If external action is effete
and rhyme is outmoded,
I shall revert to you,
Habakkuk, as when in a Bible class
the teacher was speaking of unrhymed verse.
He said; and I think I repeat his exact words;
“Hebrew poetry is prose
with a sort of heightened consciousness.” Ecstasy affords
the occasion and expediency determines the form.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Sea Shell poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Эмиль Верхарн – Вокруг моего дома
- Юрий Верховский – Как раненый олень кидается в поток
- Николай Карамзин – Из мелодрамы Петр Великий (Жил был в свете добрый царь)
- The Gardener LV: It Was Mid-Day by Rabindranath Tagore
- Sigh No More by William Shakespeare
- In the Carpenter’s Shop by Sara Teasdale
- Валерий Брюсов – Пифия
- Wind in the Beechwood by Siegfried Sassoon
- Since That Summer by Mike Yuan
- Morning Poem #39 by Wanda Phipps
- I love you
- In The Event Of My Demise by Tupac Shakur
- Вера Павлова – Толстые икры правителей
- Владимир Костров – 1380 год
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
