Poems begining by D
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Deus Absconditus
© Edward Dowden
SINCE Thou dost clothe Thyself to-day in cloud,
Lord God in heaven, and no voice low or loud
Dawgs of War
© Henry Lawson
See across the early snow, far across the plain,
Where the clouds are grey and low and winter comes again;
By the sand-dune and the marshand forest black and dumb
As dusky white as their winters night, the Russian wolf-hounds come!
(Silence for a while.)
Death and Night
© James Benjamin Kenyon
The bearded grass waves in the summer breeze;
The sunlight sleeps along the distant hills;
Despair
© Mathilde Blind
Lo, wilt thou yield thyself to grief, and roll
Vanquished from thy high seat, imperial brain,
And abdicating turbulent life's control,
Be dragged a captive bound in sorrow's chain?
Nay! though my heart is breaking with its pain,
No pain on earth has power to crush my soul.
Don Juan: Canto The Seventeenth
© George Gordon Byron
The world is full of orphans: firstly, those
Who are so in the strict sense of the phrase
Destruction
© Kostas Karyotakis
On the sand the great works of the human race are built,
and like a little child Time wrecks them with his foot.
Daffodil
© William Allingham
Tantarrara! the joyous Book of Spring
Lies open, writ in blossoms; not a bird
Of evil augury is seen or heard:
Come now, like Pan's old crew, we'll dance and sing,
Or Oberon's: for hill and valley ring
To March's bugle-horn,--Earth's blood is stirred.
Drawing Near The Light
© William Morris
Lo, when we wade the tangled wood,
In haste and hurry to be there,
Nought seem its leaves and blossoms good,
For all that they be fashioned fair.
Despair
© Percy Bysshe Shelley
And canst thou mock mine agony, thus calm
In cloudless radiance, Queen of silver night?
Can you, ye flow'rets, spread your perfumed balm
Mid pearly gems of dew that shine so bright?
Dedication
© Charles Churchill
To Churchill's Sermons.
The manuscript of this unfinished poem was found among the few papers
Dejad Que La Alabe...
© Ramon Lopez Velarde
¿Existirá? ¡Quién sabe!
Mi instinto la presiente
Dejad que yo la alabe
Previamente.
Dialogue En Route
© Sylvia Plath
If only something would happen!
sighed Eve, the elevator-girl ace,
to Adam the arrogant matador
as they shot past the forty-ninth floor
in a rocketing vertical clockcase,
fast as a fallible falcon.
Do You Remember Springfield?
© Stephen Vincent Benet
The Illinois earth is black
(Do you remember, Springfield?)
The State is shaped like a heart,
Shaped like an arrowhead.
Dorcas
© George MacDonald
If I might guess, then guess I would
That, mid the gathered folk,
This gentle Dorcas one day stood,
And heard when Jesus spoke.
Die Faulheit
© Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Fleiss und Arbeit lob ich nicht.
Fleiss und Arbeit lob ein Bauer.
Ja, der Bauer selber spricht,
Fleiss und Arbeit wird ihm sauer.
Faul zu sein, sei meine Pflicht;
Diese Pflicht ermuedet nicht.
Der Fehler
© Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Angelika ist jung und reich.
An Schoenheit meiner Phyllis gleich.
Differences
© Paul Laurence Dunbar
My neighbor lives on the hill,
And I in the valley dwell,
My neighbor must look down on me,
Must I look up?--ah, well,
My neighbor lives on the hill,
And I in the valley dwell.
