From “Odi Barbare” (Geoffrey Hill Poems)
XXIVWhat is far hence led to the den of making:Moves unlike wildfire; not so simple-happyPloughman hammers ploughshare his durum dentemDigging ...
XXIVWhat is far hence led to the den of making:Moves unlike wildfire; not so simple-happyPloughman hammers ploughshare his durum dentemDigging ...
THE BANQUET-CUPS, of many a hue and shape, Bossed o'er with gems, were beautiful to view;But, for the madness of the ...
Staccato! Staccato!Leggier agitato! In and out does the melody twist--Unique propositionIs this composition. (Alas! for the player who hasn't the wrist!)Now in ...
Vocat aestus in umbram Nemesianus Es. IV. E. P. Ode pour l'?lection de son s?pulchre For three years, out of ...
IRed SlippersRed slippers in a shop-window, and outside in the street, flaws of grey,windy sleet!Behind the polished glass, the slippers ...
CARMEN AMOEBAEUM IHorace: Book III, Ode 9."Donec gratus eram tibi--"HORACEWhen I was your stiddy, my loveliest Lyddy, ...
From sylvan glades and meadows green, From shady haunts and rustic bowers,With fragrance sweet and pious mien, They come — ...
Thou lovely and beloved, thou my love;Whose kiss seems still the first; whose summoning eyes,Even now, as for our love-world's ...
Streaks of green and yellow iridescence, Silver shiftings, Rings veering out of rings, Silver -- gold -- Grey-green opaqueness sliding ...
We heard a new shepherd in the quiet of the congregation listening, hanging on each new word our attention held ...
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot "Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et ...
CHORUS If with voice of words or prayers thy sons may reach thee, We thy latter sons, the men thine ...
We are as clouds that veil the midnight moon; How restlessly they speed, and gleam, and quiver, Streaking the darkness ...
"Vocat aestus in umbram" Nemesianus Es. IV. E. P. Ode pour l'élection de son sépulchre For three years, out of ...
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