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 ...
Poems about irrational (21 Poems)
Orlando Furioso Canto 21 (Ludovico Ariosto Poems)
ARGUMENTZerbino for Gabrina, who a heartOf asp appears to bear, contends. O'erthrown,The Fleming falls upon the other part,Through cause of ...
Poetry And Reality (Jane Taylor Poems)
THE worldly minded, cast in common mould,With all his might pursuing fame or gold,And towards that goal too vehemently hurledTo ...
The Cock and The Fox (Robert Henryson Poems)
Thogh brutal beestes be irrational,That is to say, wantand, discretioun,Yit ilk ane in their kindes naturalHas many divers inclinatioun:The bair ...
Elegy On The Death Of Henry Lord Hastings (John Denham Poems)
Reader, preserve thy peace: those busy eyesWill weep at their own sad discoveries,When every line they add improves thy loss,Till, ...
Intimations Of Immortality In An Early Age (Jan Struther Poems)
ON the first of spring, walking along the Embankment,Light-footed, light-headed, eager in mind and heart,I found my spirit keyed to ...
It Must Give Pleasure (Wallace Stevens Poems)
ITo sing jubilas at exact, accustomed times,To be crested and wear the mane of a multitudeAnd so, as part, to ...
Heartwounds (Gloria Wade-Gayles Poems)
Some men have not learned that heartwoundsas deep as a woman's need for lovedo not respond to phoney curativesof roses, ...
Courage Defined (Joanna Baillie Poems)
The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational; But he whose noble soul its ...
The Fall Of Nineveh. Book The Third (Edwin Atherstone Poems)
The sun hath set; the outworn armies sleep: But, in Arbaces' tent, by summons called For counsel secret on things ...
The Sage Enamoured And The Honest Lady (George Meredith Poems)
IOne fairest of the ripe unwedded leftHer shadow on the Sage's path; he found,By common signs, that she had done ...
Sonnet II (Fernando Pessoa Poems)
If that apparent part of life's delightOur tingled flesh-sense circumscribes were seenBy aught save reflex and co-carnal sight,Joy, flesh and ...
Today (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
The manic fires flared again today, very much the same irrational urges blazing from the open grate, urgent fervours that ...
Blame Katrina, or Larry. (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
You may have heard a dumb-ass claim that Katrina, a hurricane, is to blame for current stress upon our fiscal ...
The Gyres (William Butler Yeats Poems)
The gyres! the gyres! Old Rocky Face, look forth; Things thought too long can be no longer thought, For beauty ...
Me Imperturbe. (Walt Whitman Poems)
ME imperturbe, standing at ease in Nature, Master of all, or mistress of all-aplomb in the midst of irrational things, ...
As I Sat Alone by Blue Ontario’s Shores. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 AS I sat alone, by blue Ontario's shore, As I mused of these mighty days, and of peace return'd, ...
The Ballad Of The Children Of The Czar (Delmore Schwartz Poems)
1 The children of the Czar Played with a bouncing ball In the May morning, in the Czar's garden, Tossing ...
The Artist’s Duty (Kenneth Patchen Poems)
So it is the duty of the artist to discourage all traces of shame To extend all boundaries To fog ...
Paradise Lost: Book 09 (John Milton Poems)
No more of talk where God or Angel guest With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd, To sit indulgent, ...
Paradise Lost: Book 10 (John Milton Poems)
Mean while the heinous and despiteful act Of Satan, done in Paradise; and how He, in the serpent, had perverted ...