Poems begining by E
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End Of The World
© Robinson Jeffers
When I was young in school in Switzerland, about the time of the Boer War,
We used to take it for known that the human race
Would last the earth out, not dying till the planet died. I wrote a schoolboy poem
About the last man walking in stoic dignity along the dead shore
Encounter
© Robert Francis
Those who have touched it or been touched by it
Or brushed by something that the vine has brushed,
Or burning it, have stood where the sly smoke
Has touched them-Know the meaning of its name.
Examples of Early Piety
© Isaac Watts
What blest examples do I find
Writ in the Word of Truth
Of children that began to mind
Religion in their youth!
Eulogy To A Hell Of A Dame
© Charles Bukowski
some dogs who sleep ay night
must dream of bones
and I remember your bones
in flesh
Eat Your Heart Out
© Charles Bukowski
I've come by, she says, to tell you
that this is it. I'm not kidding, it's
over. this is it.
I sit on the couch watching her arrange
Epilogue
© Richard Aldington
Che son contenti nel fuocoWe are of those that Dante saw
Glad, for love's sake, among the flames of hell,
Outdaring with a kiss all-powerful wrath;
For we have passed athwart a fiercer hell,
Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie
© Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks,
Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight,
Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic,
Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms.
Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighboring ocean
Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest.
Endymion
© Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The rising moon has hid the stars;
Her level rays, like golden bars,
Lie on the landscape green,
With shadows brown between.
Excelsior
© Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The shades of night were falling fast,
As through an Alpine village passed
A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice,
A banner with the strange device,
Excelsior!
End Racism
© Robert M. Hensel
We all must bring our Racism
to end.
A message to all, I long to send.
The colors of the world, all join as
Ears In The Turrets Hear
© Dylan Thomas
Hands grumble on the door,
Ships anchor off the bay,
Rain beats the sand and slates.
Shall I let in the stranger,
Shall I welcome the sailor,
Or stay till the day I die?
Especially When The October Wind
© Dylan Thomas
Especially when the October wind
With frosty fingers punishes my hair,
Caught by the crabbing sun I walk on fire
And cast a shadow crab upon the land,
Elegy
© Dylan Thomas
Too proud to die; broken and blind he died
The darkest way, and did not turn away,
A cold kind man brave in his narrow pride
Extol thee -- could I? Then I will
© Emily Dickinson
Extol thee -- could I? Then I will
By saying nothing new --
But just the truest truth
That thou art heavenly.
Experiment to me
© Emily Dickinson
Experiment to me
Is every one I meet
If it contain a Kernel?
The Figure of a Nut
Experiment escorts us last --
© Emily Dickinson
Experiment escorts us last --
His pungent company
Will not allow an Axiom
An Opportunity
Experience is the Angled Road
© Emily Dickinson
Experience is the Angled Road
Preferred against the Mind
By -- Paradox -- the Mind itself --
Presuming it to lead
Expectation -- is Contentment --
© Emily Dickinson
Expectation -- is Contentment --
Gain -- Satiety --
But Satiety -- Conviction
Of Necessity
Expanse cannot be lost --
© Emily Dickinson
Expanse cannot be lost --
Not Joy, but a Decree
Is Deity --
His Scene, Infinity --
Exhilaration -- is within
© Emily Dickinson
Exhilaration -- is within --
There can no Outer Wine
So royally intoxicate
As that diviner Brand
