Poems about illusions (21 Poems)
Frankincense and Myrrh (Amy Lowell Poem)
My heart is tuned to sorrow, and the strings Vibrate most readily to minor chords, Searching and sad; my mind is stuffed with words Which voice the passion and the ache of things: Illusions beating with their baffled wings Against … Continue reading
Fata Morgana (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
O sweet illusions of song That tempt me everywhere, In the lonely fields, and the throng Of the crowded thoroughfare! I approach and ye vanish away, I grasp you, and ye are gone; But ever by night and by day, … Continue reading
Morituri Salutamus: Poem for the Fiftieth Anniversary (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
Tempora labuntur, tacitisque senescimus annis, Et fugiunt freno non remorante dies. Ovid, Fastorum, Lib. vi. “O C?sar, we who are about to die Salute you!” was the gladiators’ cry In the arena, standing face to face With death and with … Continue reading
Illusions (Dimitris P. Kraniotis Poem)
Noiseless wrinkles on our forehead the frontiers of history, shed oblique glances at Homer’s verses. Illusions full of guilt redeem wounded whispers that became echoes in lighted caves of the fools and the innocent. (Dimitris P. Kraniotis)
The Lesson (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Let us admit it fairly, as a business people should, We have had no end of a lesson: it will do us no end of good. Not on a single issue, or in one direction or twain, But conclusively, comprehensively, … Continue reading
Just Enough (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
What we are to pray for not all the riches on earth seeking from the father our daily bread alone Asking God to give us by his hand to provide daily bread and forgiveness from him we cannot hide Praise … Continue reading
Mr. Mistoffelees (T. S. Eliot Poem)
You ought to know Mr. Mistoffelees! The Original Conjuring Cat– (There can be no doubt about that). Please listen to me and don’t scoff. All his Inventions are off his own bat. There’s no such Cat in the metropolis; He … Continue reading
The light was always you (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
In the beginning there was light, abundant light that truly lit the way, time was never lost in dodging flights of feckless shadows and darkness seldom ever blight the brightness of our days. And when the shadows came at night … Continue reading
To A Fallen Elm (John Clare Poem)
Old Elm that murmured in our chimney top The sweetest anthem autumn ever made And into mellow whispering calms would drop When showers fell on thy many coloured shade And when dark tempests mimic thunder made While darkness came as … Continue reading
THE MAGIC WAND (Bhaskar Roy Barman Poem)
Bhaskar Roy Barman Once in my childhood I watched mesmerized a magician magic everything away from before my eyes and thought he had descended, endowed with supernatural power, from a fairyland where illusions reigned supreme to transport us into the … Continue reading