John Freeman Poems on Body Archives - Famous Inspirational Poems, Poetry, Quotes

When man first walked upright and soberly Reflecting as he paced to and fro,And no more swinging from wide tree to ...

Hear me, O beeches! YouThat have with ageless anguish slowly risenFrom earth's still secret prisonInto the ampler prison of aery ...

At evening when the aspens rustled softAnd the last blackbird by the hedge-nest laughed,And through the leaves the moon's unmeaning ...

When this burning fleshBurns down in Time's slow fire to a glowing ash;When these lips have utteredThe last word, and ...

When through our bodies our two spirits burnEscaping, and no more our true eyes turnOutwards, and no more hands to ...

And now, while the dark vast earth shakes and rocksIn this wild dream-like snare of mortal shocks,How look (I muse) ...

When I had dreamed and dreamed what woman's beauty was,And how that beauty seen from unseen surely flowed,I turned and ...

I could not love if my thought loved not too,Nor could my body touch the body of you,Unless first in ...

I know how fire burns,How from the wrangling fumesRose and amber blooms, And slowly dies.Nothing's so swift as fire,There's nothing alive ...

Surely I must have ailed On that dark night,Or my childish courage failed Because there was no light;Or terror must have come With ...

Now come,And I that moment will forget you.Sit hereAnd in your eyes I shall not see you.Speak, speakThat I no ...

What is the soul? Is it the windAmong the branches of the mind?Is it the sea against Time's shoreBreaking and ...

Yet when I am alone my eyes say, Come.My hands cannot be still.In that first moment all my senses ache,Cells, ...

John Freeman Poems on Body (13 Poems)