Poems begining by D
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Death's Subtle Ways
© James Shirley
Victorious men of earth, no more
Proclaim how wide your empires are;
Though you bind in every shore
And your triumphs reach as far
Death Of Gormlaith
© Dora Sigerson Shorter
Queen, your smiling lips were dumb
With that last dear name you cried,
Yet some had it, ere you died,
Niall of Ulster whispered, "Come."
Dotage
© George Herbert
False glozing pleasures, casks of happinesse,
Foolish night-fires, women's and children's wishes,
Chases in arras, guilded emptinesse,
Shadows well mounted, dreams in a career,
Embroider'd lyes, nothing between two dishes;
These are the pleasures here.
Don't Forget!
© William Schwenck Gilbert
O, my darling, O, my pet,
Whatever else you may forget,
In yonder isle beyond the sea,
O, don't forget you've married me!
Dost Thou Remember Ever
© Mathilde Blind
Dost thou remember ever, for my sake,
When we two rowed upon the rock-bound lake?
How the wind-fretted waters blew their spray
About our brows like blossom-falls of May
One memorable day?
Doctrine
© Heinrich Heine
Beat on the drum and blow the fife,
And kiss the vivandiere, my boy.
Fear nothingthat's the whole of life;
Its deepest truth, its soundest joy.
Demeter
© Madison Julius Cawein
Demeter sad! the wells of sorrow lay
Eternal gushing in thy lonely path.
Dulnesse
© George Herbert
Why do I languish thus, drooping and dulle,
As if I were all earth?
Oh give me quicknesse, that I may with mirth
Praise thee brim-full!
Der Donner
© Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Es donnert!--Freunde, lasst uns trinken!
Der Frevler und der Heuchler Heer
Der Bescheidene Wunsch
© Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Der Pfennig, den man andachtsvoll
Dem Priester beichtend geben soll,
De Nuit, La Nymphe Errante
© André Marie de Chénier
De nuit, la nymphe errante à travers le bois sombre
Aperçoit le satyre; et, le fuyant dans l'ombre,
De loin, d'un cri perfide, elle va l'appelant.
Le pied-de-chèvre accourt, sur sa trace volant,
Et dans une eau stagnante, à ses pas opposée,
Tombe, et sa plainte amère excite leur risée.
Dead- A Prisoner
© Katharine Tynan
He died the loneliest death of all,
Amid his foes he died.
But Someone's leaped the outer wall
And Someone's come inside,
And he has gotten a golden key
To set the lonesome prisoner free.
Die Luegenhafte Phyllis
© Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Mein Damon spricht:
Kind, luege nicht!
Sonst werd ich strafen muessen,
Und dich zur Strafe kuessen.
Er droht mir, sieht verdruesslich aus,
Und strafet mich schon im voraus.
Dedication
© Algernon Charles Swinburne
THE SEA gives her shells to the shingle,
The earth gives her streams to the sea;
Dornenlieder
© Charles Godfrey Leland
I.
FOR efery Rose dot ploome in spring,
Dey say an maid is porn;
For efery pain dot Rose vill make
Domestic Peace
© Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Tell me, on what holy ground
May domestic peace be found?
Halcyon daughter of the skies,
Far on fearful wing she flies,
Don Juan
© Charles Cros
Au bord dun étang bleu où leau se ride
Sous le vent discret dune nuit dété,
Parmi les jasmins, foulant lherbe humide
Avez-vous jamais, rêveur, écouté
