Preludium to America | Poem by William Blake

Preludium to America Poem  ………………. by William Blake _______________________________________________________________________________________ The shadowy Daughter of Urthona stood before red Orc, When fourteen suns had faintly journey’d o’er his dark abode:His food she brought in iron baskets, his drink in cups of iron:Crown’d with a helmet and dark hair the nameless female stood;A quiver with its burning stores, a … Read more…

Provide Provide | Poem by Robert Frost

Provide Provide Poem  ………………. by Robert Frost _______________________________________________________________________________________ The witch that came (the withered hag)To wash the steps with pail and rag,Was once the beauty Abishag, The picture pride of Hollywood. Too many fall from great and goodFor you to doubt the likelihood. Die early and avoid the fate. Or if predestined to die late,Make up … Read more…

Refusal | Poem by Maya Angelou

Refusal Poem  ………………. by Maya Angelou _______________________________________________________________________________________ Beloved,In what other lives or landsHave I known your lipsYour HandsYour Laughter braveIrreverent. Those sweet excesses thatI do adore. What surety is thereThat we will meet again,On other worlds someFuture time undated. I defy my body’s haste. Without the promiseOf one more sweet encounterI will not deign to die. … Read more…

Remembrance | Poem by Maya Angelou

Remembrance Poem  ………………. by Maya Angelou _______________________________________________________________________________________ Your hands easyweight, teasing the beeshived in my hair, your smile at theslope of my cheek. On theoccasion, you pressabove me, glowing, spoutingreadiness, mystery rapesmy reason When you have withdrawnyour self and the magic, whenonly the smell of yourlove lingers betweenmy breasts, then, onlythen, can I greedily consumeyour presence. … Read more…

REVERSIBILITY | Poem by Charles Baudelaire

REVERSIBILITY Poem  ………………. by Charles Baudelaire _______________________________________________________________________________________ ANGEL of gaiety, have you tasted grief? Shame and remorse and sobs and weary spite, And the vague terrors of the fearful night That crush the heart up like a crumpled leaf? Angel of gaiety, have you tasted grief? Angel of kindness, have you tasted hate? With hands clenched … Read more…

Sonnet 01 – I thought once how Theocritus had sung | Poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sonnet 01 I thought once how Theocritus had sung Poem  ………………. by Elizabeth Barrett Browning _______________________________________________________________________________________ I thought once how Theocritus had sungOf the sweet years, the dear and wished-for years,Who each one in a gracious hand appearsTo bear a gift for mortals, old or young:And, as I mused it in his antique tongue,I saw, in … Read more…

Sonnet 02 – But only three in all Gods universe | Poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sonnet 02 But only three in all Gods universe Poem  ………………. by Elizabeth Barrett Browning _______________________________________________________________________________________ But only three in all God’s universeHave heard this word thou hast said,?Himself, besideThee speaking, and me listening! and repliedOne of us . . . that was God, . . . and laid the curseSo darkly on my eyelids, as … Read more…

Sonnet 03 – Unlike are we unlike O princely Heart! | Poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sonnet 03 Unlike are we unlike O princely Heart Poem  ………………. by Elizabeth Barrett Browning _______________________________________________________________________________________ Unlike are we, unlike, O princely Heart!Unlike our uses and our destinies. Our ministering two angels look surpriseOn one another, as they strike athwartTheir wings in passing. Thou, bethink thee, artA guest for queens to social pageantries,With gages from a … Read more…