Lyric Poems

When I think of her sparkling face
And of her body that rocked this way and that,
When I think of her laughter,
Her jubilance that filled me,
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Thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure. This frail vessel thou emptiest again and again, and fillest it ever with fresh life.
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You speak for the lakes, the trees and the birds
You say what they'd say if they had the words.
Make PEACE and be proud, choose well every choice
Speak HOPE and speak loud, you are Nature's voice.
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O stony grey soil of Monaghan
The laugh from my love you thieved;
You took the gay child of my passion
And gave me your clod-conceived.
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Sad sad sad in blue
For sad sad sad you
The moon is all bluish tonight
The night is all dark out side
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Budger of history Brake of time You Bomb
Toy of universe Grandest of all snatched sky I cannot hate you
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Let us begin and carry up this corpse,
Singing together.
Leave we the common crofts, the vulgar thorpes
Each in its tether
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Ever been kidnapped
by a poet
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Angelic minds, they say, by simple intelligence
Behold the Forms of nature. They discern
Unerringly the Archtypes, all the verities
Which mortals lack or indirectly learn.
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I deem that there are lyric days
So ripe with radiance and cheer,
So rich with gratitude and praise
That they enrapture all the year.
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Loved to write as far back as memory goes
Without any thought for a verse to compose

Poetic expressions of innate creativity
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THE LOTUS _ Sermon of Heart
(Love Lyric)

From the bough of immortal tree,
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Come, my darling, let us dance
To the moon that beckons us
To dissolve our love in trance
Heedless of the hideous
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Ah! what pleasant visions haunt me
As I gaze upon the sea!
All the old romantic legends,
All my dreams, come back to me.
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So it is eighteen years,
Helena, since we met!
A season so endears,
Nor you nor I forget
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My poem may be yours indeed
In melody and tone,
If in its rhythm you can read
A music of your own;
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What doesn't enter then my slumbering mind?
-Derzhavin
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October has arrived - the woods have tossed
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There was an apple tree in the yard --
this would have been
forty years ago -- behind,
only meadows. Drifts
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Green leaves tap at my window like lost souls.
I trace their signatures upon the glass.
Dawn is only a few quatrains away.
I memorize the fragrance of spring rain.
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What means my name to you?...T'will die
As does the melancholy murmur
Of distant waves or, of a summer,
The forest's hushed nocturnal sigh.
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In the tempest of the mind, where emotions entwine,
A lyric unfolds, a melody of the divine.
Guilt's bitter wind, a haunting serenade,
Shame's heavy rain, a sorrowful cascade.
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Monday morning, September 30, 2024 at 6: 24 a.m. and 6: 52 a.m.

'Ultimately the air
Is bare sunlight where must be found
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A former lyric to celebrate some bode
A lyric to praise someone who is a goad
A lyric in praise of the West Wind - an abode
Of Autumn and frost; a lovely lyric that rowed
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The Long Lyric met the Short Lyric
Said
They
Together
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Lyric
Lyric words
Gush
Sprouting
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Not a word more.

Not a syllable
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Life is a well-written lyric with an uncomposed music.
Death is well-composed music for an unwritten lyric,
All drama starts with life and ends with the death
Both have a distinction of innocence with the grandeur of purity.
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Poems about Poets and Poems for Poets and Poems 'after' other Poets


Caveat Spender
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TRANSLATIONS OF THE OLDEST RHYMING POEMS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

These are translations of some of the oldest rhyming poems in the English language. While the focus is on early English rhyming poems, there is a section on early rhyming poems from other languages at the bottom of this page. The oldest Old English (i.e., Anglo-Saxon) poems did not rhyme, but were alliterative and used repetition of consonant and vowel sounds to create word-music. For example:
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THE RUIN in a Modern English Translation

'The Ruin' is one of the great poems of English antiquity. This modern English translation of one of the very best Old English/Anglo-Saxon poems is followed by footnotes, a summary and analysis, a discussion of the theme, and the translator's comments.
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