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    Starting this thread to present a great poem everyday for any readers that care to follow .
    Today I am presenting one by a great poet I recently discovered that to me was a poetic genius.
    I will present works by many other poets so keep reading and checking if you care at all to read poetry.
    I will not in this thread present any of my compositions as this thread is to be reserved for presenting the works of great poets only.-Tyr

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    My Lady April

    DEW on her robe and on her tangled hair;
    Twin dewdrops for her eyes; behold her pass,
    With dainty step brushing the young, green grass,
    The while she trills some high, fantastic air,
    Full of all feathered sweetness: she is fair,
    And all her flower-like beauty, as a glass,
    Mirrors out hope and love: and still, alas!
    Traces of tears her languid lashes wear.

    Say, doth she weep for very wantonness?
    Or is it that she dimly doth foresee
    Across her youth the joys grow less and less
    The burden of the days that are to be:
    Autumn and withered leaves and vanity,
    And winter bringing end in barrenness.

    Authored by--- Ernest Dowson
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tyr-Ziu Saxnot View Post

    My Lady April
    Thank you for your poems! You are doing a great favor for me and I am grateful to you. I give them to read to my grand children for their better understanding and feeling English. I am sure that it is absolutely necessary not only learning words and Grammar, but also feel the language itself and it's tune.
    Indifferent alike to praise or blame
    Give heed, O Muse, but to the voice Divine
    Fearing not injury, nor seeking fame,
    Nor casting pearls to swine.
    (A.Pushkin)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Balu View Post
    Thank you for your poems! You are doing a great favor for me and I am grateful to you. I give them to read to my grand children for their better understanding and feeling English. I am sure that it is absolutely necessary not only learning words and Grammar, but also feel the language itself and it's tune.
    Happy that this may indeed help and be enjoyed by you and your family.
    I hope they may enjoy it greatly and be blessed by God with a deeper understanding of life and the world. -Tyr
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tyr-Ziu Saxnot View Post
    Happy that this may indeed help and be enjoyed by you and your family.
    I hope they may enjoy it greatly and be blessed by God with a deeper understanding of life and the world. -Tyr
    I've already said that I am here to refresh my English as I am planning to take my grand son with me to show him a couple of countries from those I worked before for rather long time.
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    Indifferent alike to praise or blame
    Give heed, O Muse, but to the voice Divine
    Fearing not injury, nor seeking fame,
    Nor casting pearls to swine.
    (A.Pushkin)

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    "Go, lovely Rose"

    BY EDMUND WALLER

    Go, lovely Rose—
    Tell her that wastes her time and me,
    That now she knows,
    When I resemble her to thee,
    How sweet and fair she seems to be.

    Tell her that’s young,
    And shuns to have her graces spied,
    That hadst thou sprung
    In deserts where no men abide,
    Thou must have uncommended died.

    Small is the worth
    Of beauty from the light retired:
    Bid her come forth,
    Suffer herself to be desired,
    And not blush so to be admired.

    Then die—that she
    The common fate of all things rare
    May read in thee;
    How small a part of time they share
    That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
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    BY GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE
    TRANSLATED BY DONALD REVELL


    Mirabeau Bridge



    Under Mirabeau Bridge the river slips away
    And lovers
    Must I be reminded
    Joy came always after pain


    The night is a clock chiming
    The days go by not I


    We're face to face and hand in hand
    While under the bridges
    Of embrace expire
    Eternal tired tidal eyes


    The night is a clock chiming
    The days go by not I


    Love elapses like the river
    Love goes by
    Poor life is indolent
    And expectation always violent


    The night is a clock chiming
    The days go by not I


    The days and equally the weeks elapse
    The past remains the past
    Love remains lost
    Under Mirabeau Bridge the river slips away


    The night is a clock chiming
    The days go by not I
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    This one is very deep, like the rivers waters, the past flow and past lost love.
    I can quite easily relate to this great poem by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE...... --Tyr
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    Sergeant-Major Money
    BY ROBERT GRAVES

    It wasn't our battalion, but we lay alongside it,
    So the story is as true as the telling is frank.
    They hadn't one Line-officer left, after Arras,
    Except a batty major and the Colonel, who drank.

    'B' Company Commander was fresh from the Depot,
    An expert on gas drill, otherwise a dud;
    So Sergeant-Major Money carried on, as instructed,
    And that's where the swaddies began to sweat blood.

    His Old Army humour was so well-spiced and hearty
    That one poor sod shot himself, and one lost his wits;
    But discipline's maintained, and back in rest-billets
    The Colonel congratulates 'B' Company on their kits.

