devoid (31 Poems)
Sojourns in the Parallel World (Denise Levertov Poem)
We live our lives of human passions, cruelties, dreams, concepts, crimes and the exercise of virtue in and beside a world devoid of our preoccupations, free from apprehension–though affected, certainly, by our actions. A world parallel to our own though … Continue reading
Borderland (Henry Lawson Poem)
I am back from up the country — very sorry that I went – Seeking for the Southern poets’ land whereon to pitch my tent; I have lost a lot of idols, which were broken on the track – Burnt … Continue reading
Up The Country (Henry Lawson Poem)
I am back from up the country — very sorry that I went – Seeking for the Southern poets’ land whereon to pitch my tent; I have lost a lot of idols, which were broken on the track, Burnt a … Continue reading
The Day is Done (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight. I see the lights of the village Gleam through the rain and the mist, And … Continue reading
Pantoum Of The Great Depression (Donald Justice Poem)
Our lives avoided tragedy Simply by going on and on, Without end and with little apparent meaning. Oh, there were storms and small catastrophes. Simply by going on and on We managed. No need for the heroic. Oh, there were … Continue reading
THE MUSAGETES. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
IN the deepest nights of Winter To the Muses kind oft cried I: “Not a ray of morn is gleaming, Not a sign of daylight breaking; Bring, then, at the fitting moment, Bring the lamp’s soft glimm’ring lustre, ‘Stead of … Continue reading
THE GOD AND THE BAYADERE. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
AN INDIAN LEGEND. [This very fine Ballad was also first given in the Horen.] (MAHADEVA is one of the numerous names of Seeva, the destroyer,– the great god of the Brahmins.) MAHADEVA,* Lord of earth For the sixth time comes … Continue reading
THE VISIT. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
FAIN had I to-day surprised my mistress, But soon found I that her door was fasten’d. Yet I had the key safe in my pocket, And the darling door I open’d softly! In the parlour found I not the maiden, … Continue reading
THREATENING SIGNS. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
IF Venus in the evening sky Is seen in radiant majesty, If rod-like comets, red as blood, Are ‘mongst the constellations view’d, Out springs the Ignoramus, yelling: “The star’s exactly o’er my dwelling! What woeful prospect, ah, for me! Then … Continue reading
THOUGHTS ON JESUS CHRIST’S DESCENT INTO HELL. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
THOUGHTS ON JESUS CHRIST’S DESCENT INTO HELL. [THE remarkable Poem of which this is a literal but faint representation, was written when Goethe was only sixteen years old. It derives additional interest from the fact of its being the very … Continue reading