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Rosa Flammea
© Arthur Symons
Beautiful demon, O veil those eyes of fire,
Cover your breads that are whiter than milk, and ruddy
Sakontala.
© Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
WOULDST thou the blossoms of spring, as well as the fruits of
the autumn,
Brother Jonathan's Lament for Sister Caroline
© Oliver Wendell Holmes
SHE has gone,- she has left us in passion and pride,-
Our stormy-browed sister, so long at our side!
She has torn her own star from our firmament's glow,
And turned on her brother the face of a foe!
Lamp Of Love
© Rabindranath Tagore
Misery knocks at thy door,
and her message is that thy lord is wakeful,
and he calls thee to the love-tryst through the darkness of night.
May.
© Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
LIGHT and silv'ry cloudlets hoverIn the air, as yet scarce warm;
Mild, with glimmer soft tinged over,Peeps the sun through fragrant balm.
Gently rolls and heaves the oceanAs its waves the bank o'erflow.
And with ever restless motionMoves the verdure to and fro,Mirror'd brightly far below.What is now the foliage moving?Air is still, and hush'd the breeze,
An Officer Deplores The Misery Of The Time
© Confucius
In the fourth month summer shines;
In the sixth the heat declines.
Nature thus grants men relief;
Tyranny gives only grief.
Were not my forefathers men?
Can my suffering 'scape their ken?
Elegy IV. Anno Aet. 18. To My Tutor, Thomas Young, Chaplain Of The English Merchants Resident At Ham
© William Cowper
Hence, my epistle--skim the Deep--fly o'er
Yon smooth expanse to the Teutonic shore!
Long Marriage by Gerald Fleming: American Life in Poetry #208 Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate 2004-20
© Ted Kooser
To have a helpful companion as you travel through life is a marvelous gift. This poem by Gerald Fleming, a long-time teacher in the San Francisco public schools, celebrates just such a relationship.
Long Marriage
The Wrangler.
© Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
ONE day a shameless and impudent wight
Went into a shop full of steel wares bright,
Arranged with art upon ev'ry shelf.
He fancied they were all meant for himself;
Die Lehrende Astronomie
© Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Der Stolz, der Torheit Eigentum,
Verkennt, zu eignem Trost, sich gerne;
Die Demut ist des Weisen Ruhm,
Und die lernt er bei euch, ihr Sterne!
Und wird nur gross, weil er euch kennet,
Und euern Gott auch seinen nennet.
Sicilian Song.
© Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
YE black and roguish eyes,If ye command.
Each house in ruins lies,No town can stand.
And shall my bosom's chain,--This plaster wall,?
To think one moment, deign,--Shall ii not fall?1811.
The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part IV: Vita Nova: CIV
© Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
THE SAME CONTINUED
O world, in very truth thou art too young,
They gave thee love who measured out thy skies,
And, when they found for thee another star,
A Storm In Summer
© Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
Nature that day a woman was in weakness,
A woman in her impotent high wrath.
At the dawn we watched it, a low cloud half seen
Under the sun; an innocent child's face
Tempura Mutantur
© James Russell Lowell
The world turns mild; democracy, they say,
Rounds the sharp knobs of character away,
A Glass Of Wine
© Wilcox Ella Wheeler
"What's in a glass of wine?"
There, set the glass where I can look within.
Neither This Nor That.
© Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
IF thou to be a slave shouldst will,
Thou'lt get no pity, but fare ill;
And if a master thou wouldst be,
The world will view it angrily;
And if in statu quo thou stay,
That thou art but a fool, they'll say.
