Salute the last, and everlasting day, John Donne from “Ascension,” which appears in John Donne's Poetry, published by W. W. Norton & Company … [Read more...]
T. S. Eliot
April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, T. S. Eliot, from The Wasteland … [Read more...]
Wallace Stevens
Part II From my balcony, I survey the yellow air, Reading where I have written, "The spring is like a belle undressing." From “Of the Surface of Things” by Wallace Stevens, which appears in Harmonium, published by Alfred A. Knopf. … [Read more...]
John Keats
When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou sayst, "Beauty is truth, truth beauty," – that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. lines 46–50 of “Ode on Grecian Urn” by John Keats … [Read more...]
Untitled by Anonymous
Untitled Anon, before 1530 Western wind, when wilt thou blow The small rain down can rain. Christ, if my lover were in my arms, And I in my bed again. The poem seemed familiar as I read it again, at the suggestion of Hilary Mantel (the English novelist, short story writer and critic, who in 2009, won the Man Booker Prize for her novel Wolf Hall). She offered this anonymous poem as her answer to The Guardian UK’s question: What is your … [Read more...]
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