Poetry Archive Updated
Steve Spanoudis
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This week's additions to:
http://www.lexmark.com/data/poem/poem.html
1.The Strange Lady by William Cullen Bryant (Steve)
2.The Skies by William Cullen Bryant (Steve)
3.October by William Cullen Bryant (Steve)
4.November by William Cullen Bryant (Steve)
5.The Gladness of Nature by William Cullen Bryant (Steve)
6.My life had stood by Emily Dickinson, thanks to Cheryl Gastald
7.Epitaph by Ben Jonson, (Nelson)
8.Inviting a Friend to Supper by Ben Jonson, (Nelson)
9.The Hourglass by Ben Jonson, (Nelson)
10.My Picture Left in Scotland by Ben Jonson, (Nelson)
11.Slow, slow, fresh fount by Ben Jonson, (Nelson)
12.So breaks the sun by Ben Jonson, (Nelson)
13.Very True, The Linnets Sing by Walter Savage Landor (Nelson)
Very True, The Linnets Sing
Very true, the linnets sing
Sweetest in the leaves of spring:
You have found in all these leaves
That which changes and deceives,
And, to pine by sun or star,
Left them, false ones as they are.
But there be who walk beside
Autumn's, till they all have died,
And who lend a patient ear
To low notes from branches sere.
Walter Savage Landor
14.hy, Why Repine by Walter Savage Landor (Nelson)
15.The Chrysolites and Rubies Bacchus Brings by Walter Savage Landor (Nelson)
16.Death Stands Above Me by Walter Savage Landor (Nelson)
17.God Scatters Beauty by Walter Savage Landor (Nelson)
18.I Entreat You, Alfred Tennyson by Walter Savage Landor (Nelson)
19.One Lovely Name by Walter Savage Landor (Nelson)
20.Wild Peaches - a 4-Sonnet Cycle by Elinor Wylie (Nelson)
21.I hereby swear that to uphold your house by Elinor Wylie (Nelson)
22.Beauty by Elinor Wylie (Nelson)
23.Farewell, Sweet Dust by Elinor Wylie (Nelson)
24.Parting Gift by Elinor Wylie (Nelson)
Parting Gift
I cannot give you the Metropolitan Tower;
I cannot give you heaven;
Nor the nine Visigoth crowns in the Cluny Museum;
Nor happiness, even.
But I can give you a very small purse
Made out of field-mouse skin,
With a painted picture of the universe
And seven blue tears therein.
I cannot give you the island of Capri;
I cannot give you beauty;
Nor bake you marvelous crusty cherry pies
With love and duty.
But I can give you a very little locket
Made out of wildcat hide:
Put it in your left-hand pocket
And never look inside.
Elinor Wylie
25.Innocent Landscape by Elinor Wylie (Nelson)
26.Address to my Soul by Elinor Wylie (Nelson)
27.The Persian Kitten by Elinor Wylie (Nelson)
28.A Courtesy by Elinor Wylie (Nelson)
29.To a Book by Elinor Wylie (Nelson)
30.A Red Carpet for Shelley - 4-Sonnet Cycle (Nelson)
Steve
Steve Spanoudis
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Recent Additions to http://www.lexmark.com/data/poem/poem.html
(Note: Bob = Contributed by Bob Blair,
Steve = Contributed by Steve Spanoudis,
Nelson = Contributed by Nelson Miller,
all other contributions are as marked)
May 26th
The primary component of this week's update is Bob's continued march
through the H's. Nelson Miller has followed up last week's poems by
Elinor Wylie with a likely portrait of her in verse, written by her
husband at the time, William Rose Benet. I've just acquired books by
Sam Walter Foss and Ella Wheeler, so look for more of them in the near
future. The Bibliography has also been updated.
I will be at a medical trade show in New York the first week in June
(which is always a heavy travel month), so look for updates to be
erratic for a while. --Steve
1.The Woodcutter's Wife by William Rose Benet (Nelson)
2.Adonis by H.D., thanks to Joshua Boitnott
3.Irradiations by John Gould Fletcher (Nelson)
4.Toil's Sweet Content by Sam Walter Foss (Steve)
5.From Greenland's Icy Mountains by Reginald Heber (Bob)
6.Sympathy by Reginald Heber (Bob)
7.If Thou wert by my side by Reginald Heber (Bob)
8.Calm on the Bosom of our God by Felicia Dorothea Hemans (Bob)
9.Landing of the Pilgrims by Felicia Dorothea Hemans (Bob)
10.To W.A. by William Ernest Henley (Bob)
11.I.M.: Margaritae Sorori by William Ernest Henley (Bob)
12.England, My England by William Ernest Henley (Bob)
13.The Green Estaminet by A.P. Herbert (Bob)
14.To a Worthy Person by A.P. Herbert (Bob)
15.Alone, in an Inn, at Southhampton by Aaron Hill (Bob)
16.Time You Old Gipsy Man by Ralph Hodgson (Bob)
17.A Boy's Song by James Hogg (Bob)
18.The Deacon's Masterpiece by Oliver Wendell Holmes (Bob)
19.Silence by Thomas Hood (Bob)
20.Ruth by Thomas Hood (Bob)
21.The Dream of Eugene Aram by Thomas Hood (Bob)
22.Faithless Sally Brown by Thomas Hood (Bob)
23."Song of the Chattahoochee" by Sidney Lanier (Nelson)
24.From the Flats by Sidney Lanier (Nelson)
25.Two Sunsets by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Steve)
26."Artist's Life" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Steve)
Steve