Virtue By George Herbert Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky; The dew shall weep thy fall to-night, For thou must die. Sweet rose, whose hue angry and brave Bids the rash…
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I started Early — Took my Dog —
I started Early — Took my Dog — By Emily Dickenson I started Early – Took my Dog – And visited the Sea – The Mermaids in the Basement Came out to look at me – And Frigates – in…
Fletcher McGee
Fletcher McGee By Edgar Lee Masters She took my strength by minutes, She took my life by hours, She drained me like a fevered moon That saps the spinning world. The days went by like shadows, The minutes wheeled like…
Sonnet 9
Sonnet 9 By William Shakespeare Is it for fear to wet a widow’s eye, That thou consum’st thy self in single life? Ah! if thou issueless shalt hap to die, The world will wail thee like a makeless wife; The…
Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven By William Butler Yeats Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light, I…
When I am Dead, My Dearest
When I am Dead, My Dearest By Christina Rossetti When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me; Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress tree: Be the green grass above me With showers…
The House Was Quiet and The World Was Calm
The House Was Quiet and The World Was Calm By Wallace Stevens The house was quiet and the world was calm. The reader became the book; and summer night Was like the conscious being of the book. The house was…
On Being Human
On Being Human By C. S. Lewis Angelic minds, they say, by simple intelligence Behold the Forms of nature. They discern Unerringly the Archtypes, all the verities Which mortals lack or indirectly learn. Transparent in primordial truth, unvarying, Pure Earthness…
Al Claro De Luna (In the Light of the Moon)
Al Claro De Luna (In the Light of the Moon) by Delmira Agustini The moon is pallid and sad, the moon is bloodless and cold. I imagine the half-moon as a profile of the dead … And beyond the rekilled…
I Know My Soul
I Know My Soul By Claude McKay I plucked my soul out of its secret place, And held it to the mirror of my eye, To see it like a star against the sky, A twitching body quivering in space,…
Lana Turner Has Collapsed
Lana Turner Has Collapsed By Frank Ohara Lana Turner has collapsed! I was trotting along and suddenly it started raining and snowing and you said it was hailing but hailing hits you on the head hard so it was really…
I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed
I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed By Emily Dickinson I taste a liquor never brewed – From Tankards scooped in Pearl – Not all the Frankfort Berries Yield such an Alcohol! Inebriate of air – am I – And Debauchee of Dew – Reeling – thro’ endless summer…
A Route of Evanescence
A Route of Evanescence By Emily Dickinson A Route of Evanescence, With a revolving Wheel – A Resonance of Emerald A Rush of Cochineal – And every Blossom on the Bush Adjusts it’s tumbled Head – The Mail from Tunis…
Inventory
Inventory By Dorothy Parker Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. Four be the things I’d been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt. Three be the things I shall never…
The House of Life 19 Silent Noon
The House of Life 19 Silent Noon By Dante Gabriel Rossetti Your hands lie open in the long fresh grass,— The finger-points look through like rosy blooms: Your eyes smile peace. The pasture gleams and glooms ‘Neath billowing skies that…
From the Dark Tower
From the Dark Tower By Countee Cullen We shall not always plant while others reap The golden increment of bursting fruit, Not always countenance, abject and mute, That lesser men should hold their brothers cheap; Not everlastingly while others sleep…
As Froth on the Face of the Deep
As Froth on the Face of the Deep By Christina Rossetti As froth on the face of the deep, As foam on the crest of the sea, As dreams at the waking of sleep, As gourd of a day and…
Wilderness
Wilderness by Carl Sandburg There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because…
All Hallows’ Eve
All Hallows’ Eve By Dorothea Tanning Be perfect, make it otherwise. Yesterday is torn in shreds. Lightning’s thousand sulfur eyes Rip apart the breathing beds. Hear bones crack and pulverize. Doom creeps in on rubber treads. Countless overwrought housewives, Minds…
Leviticus 18:22
Verse Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination – Leviticus 18:22 Meaning of Leviticus 18:22 The meaning of the verse, “Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination” is that God…