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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