Poems begining by D
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Double Ballade Of Primitive Man
© Andrew Lang
MAX, proudly your Aryans pose,
But their rigs they undoubtedly ran,
For, as every Darwinian knows,
'Twas the manner of Primitive Man!
Death Is Here And Death Is There
© Percy Bysshe Shelley
I.
Death is here and death is there,
Death is busy everywhere,
All around, within, beneath,
Above is deathand we are death.
De Votre Bonheur Il Ne Reste Que Vos Photos Sipsce
© Archibald MacLeish
And the rain since
And I have not heard
Dear Birds, Tell This To Mothers
© Eli Siegel
Fly, birds, over all grieving mothers.
Tell them, if they know more,
They will grieve less.
Tell them that the children they grieve for
Der Schlaf
© Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Ich trinke bis um Mitternacht.
Wenn neben mir der Geizhals wacht,
Daisy
© William Carlos Williams
One turns the thing over
in his hand and looks
at it from the rear: brownedged,
green and pointed scales
armor his yellow.
Duck at Haldon Ponds
© Ken Smith
Green of her tail feathers,
space of her neck doubled in water
paddles off with my mind.
Definition of Creative Art
© Boris Pasternak
With shirt wide open at the collar,
Maned as Beethoven's bust, it stands;
Our conscience, dreams, the night and love,
Are as chessmen covered by its hands.
Despair
© Frances Anne Kemble
Whene'er those forms arise before my sight,
E'en as from hideous visions of the night,
Dinah in Heaven
© Rudyard Kipling
She did not know that she was dead,
But, when the pang was o'er,
Sat down to wait her Master's tread
Upon the Golden Floor,
Departure
© Henry Van Dyke
Oh, why are you shining so bright, big Sun,
And why is the garden so gay?
Donegan's Daughter
© William Percy French
When Donegan came from the States,
Himself and his daughter were seen
De Inconstantia Foeminei Amoris
© Richard Lovelace
Nulli se dicit mulier mea nubere velle,
Quam mihi: non, si Jupiter ipse petat;
Dicit; sed mulier cupido quod dicit amanti,
In vento et rapida scribere oportet aqua.
Doctor Hilaire
© William Henry Drummond
A stranger might say if he see heem drink till he almos' fall,
"Doctor lak dat for sick folk, hes never no use at all,"
But wait till you hear de story dey 're tellin' about heem yet,
An' see if you don't hear somet'ing, mebbe you won't forget.
Die Haushaltung
© Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Zankst du schon wieder? sprach Hans Lau
Zu seiner lieben Ehefrau.
"Versoffner, unverschaemter Mann"----
Geduld, mein Kind, ich zieh mich an--
"Wo nun schon wieder hin?" Zu Weine.
Zank du alleine.
Die Einwohner Des Mondes
© Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Die Maegdchen die in sechzehn Jahren
Noch nicht das leckre Glueck erfahren,
