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
- To The Rev. Mr. Newton : An Invitation Into The Country by William Cowper
- Happiness by Stevie Smith
- English Poetry. Algernon Charles Swinburne. The Triumph of Time. Алджернон Чарльз Суинбёрн.
- Villanelle: The Psychological Hour poem – Ezra Pound poems
- How Do You Know when Someone is in Love with You?
- Robert Burns: Delia, An Ode : “To the Editor of The Star.-Mr. Printer-If the productions of a simple ploughman can merit a place in the same paper with Sylvester Otway, and the other favourites of the Muses who illuminate the Star with the lustre of genius, your insertion of the enclosed trifle will be succeeded by future communications from-Yours, &c., R. Burns. Ellisland, near Dumfries, 18th May, 1789.”
- So Small, So Vital
- Robert Burns: Extempore In The Court Of Session:
- Sonnet CXX by William Shakespeare
- Broken wings of a Heart by Saajida Gora
- Tom O’Roughley by William Butler Yeats
- The Sanctuary by Sara Teasdale
- Николай Гумилев – Какою музыкой мой слух взволнован
- Maenad by Sylvia Plath
- Millions of Us poem – Alice Notley
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).