    The subalterns went easy, as was only natural
    With a terror like Money driving the machine,
    Till finally two Welshmen, butties from the Rhondda,
    Bayoneted their bugbear in a field-canteen.

    Well, we couldn't blame the officers, they relied on Money;
    We couldn't blame the pitboys, their courage was grand;
    Or, least of all, blame Money, an old stiff surviving
    In a New (bloody) Army he couldn't understand.
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    Selected Poems and Prose

    by- Ernest Dowson



    Amantium Irae

    WHEN this, our rose, is faded,
    And these, our days, are done,
    In lands profoundly shaded
    From tempest and from sun:
    Ah, once more come together,
    Shall we forgive the past,
    And safe from worldly weather
    Possess our souls at last?

    Or in our place of shadows
    Shall still we stretch an hand
    To green, remembered meadows,
    Of that old pleasant land?
    And vainly there foregathered,
    Shall we regret the sun?
    The rose of love ungathered?
    The bay, we have not won?

    Ah, child! the world’s dark marges
    May lead to Nevermore,
    The stately funeral barges
    Sail for an unknown shore,
    And love we vow tomorrow,
    And pride we serve today:
    What if they both should borrow
    Sad hues of yesterday?

    Our pride! Ah, should we miss it,
    Or will it serve at last?
    Our anger, if we kiss it,
    Is like a sorrow past.
    While roses deck the garden,
    While yet the sun is high,
    Doff sorry pride for pardon,
    Or ever love go by.
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    TO THE DIVINE SPIRIT

    by: John Stuart Blackie (1809-1895)




    SPIRIT that shaped the formless chaos,
    Breath that stirred the sluggish deep,
    When the primal crude creation
    Started from its dateless sleep;
    Spirit that heaved the granite mountains
    From the central fiery wells,
    Breath that drew the rolling rivers
    From the welkin's dewy cells,
    Spirit of motion,
    Earth and ocean
    Moulding into various life,
    Within, without us,
    And round about us
    Weaving all in friendly strife:
    Come, O come, thou heavenly guest,
    Shape a new world within my breast!

    Spirit that taught the holy fathers
    Wandering through the desert drear,
    To know and feel, through myriad marchings,
    One eternal presence near.
    Breath that touched the Hebrew prophets'
    Lips with words of wingèd fire,
    Through the dubious gloom of ages,
    Kindling hope and high desire;
    Spirit revealing
    To pure feeling,
    In the inward parts of man,
    Fitful-shining
    Dim-divining
    Vast foreshadowings of Thy plan;
    Come, O come, thou prophet guest,
    Watch and wait within my breast!

    Spirit that o'er Thine own Messiah
    Hovered like a brooding dove,
    When Earth's haughty lords he conquered,
    By the peaceful march of love.
    Breath that hushed loud-vaunting Caesars,
    And in triumph yoked to Thee
    Iron Rome, and savage Scythia,
    Bonded brethren and the free.
    Spirit of union,
    And communion
    Of devoted heart with heart,
    Pure and holy,
    Sure and slowly
    Working out thy boastless part:
    Come, thou calmly-conquering guest,
    Rule and reign within my breast!

    Spirit that, when free-thoughted Europe
    With the triple-crowned despot strove,
    In the gusty Saxon's spirit
    Thy soul-stirring music wove;
    Then when pride's piled architecture
    At a poor monk's truthful word
    Crashing fell, and thrones were shaken
    At the whisper of the Lord.
    Spirit deep-lurking,
    Secret-working
    Weaver of strange circumstance,
    All whose doing
    Is rise or ruin
    Named by shallow mortals chance;
    Come, let fruitful deeds attest
    Thy plastic virtue, in my breast!

    Spirit, that sway'st the will of mortals,
    Every wish, and every hope,
    Shaping to Thy forethought purpose
    All their striving, all their scope.
    Central tide that heavest onward
    Wave and wavelet, surge and spray,
    Making wrath of man to praise Thee,
    And his pride to pave Thy way:
    Spirit that workest,
    Where thou lurkest,
    Death from life, and day from night,
    Peace from warring,
    And from jarring,
    Songs of triumph and delight;
    Come, O come, Thou heavenly guest,
    Work all Thy will within my breast!



    "To the Divine Spirit" is reprinted from The Selected Poems of John Stuart Blackie.
    Ed. Archibald Stodart Walker. London: John Macqueen, 1896
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    Beata Solitudo

    WHAT land of Silence,
    Where pale stars shine
    On apple-blossoms
    And dew-drenched vine,
    Is yours and mine?

    The silent valley
    That we will find,
    Where all the voices
    Of humankind
    Are left behind.

