Poems about conjoined (21 Poems)
Of The Nature Of Things: Book II – Part 04 – Absence Of Secondary Qualities (Lucretius Poems)
Now come, this wisdom by my sweet toil soughtLook thou perceive, lest haply thou shouldst guessThat the white objects shining to thine eyesAre gendered of white atoms, or the blackOf a black seed; or yet believe that aughtThat’s steeped in … Continue reading
Book II – Part 04 – Absence Of Secondary Qualities (Lucretius Poems)
Now come, this wisdom by my sweet toil soughtLook thou perceive, lest haply thou shouldst guessThat the white objects shining to thine eyesAre gendered of white atoms, or the blackOf a black seed; or yet believe that aughtThat’s steeped in … Continue reading
Of The Nature Of Things: Book IV – Part 04 – Some Vital Functions (Lucretius Poems)
In these affairsWe crave that thou wilt passionately fleeThe one offence, and anxiously wilt shunThe error of presuming the clear lightsOf eyes created were that we might see;Or thighs and knees, aprop upon the feet,Thuswise can bended be, that we … Continue reading
Book IV – Part 04 – Some Vital Functions (Lucretius Poems)
In these affairsWe crave that thou wilt passionately fleeThe one offence, and anxiously wilt shunThe error of presuming the clear lightsOf eyes created were that we might see;Or thighs and knees, aprop upon the feet,Thuswise can bended be, that we … Continue reading
Paradiso: Canto I (Dante Alighieri Poems)
The glory of Him who moveth everythingDoth penetrate the universe, and shineIn one part more and in another less. Within that heaven which most his light receivesWas I, and things beheld which to repeatNor knows, nor can, who from above … Continue reading
The God Of Abraham. (John Dunmore Lang Poems)
Written on Board the Medway, in the South Seas, in Very StormyWeather. “WHERE is the God whom I adore?”Abram of old in Haran cried,And a sage skilled in Sabian* lore,To his fond question thus replied:“Go, seek him in yon starry … Continue reading
To The Venus Of Melos (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
O goddess of that Grecian isle Whose shores the blue Aegean laves,Whose cliffs repeat with answering smile Their features in its sun-kissed waves! An exile from thy native place, We view thee in a northern clime;Yet mark on thy majestic face A glory still … Continue reading
His Shield (Marianne Moore Poems)
The pin-swin or spine-swine(the edgehog miscalled hedgehog) with all his edges out, echidna and echinoderm in distressed-pin-cushion thorn-fur coats, the spiny pig or porcupine,the rhino with horned snout- everything is battle-dressed. Pig-fur won’t do, I’ll wrapmyself in salamander-skin like Presbyter John. A lizard … Continue reading
Sonnet XXXIV (Pablo Neruda Poems)
You are the daughter of the sea, oregano’s first cousin.Swimmer, your body is pure as the water;cook, your blood is quick as the soil.Everything you do is full of flowers, rich with the earth. Your eyes go out toward the … Continue reading
A Mystery (Philip James Bailey Poems)
Friend! many a year hath passedSince last I clasped thine hand–It may be we shall meet no moreTill in the Heavenly land;Still grief can ne’er erase, nor joyEclipse, the bliss hath been;And us one ceaseless, burning thoughtStill oscillates between. And … Continue reading