Preamble (A Rough Draft For An Ars Poetica) (Jean Cocteau Poem)
...Preamble A rough draft for an ars poetica . . . . . . . Let's get our dreams unstuck ...
...Preamble A rough draft for an ars poetica . . . . . . . Let's get our dreams unstuck ...
(Genesis, v.24) Oh! for a closer walk with God, A calm and heavenly frame; A light to shine upon the ...
A part, immutable, unseen, Being, before itself had been, Became. Like dew a triple queen Shone as the void uncovered: ...
A vision of flushed faces, shining limbs, The madness of the music that entrances All life ...
A part, immutable, unseen, Being, before itself had been, Became. Like dew a triple queen Shone as the void uncovered: ...
A vision of flushed faces, shining limbs, The madness of the music that entrances All life ...
Late, late yestreen I saw the new Moon, With the old Moon in her arms ; And I fear, I ...
I held the switch in trembling fingers, asked why existence felt so small, so purposeless, like a minnow wriggling feebly ...
Why should such gloomy silence reign; And why is all the house so drear, When neither danger, sickness, pain, Nor ...
'O cast away your sorrow; -- A while, at least, be gay! If grief must come tomorrow, At least, be ...
While on my lonely couch I lie, I seldom feel myself alone, For fancy fills my dreaming eye With scenes ...
How fares it, friend, since I by Fate annoy'd Left the old home in need of livelier play For body ...
SHE will not sleep, for fear of dreams, But, rising, quits her restless bed, And walks where some beclouded beams ...
I. THE GARDEN. ABOVE the city hung the moon, Right o'er a plot of ground Where flowers and orchard-trees were ...
I've quenched my lamp, I struck it in that start Which every limb convulsed, I heard it fall The crash ...
The room is quiet, thoughts alone People its mute tranquillity; The yoke put on, the long task done, I am, ...
NO coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere: I see Heaven's glories shine, And faith shines ...
No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere: I see Heaven's glories shine, And faith shines ...
On a sunny brae, alone I lay One summer afternoon; It was the marriage-time of May With her young lover, ...
How clear she shines! How quietly I lie beneath her guardian light; While heaven and earth are whispering me, " ...
Here the flame that was ash, shrine that was void, lost in the haunted wood, I have tended and loved, ...
How should I know? The enormous wheels of will Drove me cold-eyed on tired and sleepless feet. Night was void ...
Tenderly, day that I have loved, I close your eyes, And smooth your quiet brow, and fold your thin dead ...
Proem. 1.1 Although great Queen, thou now in silence lie, 1.2 Yet thy loud Herald Fame, doth to the sky ...
I had eight birds hatched in one nest, Four cocks there were, and hens the rest. I nursed them up ...
1 Sometime now past in the Autumnal Tide, 2 When Ph{oe}bus wanted but one hour to bed, 3 The trees ...
To exalt, enthrone, establish and defend, To welcome home mankind's mysterious friend Wine, true begetter of all arts that be; ...
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
I had a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars Did wander ...
I recall a boil, whereupon as I had to sit, just where, and when I had to, for deadlines. O ...
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