    There all forgetting,
    Forgotten quite,
    We will repose us,
    With our delight
    Hid out of sight.

    The world forsaken,
    And out of mind
    Honour and labour,
    We shall not find
    The stars unkind.

    And men shall travail,
    And laugh and weep;
    But we have vistas
    Of Gods asleep,
    With dreams as deep.

    A land of Silence,
    Where pale stars shine
    On apple-blossoms
    And dew-drenched vine,
    Be yours and mine!

    by Ernest Dowson
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    BEAUTIFUL WORLD

    by: John Stuart Blackie (1809-1895)


    Though bigots condemn thee,
    My tongue finds no words
    For the graces that gem thee!
    Beaming with sunny light,
    Bountiful ever,
    Streaming with gay delight,
    Full as a river!
    Bright world! brave world!
    Let cavillers blame thee!
    I bless thee, and bend
    To the God who did frame thee!

    Beautiful world!
    Bursting around me,
    Manifold, million-hued
    Wonders confound me!
    From earth, sea, and starry sky,
    Meadow and mountain,
    Eagerly gushes
    Life's magical fountain.
    Bright world! brave world!
    Though witlings may blame thee,
    Wonderful excellence
    Only could frame thee!

    The bird in the greenwood
    His sweet hymn is trolling,
    The fish in blue ocean
    Is spouting and rolling!
    Light things on airy wing
    Wild dances weaving,
    Clods with new life in spring
    Swelling and heaving!
    Thou quick-teeming world,
    Though scoffers may blame thee,
    I wonder, and worship
    The God who could frame thee!
    Beautiful world!

    What poesy measures
    Thy strong-flooding passions,
    Thy light-trooping pleasures?
    Mustering, marshalling,
    Striving and straining,
    Conquering, triumphing,
    Ruling and reigning!
    Thou bright-armied world!
    So strong, who can tame thee?
    Wonderful power of God
    Only could frame thee!

    Beautiful world!
    While godlike I deem thee,
    No cold wit shall move me
    With bile to blaspheme thee!
    I have lived in thy light,
    And, when Fate ends my story,
    May I leave on death's cloud
    The bright trail of life's glory!
    Wondrous old world!
    No ages shall shame thee!
    Ever bright with new light
    From the God who did frame thee!
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    A Seed
    by William Allingham


    See how a Seed, which Autumn flung down,
    And through the Winter neglected lay,
    Uncoils two little green leaves and two brown,
    With tiny root taking hold on the clay
    As, lifting and strengthening day by day,
    It pushes red branchless, sprouts new leaves,
    And cell after cell the Power in it weaves
    Out of the storehouse of soil and clime,
    To fashion a Tree in due course of time;
    Tree with rough bark and boughs' expansion,
    Where the Crow can build his mansion,
    Or a Man, in some new May,
    Lie under whispering leaves and say,
    "Are the ills of one's life so very bad
    When a Green Tree makes me deliciously glad?"
    As I do now. But where shall I be
    When this little Seed is a tall green Tree?
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    William Allingham, 1824-1889
    Nationality: English
    Date of Birth: 19 March 1824
    Place of Birth: Ballyshannon, County
    Date of Death: 18 November 1889
    Place of Death: Eldon House, Lyndhurst Road,


    Identity:
    William Allingham was an Irish poet and civil servant. His father was a shipping merchant. The eldest of five children, his mother died when he was aged nine. Allingham married the watercolourist Helen Paterson in 1874.

    Life:
    He began his career aged fourteen, working in a bank but quit in 1846 to join the Customs Office. Visiting London in 1847, he became acquainted with the poet Leigh Hunt and in 1849 with Coventry Patmore. In 1850 his first book of poems was dedicated to Leigh Hunt. From 1850-53 he became friends with Thomas Carlyle, Alfred Tennyson, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the other members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. His chief correspondents throughout his life were Rossetti and Henry Sutton, a young poet journalist in Nottingham.

    In 1855 Allingham's Day and Night Songs was published with nine illustrations by Rossetti, John Everett Millais and Arthur Hughes, cut by the Dalziel brothers. His poetry, which was influenced by the tradition of Border Ballads, was close to that of Rossetti and William Morris. In 1865 his Fifty Modern Poems was published, and in 1877 an anthology of his work, Songs, Ballads and Stories.

    In 1870, through Carlyle's influence, Allingham became sub-editor of Fraser's Magazine, and then in 1874 he succeeded the historian J. A. Froude as editor, holding this post for five years. As well as JW, he was the friend of such prominent artists and writers as Edward Burne-Jones, Charles Dickens and the Brownings.

