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"“O God,” she cries, “help Bregenz, / And bring me there in time!” A wonderful historical tale :)
"How many more, I must ask myself," - John Updike; 61 And 2/3... https://www.poeticous.com/john-updike/61-and-23
;)
Updike-Very original construction of the poem. The images almost dissolve into colors.
"In a nice turn of phrase"."Teamwork Really Does Make the Dream Work" by Chris Gaither
https://www.poeticous.com/chris-gait...the-dream-work
Lol, simple but profound... Enjoyed :)
"Just a little every day–" - Ella Wheeler Wilcox; That’s the Way... https://www.poeticous.com/ella-wheel...that-s-the-way
Enjoyed this poem that tells about doing things without haste.
"Kiss me, Miami, thou most constant one!"."To The Miami" by Paul Lawrence Dunbar
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/po...the-miami.html
"... There is a poem in thine every phase;... Did poets seek celestial flame,...". Enjoyed :)
"Love, throw thy lattice open to the night," - Frank Dempster Sherman; Nocturne ... https://www.litscape.com/author/Fran.../Nocturne.html
Enjoyed this charming minstrel poem!
"My dear one is mine as mirrors are lonely,"."Miranda" by W H Auden
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8493027-Miranda-by-W-H-Auden
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_(The_Tempest) Auden's Miranda may be inspired by Shakespeare's character
A fitting villanelle for Pendragon's birthday by a master poet. Enjoyed :)
True! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sea_and_the_Mirror
"Now I can sing of happy things" - Jessie Belle Rittenhouse; Joy... https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/jes...ttenhouse/joy/
Wonderful, tailor, this confirms my suspicion! Here is a link to part of the whole poem, some of the lyrics weren't transcribed: https://genius.com/albums/Wh-auden/T...he-tempest.And here is a link to Shakespeares play: https://www.folger.edu/explore/shake...-tempest/read/
En-joy-ed Rittenhouses poem and the new site
"October gave a party"."October's party" by George Cooper
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/geo...ctobers-party/
Your first link had some mischief done, here is the corrected one: https://genius.com/albums/Wh-auden/T...-s-the-tempest
Will have to peruse Shakespeare's The Tempus another time :)
Delightful poem :)
"Pens make word pictures in a row," - Annette Wynne; Pens Make Word Pictures... https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/ann...word-pictures/
Sorry and thanks, tailor! Sure! Shakespeare is a world
by itself. I included the play only as a reference.
Charming poem about writing!
A poem by a poet with "Q" in his name.
"From lovely mountains and rivers you"."Tea"
by Jing Qiufeng
https://modernchinesepoetry.com/poems.php
"... Steeped in dulcet melodious tunes,"... "you taste the river in your tea." Delicate poem, enjoyed very much :)
"Raining so much after so much heat from the early summer sun that I" - Nelson D Reyes; About Quark... https://www.poeticous.com/nelson-d-reyes/about-quark
Enjoyed the narrative poem!
"Spring summons the earth to a wedding"."On thin Ice" by Salomeja Neris
https://allpoetry.com/On-Thin-Ice
Melancholy poem... One mustn't tread on thin ice. Enjoyed :)
"The solemn Sea of Silence lies between us;" - Ella Wheeler Wilcox ; The Speech of Silence... https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/ell...ch-of-silence/
Wonderful love poem! Sometimes I think that people from former times were poorer in technology but had a richer language.
"Unrhymed, unrhythmical, the chatter goes:"." At the Party" by W. H. Auden
https://allpoetry.com/At-the-Party
So true.
"You cannot read me like an open book. / I'm more myself than you will ever look." :)
"VEX not the Muse with idle prayers,--" - Oliver Wendell Holmes; In Vita Minerva... https://allpoetry.com/In-Vita-Minerva
A touching nostalgic poem. It seems that inspiration ages as well as other things.
"Words fitly spoken—how they cheer"."Words filly spoken" by Ellwood Roberts
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/ell...-fitly-spoken/
Wonderful sentiment to remind us of the healing power of "fitly" words... Enjoyed :)
On a different note:
"X and asterisk: shorthand all night flowing" - David Wojahn; STALIN'S LIBRARY CARD: 3. THE RIGHT TO KILL... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...s-library-card
Poems depicting the horrors of the Stalin era. Reminds me of the years of our dictatorship.
"you reflect on how they tried to bury us, our bodies"."After they throw eggs at your house«
by Natalie Linh Bolderston
https://poems.poetrysociety.org.uk/p...at-your-house/
Disturbing poem with a surprising use of language... Enjoyed :)
Poem by a poet with a 'z' in their name:
"A dear dream" - Zahra Ahmad; Yearn for a Degree that is so Elusive... https://shaheenfoundation.co.in/inde...hra-ahmad.html
Oh my! The pain a d anxiety to get a university degree!
