Two Lovers Two lovers by a moss-grown spring:They leaned soft cheeks together there,Mingled the dark and sunny hair,And heard the wooing thrushes sing.O budding time!O love’s blest prime! Two wedded from the portal stept:The bells made happy carolings,The air was soft as fanning wings,White petals on the pathway slept.O pure-eyed bride!O tender pride! Two faces… Read More True Love
Alice: “How long is forever?”White Rabbit: “Sometimes, just one second.” Lewis Carroll, “Alice in Wonderland” Alice: “Per quanto tempo è per sempre?”Bianconiglio: “A volte, solo un secondo”
“To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” is a poem written by English Cavalier poet Robert Herrick, who was baptized on 24 August 1591. Herrick is best known for his “Hesperides”, a collection of 1200 of lyrical poems published in 1648. In Greek mythology the Hesperides are nymphs of the evening.The book includes “To… Read More “To the Virgins…”
Sara Teasdale was an American lyric poet born in St. Louis, Missouri on 8 August 1884 In 1918, she won the Columbia University Poetry Society Prize for her collection Love Songs.The prize was later officially renamed the Pulitzer Prize. after newspaper publisher Joseph PulitzerWeakened after a difficult bout with pneumonia, she died by suicide in… Read More Wisdom
Tears, Idle Tears Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,Tears from the depth of some divine despairRise in the heart, and gather to the eyes,In looking on the happy autumn-fields,And thinking of the days that are no more. Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail,That brings our friends up from the… Read More Lord Tennyson’s Tears
“Youth’s the Season Made for Joys” is one of the songs (Air XXII) from The Beggar’s Opera (see here) Youth’s the season made for joys,Love is then our duty;She alone who that employs,Well deserves her beauty.Let’s be gay,While we may,Beauty’s a flower despis’d in decay. Let us drink and sport to-day,Ours is not tomorrow.Love with… Read More John Gay & An Air from The Beggar’s Opera (2)
William Butler Yeats one of the greatest poets of the 20th century, was born at Sandymount, Ireland. on 13 June 1865 The Old Men Admiring Themselves in the Water I heard the old, old men say,“Everything alters,And one by one we drop away.”They had hands like claws, and their kneesWere twisted like the old thorn-treesBy… Read More W. B. Yeats
John Dryden (1631 – 12 May 1700) – English poet, literary critic, and playwright., named England’s first poet laureate in 1668. He was also a translator and translated several classic poets, such as Horace, Juvenal, Ovid, Lucretius, and Theocritus, into English In 1685 he wrote a long poem: Imitation of Horace.Here are two stanzas, based… Read More Dryden and Horace
English poet and playwright Robert Browning was born on 7 May 1812.He was one of the foremost Victorian poets, famous for his mastery of dramatic verse, especially dramatic monologues. When he married poet Elizabeth Barrett, in 1846 the couple came to Italy first in Pisa and then in Florence, until Elizabeth’s death,In Italy they had… Read More Robert Browning: “Now”
Here in This Spring(Dylan Thomas) Here in this spring, stars float along the void;Here in this ornamental winterDown pelts the naked weather;This summer buries a spring bird. Symbols are selected from the years’Slow rounding of four seasons’ coasts,In autumn teach three seasons’ firesAnd four birds’ notes. I should tell summer from the trees, the wormsTell,… Read More Here in This Spring
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