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Showing posts with label Poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Poetry. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 25, 2026

What Care?

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George Wither (1588-1667),  The Shepherd’s Resolution (1619):                     Shall I, wasting in despaire,                     Dye beca...
Thursday, January 16, 2025

No Man Knows The Other

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Hermann Hesse, In the Mist = Im Nebel , tr. Harry Steinhauer:           Strange, to wander in the mist!           Every bush and stone is lo...
Wednesday, December 18, 2024

We Were One

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Heloise to Abelard, in Abelard and Heloise: The Love Letters, A Poetical Rendering , tr. Ella C. Bennett (San Francisco & New York: Paul...
Sunday, October 27, 2024

Nought But Death

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Abraham Cowley, Constantia and Philetus (written around 1630, when Cowley was only twelve years old), ll. 445-476:          I t rust (deare ...
Tuesday, February 13, 2024

First Affections

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William Wordsworth,  Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood :            [...]  High instincts before which o...
Saturday, January 27, 2024

Melancholy Bird

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Charlotte Smith, Sonnet III.,  To A Nightingale:                Poor melancholy bird—that all night long                Tell’st to the Moon ...
Friday, January 5, 2024

In Yourself Encased

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Fyodor Tyutchev,  Silentium , tr. Anatoly Liberman (in his On the Heights of Creation ):                     Speak not, lie deep, do not rev...
Sunday, September 17, 2023

The Lonely Road

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Lermontov, Alone I Pass Along the Lonely Road  (tr. John Pollen):                Alone I pass along the lonely road,                Thro’ ga...
Sunday, June 4, 2023

The Best Thing In The World

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning, The Best Thing In The World :                What’s the best thing in the world?                June-rose, by Ma...
Saturday, June 3, 2023

On Life

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Palladas,  Anthologia Græca  (Jacobs III. 141, cxxviii.), the epigram is trans. by Rev. Robert Bland:                Waking, we burst, at ea...

Life's A Tragedy

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Edmund Spenser, Complaints: The Tears of the Muses :                For all man's life me seemes a tragedy,                Full of sad s...
Wednesday, May 3, 2023

The Idly Read

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James Hurnard, Arthur and Helen (found in: James Hurnard: A Memoir, Chiefly Autobiographical, with Selections from his Poems , edt. Louisa B...
Sunday, March 19, 2023

Lente Sed Attente

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George Wither, A Collection of Emblems, Ancient and Modern ,  Illvstr . XIX., Bk. 1: Experience  proves, that Men who trust upon Their Nat...
Sunday, March 12, 2023

The Wife's Lament

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Old English Poems , tr. Cosette Faust & Stith Thompson (1918), 1. Pagan Poetry, 2. Gnomic Group, The Wife's Lament , pp. 73-74: [......
Wednesday, March 8, 2023

Lucid Love

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Émile Verhaeren, The Love Poems of  Émile Verhaeren , tr. F. S. Flint, 1916, xv.: I dedicate to your tears, to your smile, my gentlest thoug...