"A little bit of fool in me".
https://www.poemine.com/James-A-Eman...Evergreen.html
"A little bit of fool in me / Keeps evergreen my inmost tree." Enjoyed :)
"Book, book, I have found" - Annette Wynne; Book, Book... https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/ann...nne/book-book/
A friendly poem about book's contents.
"Caught — the bubble"."Sonnet " by Elisabeth Bishop
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8493509-S...izabeth-Bishop
Enjoyed, though loose mercury isn't a thing to trifle with.
"Dear my friend, we are now parted," - Alexander Pushkin; Despair ... https://www.litscape.com/author/Alex...n/Despair.html
Agree about mercury.
The construction of the verses strikes me as somewhat unusual.
Here is another poem by him on a different vibe:
"Evening Zephyr". "Spanish Love Song" by Alexander Pushkin
https://www.litscape.com/author/Alex...Love_Song.html
Enjoyed :) The river Guadalquivir: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guadalquivir
And another...
"Frost and sun -- the day is wondrous!" - Alexander Pushkin; Winter Morning... https://www.litscape.com/author/Alex...r_Morning.html
Thanks for the Wikipedia link on the river Gualdaquivir
Wonderful depiction of nature, but again at some points the word order of the verse seems to unusual.
One more:
"God's birdlet knows"."The Birdlet" by Alexander Pushkin.
https://www.litscape.com/author/Alex...let_Knows.html
I think the translations may have been either difficult or inaccurate. Enjoyed the freedom of the birdie, man's fate not so much in this instance.
"Hark to the waves that roll" - Achsa White Sprague; Hark To The Waves That Roll... https://www.litscape.com/author/Achs...That_Roll.html
Agree!
Melancholic waves that roll.
"In thought I wandered through the falling brightness"."The Love Leaf"
by Ruby Archer
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/poems-about-leaves/
Lovely poem that ends with melancholy... Enjoyed :)
"Just as I am, without one plea," - Charlotte Elliott; Just As I Am... https://allpoetry.com/Just-As-I-Am
A very intense poem!
"Know'st thou not at the fall of the leaf"."Autumn Song" by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/poems-about-leaves/
"And how sleep seems a goodly thing"... an interesting tension in the poem. Enjoyed :)
"LET thy tears, Le Vayer, let them flow;" - Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin); TO MONSIEUR DE LA MOTHE LE VAYER(Upon the death of his son)... https://www.poetry-archive.com/m/to_...othe_le_vayer/
Surprised by this sad poem of comedian Molière!
"My tired hawse nickers for his own home bars;"."The Wind is Blowin'"
by Charles Badger Clark
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/cowboy-poems/
I had used Molière's poem's L2 in a recent limerick and thought to share his poem in its entirety here :)
"A hoof clicks out a spark. / The dim creek flickers to the lonesome stars;" - Love these lines. I hadn't thought that a horses' hoof could start a spark, but yeah: another hazard here in the Gold Country which is also horse country. Enjoyed :)
"November winds were loud and high," - Achsa White Sprague; The Angel's Visit ... https://www.litscape.com/author/Achs...els_Visit.html
Glad that this gloomy story ended well. Seems to be a part of the bio of the poet herself! Is it already cold there or can people still go out?
"O lonesome sea-gull, floating far"."Sea-Birds by Elizabeth Akers
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/poems-about-home/
The sea-gull searching, "vainly" seeking rest while out to sea in parallel with a human's soul at the end of the poem also being queried "Where is thy mate, and where thy nest?" - the word thy here being the only italicized word in the poem. Enjoyed :)
"Pale in the east a filmy moon" - Herbert Bates; The Pioneers... https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/poems-about-the-west/
Didn't like so much the classical manicheistic representation of the Indians as enemies and the white men as victims.
"QUEEN of every moving measure,".Joseph Warton,"Ode to Music"
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/warton02.html#3
Enjoyed the ode to music :)
"Roll on, O shining sun," - John Hay; Expectation... https://allpoetry.com/poem/8544719-E...on-by-John-Hay
Enjoyed the hopefulness of the poem!
"Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,"."Funeral Blues" by W. H. Auden
https://allpoetry.com/Funeral-Blues
Enjoyed :) A bit of background on Auden to perhaps get a better insight into his "Funeral Blues" https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2018/...nius-w-h-auden
The antithesis of todays Super Moon (the Cold Moon) perhaps...
"The moon is tired and old;" - Celia Thaxter; The Waning Moon... https://www.litscape.com/author/Celi...ning_Moon.html
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