Poems about wafer (21 Poems)
Symphony In White (Luis Munoz Marin Poems)
‘WAS midnight when she died; her body layWhite as the wheaten wafer of the priest,What time the heavens were weeping. Let us pray,O friend and servant, for her soul released! Good Chaplain, seeing thus her body fairAnd white as was the … Continue reading
Daybreak (Gwen Harwood Poems)
The snails brush silver. Critic crowpoints his unpleasant beak, and lances.Resumes his treetop, darts belowhis acid-bright, corrosive glances. In the hushed corridors of sleepProfessor Eisenbart plots treason.Caretaker mind prepares to sweepthe dusty offices of reason. Eisenbart mutters, wakes in rageBecause … Continue reading
Our Sunday morning when dawn-priests were applying (John Berryman Poems)
Our Sunday morning when dawn-priests were applyingWafer and wine to the human wound, we laidOurselves to cure ourselves down: I’m afriadOur vestments wanted, but Francis’ friends were cryingIn the nave of pines, sun-satisfied, and flyingSubtle as angels about the barricadeBoughs … Continue reading
Would You Come Back? (Nadia Tueni Poems)
Would you come back if I said the earth was at the tip of my fingerslike a charred branch already cooled?birds often die deep in your blond hairthey adopt the sea as a vicebecause of its sonorous seaweedand runaways coming undonetoo … Continue reading
Hurry Up Please It’s Time (Anne Sexton Poems)
What is death, I ask. What is life, you ask. I give them both my buttocks, my two wheels rolling off toward Nirvana. They are neat as a wallet, opening and closing on their coins, the quarters, the nickels, straight … Continue reading
An Epistle (Emma Lazarus Poems)
I. Master and Sage, greetings and health to thee,From thy most meek disciple! Deign once moreEndure me at thy feet, enlighten me,As when upon my boyish head of yore,Midst the rapt circle gathered round thy kneeThy sacred vials of learning … Continue reading
H. S. Mauberley (Life And Contacts) [Part I] (Ezra Pound Poems)
Vocat aestus in umbram Nemesianus Es. IV. E. P. Ode pour l’?lection de son s?pulchre For three years, out of key with his time, He strove to resuscitate the dead art Of poetry; to maintain “the sublime” In the old … Continue reading
Fish And Shadow (Ezra Pound Poems)
The salmon-trout drifts in the stream,The soul of the salmon-trout floats over the streamLike a little wafer of light. The salmon moves in the sun-shot, bright shallow sea. . . . As light as the shadow of the fishthat falls … Continue reading
Mrs Jaypher (Edward Lear Poems)
“Mrs Jaypher found a waferWhich she stuck upon a note;This she took and gave the cook.Then she went and bought a boat,Which she paddled down the stream,Shouting, ‘Ice produces cream,Beer when churned produces butter!Henceforth all the words I utterDistant ages … Continue reading
Sonnet LV: “I strive to live my life in whitest truth” (George Henry Boker Poems)
LV I strive to live my life in whitest truth, Even in the face of this deceitful world; And if in errors I am caught and whirled From the fair courses of my candid youth, I view my trespasses with … Continue reading