Failure Poems (658 Poems)
The Heroic Enthusiasts: Part 1: Third Dialogue (Giordano Bruno Poems)
TANSILLO. There are several varieties of enthusiasts, which may all be reduced totwo kinds. While some only display blindness, stupidity, and irrationalimpetuosity, which tend towards savage madness, others by divineabstraction become in reality superior to ordinary men. And these againare … Continue reading
Paradise Regain’d : Book I. (John Milton Poems)
I, who erewhile the happy Garden sungBy one man’s disobedience lost, now singRecovered Paradise to all mankind,By one man’s firm obedience fully triedThrough all temptation, and the Tempter foiledIn all his wiles, defeated and repulsed,And Eden raised in the waste … Continue reading
Nymphidia, The Court Of Fairy (Michael Drayton Poems)
Old Chaucer doth of Thopas tell,Mad Rabelais of Pantagruel,A latter third of Dowsabell,With such poor trifles playing;Others the like have labored atSome of this thing, and some of that,And many of they know not what,But that they must be saying. … Continue reading
History of the Twentieth Century (A Roadshow) (Joseph Brodsky Poems)
The Sun’s in its orbit, yet I feel morbid. Act 1 Prologue Ladies and gentlemen and the day!All ye made of sweet human clay!Let me tell you: you are o’kay. Our show is to start without much delay.So let me inform … Continue reading
The Dreams That Came True (Jean Ingelow Poems)
I saw in a vision once, our mother-sphere The world, her fixed foredooméd oval tracing,Rolling and rolling on and resting never, While like a phantom fell, behind her pacingThe unfurled flag of night, her shadow drear Fled as she fled and hung to … Continue reading
The Golden Legend: V. A Covered Bridge At Lucerne (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
_Prince Henry_. God’s blessing on the architects who buildThe bridges o’er swift rivers and abyssesBefore impassable to human feet,No less than on the builders of cathedrals,Whose massive walls are bridges thrown acrossThe dark and terrible abyss of Death.Well has the … Continue reading
The Heroic Enthusiasts: Part 2: Second Dialogue (Giordano Bruno Poems)
MARICONDO. Here you see a flaming yoke enveloped in knots round which iswritten: Levius aura; which means that Divine love does not weigh down,nor carry his servant captive and enslaved to the lowest depths, butraises him, supports him and magnifies … Continue reading
Festus – XVI (Philip James Bailey Poems)
Charged by the spirit e’er upwards ripening, manAnd evil, his mightier minister, invadePeaceful, that sacred sphere, the queen of heaven,Whose passive utterances of light revealThe birth of things, their subjectness to soul,Spiritual and human; sin’s source, and the meansWhereby perfection … Continue reading
The Heroic Enthusiasts: Part 2: Third Dialogue (Giordano Bruno Poems)
_Interlocutors_: LIBERIO. LAODONIO. LIB. Reclining in the shade of a cypress-tree, the enthusiast findinghis mind free from other thoughts, it happened that the heart and theeyes spoke together as if they were animals and substances of differentintellects and senses, and … Continue reading
Mogg Megone – Part II. (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
‘Tis morning over Norridgewock, —On tree and wigwam, wave and rock.Bathed in the autumnal sunshine, stirredAt intervals by breeze and bird,And wearing all the hues which glowIn heaven’s own pure and perfect bow,That glorious picture of the air,Which summer’s light-robed … Continue reading