Poems begining by D
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Desiring to Be Given up to God
© Augustus Montague Toplady
That my heart was right with thee,
And lov'd thee with a perfect love!
O that my Lord would dwell in me,
And never from his seat remove!
Jesus, remove th' impending load,
And set my soul on fire for God!
Death In Life
© Madison Julius Cawein
Within my veins it beats
And burns within my brain;
For when the year is sad and sear
I dream the dream again.
Dora
© Edward Thomas
SHE knelt upon her brother's grave,
My little girl of six years old--
He used to be so good and brave,
The sweetest lamb of all our fold;
Disguises
© Edward Thomas
I have an arbour wherein came a toad
Most hideous to see
Immediate, seizing staff or goad,
I smote it cruelly.
Then all the place with subtle radiance glowed
I looked, and it was He!
Dionysus
© Vlanes (Vladislav Nekliaev)
Somewhere, suspended in facetless space,
the vine is spiralling, shown in the distance, with loosened hair:
the farther the eye is, the quicker, the faster it is moving,
as if all this length is bestowing on it the result
and the encouraging memory of the way, done and forgotten for good.
Drinking With Someone In The Mountains
© Li Po
As the two of us drink
together, while mountain
flowers blossom beside, we
down one cup after the other
Dancing On The Hill-Tops
© Christina Georgina Rossetti
Dancing on the hill-tops,
Singing in the valleys,
Down from the Mountain
© Li Po
As down Mount Emerald at eve I came,
The mountain moon went all the way with me.
Backward I looked, to see the heights aflame
With a pale light that glimmered eerily.
Drinking Alone
© Li Po
I take my wine jug out among the flowers
to drink alone, without friends.I raise my cup to entice the moon.
That, and my shadow, makes us three.But the moon doesn't drink,
and my shadow silently follows.I will travel with moon and shadow,
Daybreak In Alabama
© Langston Hughes
When I get to be a composer
I'm gonna write me some music about
Daybreak in Alabama
And I'm gonna put the purtiest songs in it
Democracy
© Langston Hughes
Democracy will not come
Today, this year
Nor ever
Through compromise and fear.
Dream Variations
© Langston Hughes
To fling my arms wide
In some place of the sun,
To whirl and to dance
Till the white day is done.
Dream Deferred
© Langston Hughes
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over--
like a syrupy sweet?
Dire Cure
© William Matthews
"First, do no harm," the Hippocratic
Oath begins, but before she might enjoy
such balm, the docs had to harm her tumor.
It was large, rare, and so anomalous
Dickens: Sonnets
© Algernon Charles Swinburne
CHIEF in thy generation born of men
Whom English praise acclaimed as English-born,
Day And Night
© Edith Nesbit
NIGHT, ambushed in the darkling wood,
Waited to seize the sleeping field,
Despondency
© Madison Julius Cawein
Not all the bravery that day puts on
Of gold and azure, ardent or austere,
Dream-Land (I)
© Frances Anne Kemble
All the night long you come to me in dreams,
My lady dear! Ah, wherefore do you so?
Decaying Lambskins
© Robinson Jeffers
After all, we also stand on a height. Our blood and our culture
have passed the flood-marks of any world
