The Magic Wand

As an April garden

Breathes the scent of rain-

Rain that calls her treasures

Back to life again-

So my spirit quickens to the opening strain.

In its sheath of darkness

Fancy’s folded wing

Thrills and stirs and quivers

To another spring,

When the bow is drawn across the trembling string.

In their grave of silence,

In their husk and core,

Dreams that winter buried

Feel the sap once more

Running warm and vital, as it ran before.

Into secret chambers

Where old passions sleep,

Through the long-closed shutters,

Lights of morning creep:

Through the opening doorway airs of morning sweep.

Hope resurgent, and Youth,

With their dancing train,

Mingled grief and glory,

Blended bliss and pain,

Ecstasies and agonies, come forth and live again.

Wizard hand that summoned

Each forgotten ghost,

Plays like wind or water

With the spell-bound host,

Sailing seas supernal, for no earthly coast.

Yet no magic music

That an ear can mark

Draws them winging upward

Through the mist and dark,

As the sky at sunrise draws the mounting lark.

Through the poet-spirit,

Touched with heavenly fire,

Heavenly voices whisper

In the wood and wire.

God is the musician, and my soul the lyre.

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Poems in English 

• Answers by Mark Strand by Poetry In English
• And The Black Scythe With Its Beak of Ibis by Martine Morillon-Carreau by Poetry In English
• After Forever by Mark Miller by Poetry In English
• A World So Different by Mary Etta Metcalf by Poetry In English
• A Poet I knew by Martin Zakovski by Poetry In English
• A Piece Of The Storm by Mark Strand by Poetry In English
• A Photograph on the Desk by Mary Etta Metcalf by Poetry In English
• A Misty Morning by Mary Etta Mietcalf by Poetry In English
• A Cozy Little Room by Mary Etta Metcalf by Poetry In English
• À ce point du voyage by Martine Morillon-Carreau by Poetry In English
• A Dream of Rodney King by Mary TallMountain by Poetry In English
• You Ask Why Sometimes I Say Stop by Marge Piercy by Poetry In English
• Yell of Pain by Maria Ivana Trevisani Bach by Poetry In English
• Year’s End by Marilyn Hacker by Poetry In English
• Winter Promises by Marge Piercy by Poetry In English
• What Are Big Girls Made Of? by Marge Piercy by Poetry In English
• Visiting a Dead Man on a Summer Day by Marge Piercy by Poetry In English
• Upon Julia’s Breast by Marie Starr by Poetry In English
• Unloved, unmoved by Maria Jastine Golo by Poetry In English
• Twas’ the Night Before Christmas and Santa got Drunk by Margaret Marie Hubbard by Poetry In English

More external links (open in a new tab):

Russian Commerce Agency

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Doska or the Board – write anything

Search engines:

Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)

Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.

Ecosia – a search engine that supposedly… plants trees

Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.

Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.

 

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