow influenced ee cummings.
Sapho sadly behind inscription wall.
"Over the shoulders and slopes of the dune "."Daisies" by Bliss Carman
https://allpoetry.com/Daises
as opposed to a Shakespearian sonnet: (ABAB CDCD EFEF GG)Quote:
A Petrarchan sonnet, also known as an Italian sonnet, is a 14-line poem written in iambic pentameter and structured as an octave (8 lines) followed by a sestet (6 lines). The octave typically follows an ABBAABBA rhyme scheme, and the sestet often uses CDECDE or CDCDCD. It's named after the 14th-century Italian poet Francesco Petrarca (often anglicized as Petrarch). - Wikipedia
Influenced... absolutely!
Sorry about Sapho's page... odd, it allowed me in... the poem is complete with the first line.
Daisies: Delightful poem :)
"Pale hands I love beside the Shalimar," - Laurence Hope/(Adela Florence Cory Nicolson); Kashmiri Song... https://allpoetry.com/Kashmiri-Song
I see. I understood something totally different, that Camões' sonnet was a translation of a sonnet by Petrarch.
"QUEEN of my Life, who gave me for my song"."A Song of Parting" by Edith Nesbit
https://allpoetry.com/A-Song-Of-Parting
Mostly tender ways of parting... Enjoyed :)
"RISE, O days, from your fathomless deeps, till you loftier
and fiercer sweep! - Walt Whitman; RISE O DAYS FROM YOUR FATHOM-
LESS DEEPS... https://whitmanarchive.org/item/ppp.00473_00635
Very Whitman. Grandiose and intense. Enjoyed!
"Still must the poet as of old,"."To Kathleen" by Edna Millay
https://www.poetrycat.com/edna-st-vi...ay/to-kathleen
Enjoyed :) Found a summary at AllPoetry: https://allpoetry.com/To-Kathleen
"Too happy Time dissolves" - Emily Dickinson; Too happy Time dissolves itself... https://allpoetry.com/poem/15109021-...mily-Dickinson
Enjoyed the summary on E M's poem.
About Happiness (English lyrics)
https://www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/Br...lation/english
The original song by Antonio Jobin and lyrics by poet Vinicius de Moraes
https://www.letras.mus.br/tom-jobim/53/
"Under a daisied bank"."The Milkmaid" by Thomas Hardy
https://www.poetrycat.com/thomas-hardy/the-milkmaid
"Happiness is like a drop / Of dew on a flower petal / It shines, serenely / Then, smoothly, it oscillates / And falls, like a tear of love" :)
Link said I had an ad blocker on (I don't think so?)... used this link: https://www.google.com/search?client...NQh1BW5SQ,st:0
Enjoyed :) but who's Fred ?
"Venus, redress a wrong thats done" - William Cartwright; A Complaint against Cupid... https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_te...?TextId=103706
Those link are all very complicated. I have an add blocker.
Fred seems to be the guy the milkmaid would like to date who likes another girl.
Lol! Charming complaint!
"We sailed..."."Honeybee, Inner Hebrides" by Valerie Gillies
https://poetryarchive.org/poem/honeybee-inner-hebrides/
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Ah, Fred, lol.
Enjoyed this honeybee tale :)
Poem(s) by a poet with an 'x' in their name:
"The blue work clothes are covered in grease" - Xiao Hai; We Come from the Workshop... https://worldliteraturetoday.org/202...poems-xiao-hai
Forgive the untidy last post. I tried to correct it and the poem threatened to disappear.
A legit communist poems. :)
"You've asked me what the lobster is weaving there with"."Enigmas" by Pablo Neruda.
https://allpoetry.com/Enigmas
Interesting poem... Pablo Neruda channeling Jacques Cousteau... Enjoyed :)
Poem(s) by a poet with a 'z' AND an 'x' in their name:
"The mountains are bathed in spring’s radiance." - Zhang Xu; ‘Guest in the Mountain’《山中留客》... https://ink-and-brush.com/zhang-xu-calligrapher/
Delicate poem! He was also famous for his calligraphy and his eccentricity!
