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
- Rise, O Days. by Walt Whitman
- After-Thought by William Wordsworth
- Гавриил Державин – Жуковскому и Родзянке, приславшим с большими похвалами автору перевод его оды «Бог» на французском языке
- The Dream of Eugene Aram by Thomas Hood
- A Little Te Deum Of The Commonplace by John Oxenham
- A Late Walk by Robert Frost
- Shrodon Feäir by William Barnes
- Robert Burns: Kellyburn Braes:
- Алексей Жемчужников – Отголосок девятой симфонии Бетховена
- Ontological by Maggie Anderson
- Meadowsweet by William Allingham
- Владимир Корнилов – Маросейка
- Executive poem – John Betjeman poems | Poems and Poetry
- Федор Сваровский – Путешественники во времени 9
- The Master of the Dance by Vachel Lindsay
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).
