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
- A Day Dream by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Василий Лебедев-Кумач – Жрец искусства
- Георгий Иванов – Теплятся жаркие свечи
- Владимир Высоцкий – Свадебная
- Ольга Берггольц – Какая тёмная зима
- Владимир Британишский – Ладожский канал
- What General has a Good Army. by Walt Whitman
- Владимир Маяковский – Дачный случай
- Ballade Of Dead Ladies poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Brasilia by Sylvia Plath
- After by William Ernest Henley
- I Do Not Love Thee For That Fair by Thomas Carew
- happiness.html
- Robert Burns: Behold The Hour, The Boat, Arrive:
- Михаил Кузмин – Зимнее солнце
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).