"And God stepped out on space,"The Creation" by James Weldon Johnson
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8526373-T...Weldon-Johnson
Enjoyed this revised creation story :)
"Buildings above the leafless trees" - Sara Teasdale; Central Park At Dusk... https://allpoetry.com/Central-Park-At-Dusk
Sara Teasdale is so romantic. This poem reminds me of the beginning of one of the most famous Goethe poems, "The Nightsong of the Wanderer". The context is different, nature is preparing to rest:
https://sites.google.com/site/german...r-s-night-song (second poem).
"Cats sleep anywhere, any table, any chair."."Cats sleep anywhere, any table, any chair." by Eleanor Farjeon
https://huasaicats.com/catpoems/
Enjoyed Goethe's poem... I would have taken poetic license and rendered the last line "You too shall rest.
Love, love, Eleanor's cat poem :) Will have to find time today to read the rest of the poets' cat poems later :)
"Daily the fair Sultan's daughter" - Heinrich Heine; The Asra... https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_te...l?TextId=37833
Summary: https://allpoetry.com/Der-Asra
I fully agree with you. In fhe English version the "too" in the second position sounds more natural.
Rather ambivalent about this narrative poem.
"Every time I kiss you"."Every Time I Kiss You" by Nizar Qabbani
https://www.best-poems.net/nizar_qab...r_qabbani.html
Very evocative... Enjoyed :)
"Fancy! Nymph, that loves to lye" - John Dyer; Towy Landscape... https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_te...?TextId=537794
Wikipedia (Grongar, Hill): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grongar_Hill
Enjoyed the poem and the Wikipedia text about its context and creation.
"Great, wide, beautiful, wonderful World,"."Great, Wide, Beautiful, Wonderful World" by William Brighty Rands
https://www.poemine.com/William-Brig...ful-World.html
https://www.scribd.com/document/4260...onderful-world
Wonderful poem :) Enjoyed the commentary.
"HARD 'tis on a fox's traces" - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; The Fox And The Huntsman... https://allpoetry.com/The-Fox-And-The-Huntsman
Curious poem by Goethe. It is easier to understand in German.
"in this dream world"."Dreams" by Taigu Ryokan
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8602755-D...y-Taigu-Ryokan
Wonderful haiku :)
"Just as a flower, in lovely night," - Friedrich (or Fritz) Lienhard; Faith/Wie eine Blume in milder Nacht... https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_te...l?TextId=51312
Enjoyed the poem, but the poet was not as nice as the poem makes suppose: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Lienhard
"KNOWING our needs, hardly knowing our powers,"."A Last Appeal" by Edith Nesbit
https://allpoetry.com/A-Last-Appeal
Eeesh... you're right re: FL
"Light boat south hill go" - Wang Wei; South Hill... https://mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-33290
Enjoyed "South Hill ".
"Music curls"."Polyphony in a Cathedral" by A Tessimond
https://allpoetry.com/Polyphony-In-A-Cathedral
Enjoyed :)
"No ripple stirs the water," - Sophie M. Almon-Hensley; Noon... https://www.simple-poetry.com/poems/noon-53764426941
Enjoyed the bucolic poem.
"O simple Nature, how I do delight"."Nature" by John Clare
https://www.simple-poetry.com/poems/nature-73404323210
There occurs me a dialogue between this poem and another famous Goethe poem turned into a song by Schubert:
https://oxfordsong.org/song/heidenr%C3%B6slein
Wonderful thoughts on thoughts of nature :)
Delightful song !
"Perhaps we go with wind and cloud and sun," - Stephen Vincent Benét; Nos Immortales... https://www.simple-poetry.com/poems/...es-13058820834
Man mingling with nature.
Poem by a poet with "Q" in his name.
"The bowers lost in mist,"Treading on Grass - At an Inn of Chenzhou- Poetry of Qin Gua
https://www.cn-poetry.com/qinguan-po...-chenzhou.html
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A poem of longing from banishment... Enjoyed :)
"Roses, ah, how fair ye be ! " - Theodore Martin; Depression... https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_te...l?TextId=55152
Love and fading roses.
""She can't be unhappy," you said,"."Snowfall " by Sara Teasdale
https://allpoetry.com/Snowfall
Sad poem and true... wonderful use of language... Enjoyed :)
"The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes." - Czeslaw Milosz; Account... https://www.poetrycat.com/czeslaw-milosz/account
Milosz makes one think.
"Unmindful of the roses,"One Sea-Side Grave" by Christina Georgina Rossetti
https://www.poetrycat.com/christina-...sea-side-grave