Over and over, like a tune-
The Recollection plays
Drum off the Phantom Barttlmenets
Cornet of Paradise-
Snatches, from Baptized Generations
Candences too grand
But for justified Processions
At the Lord'r Right hand
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coven poems
Posted: 15:56:20 - Aug 31 2008
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Of Coures ----- I prayed --
And did God care?
He cared as much as on the Air
A bird-had stamped her foot
And cired 'give me'-
My reason LIfe
I had -but for Youself
twere better Charity
To leave me in the Atoms Tomb
Merry and Nought, and gay, and numb-
Than this smart Misery.
William Ellery Channing
(1818-1901)
The Earth Spirit
Then the Spirit of the Earth
Her gentle voice like a soft wtaters song-
None from my loins have ever birth
But what to joy and love belong
I faithful am, and give to thee
Blessings great and give them free.
I have woven shrouds of air
In a loom of hurrying light,
For the trees which blossoms bear,
And gilded them with sheets of bright;
i fall unpon the grass like loves first kiss,
I make the golden flies and their find bliss.
I paint the hedge-rows in the lane,
And clover white and red the pathways bear,
i laugh aloud in sudden gusts of rain
Tosee the ocean lash himself in air
I Never Saw a Purple Cow
I never saw a Purple Cow
I never hope to see one
But i can tell you anyhow
Id rathr see than be one
Goeorgia J ohnson
(1886-1966)
I What to Die While You Love me
I want to die while you love me
While yet you hold me fair,
While laughter lies upon my lips'
And lights are in my hair.
I want to die while you love me .
And bear to that still bed
Your kisses turbulent, unspent,
o warm me whan Im dead
I want to die while you love me
Oh who would care to live
Till love has nothing more to ask
And nothing more to give
I want to die while you love me
And never never see
The glory of this perfect day
Grow dim or cease to be
The Poet's Dealy
In vain I see the morining rise
In vain observe the western balaz,
Who idly look to other skies,
Expecting life by other ways.
Amidst such boundless wealth without,
I only still am poor within,
The birds have sung their summer out
But still my spring does not begin.
Shall I THEN WAIT THE AUTUMN WIND,
Compelled to seek a milder day,
And leave no curious nest behind,
No woods still echoning to my lay.
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Grotesque
The city has tits in rows.
The country is in the main -male,
It butts me with blunt stub-horns
Forces me to oppose it
Or be trampled.
The city is full of milk
And lies still for the most part.
These crack skulls
And spill brains
Against her stomah.
am Bound ,I Am Boud
I Am bound I am boud, for a distant shore,
by a lonely isle, by a far Azore
there it is, there it is, the treasure iseek,
On the barren sands desolate creek.
Circles
Naturw centres into balls ,
And her proud ephemerals
Fast to surface and outside
Scan the profile of the sphere
Knew they what that signified
A new geneis were here
but Nature whistled with all her winds
Did as she pleased and her way
Climacteric
I am not wisher for my age
Nor skilful by my grief;
Life loiters at the books first pages-
Ah! cukd we turn the leaf
Shakspear
I see all human wits
Are measured but a few;
Unmeasured still my Shakspeare sites,
Lone as the blessed jew
Poet 2
To clothe the fiery thought
In simple words succeds,
For still the craft of genius is
To mask a king in weeds.
poet 1
Ever the Poet from the land
Streers his bark and trims his sial
Right out to sea his courses stand
New worlds to find in pinnace frail.
Days
Daughters of time , the hypocrtic days,
Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes,
And marching single in an endless file,
Bring diadems and fagots in thir hands.
To each they offer gifts his well.
Bread, kingoms,stars,and the sky that holds them all.
I, in my pleached garden, watched the pomp,
Forgot my morning wishes, hastily
Took a few herbs and apples, and the Day
Turned and departed silent.I too., late
uder her solemn fillet saw the scorm
Aladdin
When i was a beggarly boy
And lived in a cellar damp,
Ihad not a friend nor a toy
But i had Aladdin's lamp;
When i could not sleep for the cold ,
Ihad fire enough in my brin,
And builded, with roofs of gold,
My beautiful castles in Spain!
Since than i have toiled day and night,
I have money and power good store.
But i'd give all my lamps of silver bright
For the one that is mine no moe,
Take, fortune, whatever you choose,
You gave, and may snatch again,
I have nothing 't would pain me lose,
For I own no more castles Spain!
American Indian Poems:1836-1859
Chant to the -fly
(chippewa original)
Wau wau tay see!
Wau wau tay see!
E mow e shin
Tahe bwau ne-baun-e wee!
Be eghaun-be eghaun-ewee!
Wu wau tay see!
Wu Wau tay see!
was sa koon ain je gun.
Was sa koon ain je gun.
Benjamin Frankiln
(1706-1790)
Epitaph in Bookish Style.
The body
of
Benjamin Frankiln
Printer
(Like the cover of an old book
Its contents torn out
and strip of its lettering and gilding)
Lies here, food for worms.
But the work shall not be lost
For it will (as he belived)appear once more
in a new and more elegant edition
Revised and Corrected
by the Author.
Carl Sandburg
(1878-1967)
Bones
Sling me under the sea.
Pack me down in the salt ans wet.
No Hamlet hold my jawa and speak
How jokes are gone and empty is my mouth.
Long , green eyed scavengers shall pick my eyes,
Purple fish play hide-and-seek,
And i shall be song of thunder, crash of sea,
Down on the floors of salt and wet.
Sling me .... under th sea
Carl Sandburg
(1878-1967)
Fog
The fog comes
on littil cat feet.
it sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and than moves on
From the South: 2
(chippewa original)
From the south they came,Birds of war
Hark! to their passing scream.
I wish the body of thr fiercest,
As swift, as cruel, as strong.
I cast my body to the chance of fighting.
Happy shall i be to lie in a place ,
In that place where the fight was,
Beyond the enemy's line.
From the the South:1
(chippewa orighinal)
from the south they come,
The brides, the warlike birds,
With sounding wings
I wish to change my self
to the body of that swift bird.
I throw my body in the strife.
Samlon Brook
Samlon Brook,
Penichook,
Ye sweet waters of my brain,
han shall i look,
Or cast the hook,
in your waves again?
Silver eels,
Wooden creeds,
These the baits that still allure,
And dragon fly
That floated by,
May they still endure?
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