Poems begining by D
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Death and Resurrection of Constantinos Palaeologos
© Odysseas Elytis
Far from the world where his spirit sought
to bring Paradise to his measure
And harder even than stone
for no one had ever looked
on him tenderly - at times his crooked teeth
whitened strangely
Das Bild An Hrn. H.
© Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Das, Maler, ist dein Meisterstuecke!
Ja, H**, ja; an Anmut reich,
Sieht dies Kind meinem Kinde gleich.
Das ist sein Haar; dies seine Blicke;
Das ist sein Mund; das ist sein Kinn.
Da Comica Man
© Thomas Augustine Daly
Giacobbe Finelli so funny, O! My!
By tweestin hees face an by weenkin hees eye
Daffodils
© William Henry Ogilvie
Ho! You there, selling daffodils along the windy street,
Poor drooping, dusty daffodils - but oh! so Summer sweet!
Green stems that stab with loveliness, rich petal-cups to hold
The wine of Spring to lips that cling like bees about their gold!
Dedication From Moremi
© Wole Soyinka
Earth will not share the rafter's envy; dung floors
Break, not the gecko's slight skin, but its fall
Taste this soil for death and plumb her deep for life
Dear Heart
© James Joyce
Dear heart, why will you use me so?
Dear eyes that gently me upbraid,
Still are you beautiful - - but O,
How is your beauty raimented!
Dreams
© Sara Teasdale
I gave my life to another lover,
I gave my love, and all, and all-
But over a dream the past will hover,
Out of a dream the past will call.
Disinherited
© John Donne
Thy father all from thee, by his last will,
Gave to the poor ; thou hast good title still.
Dream-Land (II)
© Frances Anne Kemble
When in my dreams thy lovely face,
Smiles with unwonted tender grace,
Different
© Clere Parsons
Not to say what everyone else was saying
not to believe what everyone else believed
not to do what everybody did,
then to refute what everyone else was saying
then to disprove what everyone else believed
then to deprecate what everybody did,
December Matins
© Alfred Austin
``Why, on this drear December morn,
Dost thou, lone Misselthrush, rehearse thy chanting?
Der Schmied (The Smith)
© Johann Ludwig Uhland
Ich hör' meinen Schatz,
Den Hammer er schwinget,
Das rauschet, das klinget,
Das dringt in die Weite
Die Abwechslung
© Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Ich trinke nicht stets einen Wein.
Das moechte mir zu ekel sein.
Wein aus Burgund, Wein von der Mosel Strande,
Einheimschen Wein, Wein aus dem Frankenlande,
Die wechsl ich taeglich mit Bedacht,
Weil Wechseln alles suesser macht.
Dearest, this one day we own
© Augusta Davies Webster
DEAREST, this one day we own,
Stolen from the crowd and press,
Let it be sweet silence's.
We two, heart in heart, alone;
Any speech were less.
Drafted
© Edgar Albert Guest
The biggest moment in our lives was that when first he cried,
From that day unto this, for him, we've struggled side by side.
We can recount his daily deeds, and backwards we can look,
And proudly live again the time when first a step he took.
Death Of Captain Cooke,
© William Lisle Bowles
OF "THE BELLEROPHON," KILLED IN THE SAME BATTLE.
When anxious Spain, along her rocky shore,
Don Quixote
© Madison Julius Cawein
On receiving a bottle of Sherry Wine of the same name
WHAT "blushing Hippocrene" is here! what fire
Of the "warm South" with magic of old Spain!
Through which again I seem to view the train
Death Of Gen. Jackson - An Eulogy
© George Moses Horton
Hark! from the mighty Hero's tomb,
I hear a voice proclaim!
A sound which fills the world with gloom,
But magnifies his name.
Departure
© Sylvia Plath
The figs on the fig tree in the yard are green;
Green, also, the grapes on the green vine
Shading the brickred porch tiles.
The money's run out.
