Society poems

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Chomei at Toyama

© Ted Hughes

Swirl sleeping in the waterfall!
On motionless pools scum appearing 
 disappearing!

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Wingfoot Lake

© Rita Dove

to God.) Where she came from
was the past, 12 miles into town
where nobody had locked their back door,
and Goodyear hadn’t begun to dream of a park 
under the company symbol, a white foot 
sprouting two small wings.

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from The Prelude: Book 1: Childhood and School-time

© André Breton

 Not uselessly employ'd,
I might pursue this theme through every change
Of exercise and play, to which the year
Did summon us in its delightful round.

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Sacred And Profane Love

© Alfred Austin

Profane Love speaks
``I am the Goddess mortals call Profane,
Yet worship me as though I were divine;
Over their lives, unrecognised, I reign,
For all their thoughts are mine.

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The Sorcerer: Act I

© William Schwenck Gilbert

 For to-day young Alexis-young Alexis Pointdextre
 Is betrothed to Aline-to Aline Sangazure,
 And that pride of his sex is-of his sex is to be next her
 At the feast on the green-on the green, oh, be sure!

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Leszko The Bastard

© Alfred Austin

``Why do I bid the rising gale

To waft me from your shore?

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Characteristics Of A Child Three Years Old

© William Wordsworth

LOVING she is, and tractable, though wild;

And Innocence hath privilege in her

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Messiah (Christmas Portions)

© Mark Doty

A little heat caught
in gleaming rags,
in shrouds of veil,
 torn and sun-shot swaddlings:

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The Hunting of the Snark

© Lewis Carroll

"Just the place for a Snark!" the Bellman cried,
 As he landed his crew with care;
Supporting each man on the top of the tide
 By a finger entwined in his hair.

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from Jubilate Agno

© Christopher Smart

let elizur rejoice with the partridge


Let Elizur rejoice with the Partridge, who is a prisoner of state and is proud of his keepers.

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Society

© Ezra Pound

The family position was waning,
And on this account the little Aurelia,
Who had laughed on eighteen summers,
Now bears the palsied contact of Phidippus.

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Paradise Regain'd: Book I (1671)

© Patrick Kavanagh

I Who e're while the happy Garden sung,

By one mans disobedience lost, now sing

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Three Women

© Wilcox Ella Wheeler

My love is young, so young;
Young is her cheek, and her throat,
And life is a song to be sung
With love the word for each note.

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Lines On The Death Of S. Oliver Torrey

© John Greenleaf Whittier

SECRETARY OF THE BOSTON YOUNG MEN'S ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY.

Gone before us, O our brother,

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The Fair Youth Sonnets (18 - 77, 87 - 126)

© William Shakespeare

Comprising the largest grouping of poems, the Fair Youth sonnets are addressed to the same young man in the Procreation Sonnets. But their themes and subjects are more drastically varied.

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Fears In Solitude. Written In April, 1798, During The Alarm Of An Invasion

© Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A green and silent spot, amid the hills,
A small and silent dell!  O'er stiller place
No singing sky-lark ever poised himself.
The hills are heathy, save that swelling slope,

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Retreat

© John Fuller

I should like to live in a sunny town like this
Where every afternoon is half-day closing
And I would wait at the terminal for the one train 
Of the day, pacing the platform, and no one arriving.

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Causerie

© Allen Tate

. . . party on the stage of the Earl Carroll Theatre on
Feb. 23. At this party Joyce Hawley, a chorus-girl,
bathed in the nude in a bathtub filled with alleged
wine. New York Times.

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Hotel Lautréamont

© John Ashbery

1.
Research has shown that ballads were produced by all of society
working as a team. They didn’t just happen. There was no guesswork.
The people, then, knew what they wanted and how to get it.
We see the results in works as diverse as “Windsor Forest” and “The Wife of Usher’s Well.” 

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Killing Him: A Radio Play

© John Wesley

LISTEN TO THE RADIO PLAY
JOE, a doctoral candidate in literature
RACHEL, his fiancée
POET/CRITIC