    Bibliography:
    Hill, George Birkbeck (ed.), Letters of Dante Gabriel Rossetti to William Allingham 1854-1870, London, 1897; Allingham, William, William Allingham: a Diary, H. Allingham & Radford, D., (eds.) London 1907; H. Allingham and E. Baumer Williams (eds.), Letters to William Allingham, London, 1911
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    Wise Men In Their Bad Hours
    by Robinson Jeffers



    Wise men in their bad hours have envied
    The little people making merry like grasshoppers
    In spots of sunlight, hardly thinking
    Backward but never forward, and if they somehow
    Take hold upon the future they do it
    Half asleep, with the tools of generation
    Foolishly reduplicating
    Folly in thirty-year periods; the eat and laugh too,
    Groan against labors, wars and partings,
    Dance, talk, dress and undress; wise men have pretended
    The summer insects enviable;
    One must indulge the wise in moments of mockery.
    Strength and desire possess the future,
    The breed of the grasshopper shrills, "What does the future
    Matter, we shall be dead?" Ah, grasshoppers,
    Death's a fierce meadowlark: but to die having made
    Something more equal to the centuries
    Than muscle and bone, is mostly to shed weakness.
    The mountains are dead stone, the people
    Admire or hate their stature, their insolent quietness,
    The mountains are not softened nor troubled
    And a few dead men's thoughts have the same temper.

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    "The mountains are dead stone, the people
    Admire or hate their stature, their insolent quietness,
    The mountains are not softened nor troubled
    And a few dead men's thoughts have the same temper."

    ^^^ This closing stanza alone makes this poem a great one, yet the rest of the poem is of a fantastically high caliber as well IMHO.-Tyr
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    Beauty Clear and Fair
    by John Fletcher

    BEAUTY clear and fair,
    Where the air
    Rather like a perfume dwells;
    Where the violet and the rose
    Their blue veins and blush disclose,
    And come to honour nothing else:

    Where to live near
    And planted there
    Is to live, and still live new;
    Where to gain a favour is
    More than light, perpetual bliss--
    Make me live by serving you!

    Dear, again back recall
    To this light,
    A stranger to himself and all!
    Both the wonder and the story
    Shall be yours, and eke the glory;
    I am your servant, and your thrall.
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    A very interesting poem, written by a clergyman.

    This stanza below especially got my attention...-Tyr


    "Where to live near
    And planted there
    Is to live, and still live new;
    Where to gain a favour is
    More than light, perpetual bliss--
    Make me live by serving you!"

    Begs the question, is he speaking of a real woman or his strict devotion to his church/faith?
    18 U.S. Code § 2381-Treason Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.

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    London Snow (1890)
    by Robert Bridges

    When men were all asleep the snow came flying,
    In large white flakes falling on the city brown,
    Stealthily and perpetually settling and loosely lying,
    Hushing the latest traffic of the drowsy town;
    Deadening, muffling, stifling its murmurs failing;
    Lazily and incessantly floating down and down:
    Silently sifting and veiling road, roof and railing;
    Hiding difference, making unevenness even,
    Into angles and crevices softly drifting and sailing.
    All night it fell, and when full inches seven
    It lay in the depth of its uncompacted lightness,
    The clouds blew off from a high and frosty heaven;
    And all woke earlier for the unaccustomed brightness
    Of the winter dawning, the strange unheavenly glare:
    The eye marvelled – marvelled at the dazzling whiteness;
    The ear hearkened to the stillness of the solemn air;
    No sound of wheel rumbling nor of foot falling,
    And the busy morning cries came thin and spare.
    Then boys I heard, as they went to school, calling,
    They gathered up the crystal manna to freeze
    Their tongues with tasting, their hands with snowballing;
    Or rioted in a drift, plunging up to the knees;
    Or peering up from under the white-mossed wonder,
    ‘O look at the trees!’ they cried, ‘O look at the trees!’
    With lessened load a few carts creak and blunder,
    Following along the white deserted way,
    A country company long dispersed asunder:
    When now already the sun, in pale display
    Standing by Paul’s high dome, spread forth below
    His sparkling beams, and awoke the stir of the day.
    For now doors open, and war is waged with the snow;
    And trains of sombre men, past tale of number,
    Tread long brown paths, as toward their toil they go:
    But even for them awhile no cares encumber
    Their minds diverted; the daily word is unspoken,
    The daily thoughts of labour and sorrow slumber
    At the sight of the beauty that greets them, for the charm they have broken.
    Last edited by Tyr-Ziu Saxnot; 06-15-2015 at 09:22 AM.
    18 U.S. Code § 2381-Treason Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.

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