Love Incarnate (Frank Bidart Poem)
(Dante, Vita Nuova) To all those driven berserk or humanized by love this is offered, for I need help deciphering ...
(Dante, Vita Nuova) To all those driven berserk or humanized by love this is offered, for I need help deciphering ...
I'm buried now; I've done with life; I've done with hate, revenge and strife; I've done with joy, and hope ...
Fair was the evening and brightly the sun Was shining on desert and grove, Sweet were the breezes and balmy ...
When my love was away, Full three days were not sped, I caught my fancy astray Thinking if she were ...
SHE knelt upon her brother's grave, My little girl of six years old-- He used to be so good and ...
I've quenched my lamp, I struck it in that start Which every limb convulsed, I heard it fall The crash ...
Mild the mist upon the hill Telling not of storms tomorrow; No, the day has wept its fill, Spent its ...
"O day! he cannot die When thou so fair art shining! O Sun, in such a glorious sky, So tranquilly ...
Who built Thebes of the seven gates? In the books you will find the names of kings. Did the kings ...
The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and ...
Oh! could I hope the wise and pure in heart Might hear my song without a frown, nor deem My ...
(From a sonnet-sequence) Somewhile before the dawn I rose, and stept Softly along the dim way to your room, And ...
From the candles and dumb shadows, And the house where love had died, I stole to the vast moonlight And ...
O God, in the dream the terrible horse began To paw at the air, and make for me with his ...
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
'Twas after dread Pultowa's day, When fortune left the royal Swede - Around a slaughtered army lay, No more to ...
And thou art dead, as young and fair As aught of mortal birth; And form so soft, and charms so ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
I. Oh! Weep for those that wept by Babel's stream, Whose shrines are desolate, whose land a dream, Weep for ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
We sat down and wept by the waters Of Babel, and thought of the day When our foe, in the ...
There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away When the glow of early thought declines ...
And thou art dead, as young and fair As aught of mortal birth; And form so soft and charm so ...
My sister! my sweet sister! if a name Dearer and purer were, it should be thine; Mountains and seas divide ...
I had a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars Did wander ...
To gaze at a river made of time and water And remember Time is another river. To know we stray ...
O SHADOWY Beauty mine, when thou shalt sleep In the deep heart of a black marble tomb; When thou for ...
I see you drinking at a fountain with tiny blue hands, no, your hands are not tiny they are small, ...
You read-what is it, then that you are reading? What music moves so silently in your mind? Your bright hand ...
Per me si va ne la citt? dolente, per me si va ne l'etterno dolore, per me si va tra ...
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