Fear poems
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Corn-Planting
© Peter McArthur
THE earth is awake and the birds have come,
There is life in the beat of the breeze,
Enniskillen
© Alice Guerin Crist
Oh my heart beat high with joy elate,
When Danny rode in the HuntersÂ’ Plate
The Bride Of Corinth.
© Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
[First published in Schiller's Horen, in connection
with a
friendly contest in the art of ballad-writing between the two
great poets, to which many of their finest works are owing.]
Fairy Tale
© Boris Pasternak
Once, in times forgotten,
In a fairy place,
Through the steppe, a rider
Made his way apace.
Three Odes To My Friend.
© Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
[These three Odes are addressed to a certain
Behrisch, who was tutor to Count Lindenau, and of whom Goethe gives
an odd account at the end of the Seventh Book of his Autobiography.]
Different Emotions On The Same Spot.
© Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Oh heavenly sight!
He's coming to meet me;
Perplex'd, I retreat me,
Thoughts On Jesus Christ's Descent Into Hell.
© Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
[THE remarkable Poem of which this is a literal
but faint representation, was written when Goethe was only sixteen
years old. It derives additional interest from the fact of its being
the very earliest piece of his that is preserved. The few other
pieces included by Goethe under the title of Religion and Church
are polemical, and devoid of interest to the English reader.]
The Crucifix And The Owl
© Arthur Symons
That unutterable Agony on the Crucifix
Of Jesus Christ the hideous Jews decried
Rhymed Distichs.
© Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
RHYMED DISTICHS.[The Distichs, of which these are given as a
specimen, are about forty in number.]WHO trusts in God,
Fears not His rod.THIS truth may be by all believed:
Whom God deceives, is well deceived.HOW? when? and where?--No answer comes from high;
Procemion.
© Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
WHAT God would outwardly alone control,
And on his finger whirl the mighty Whole?
He loves the inner world to move, to view
Nature in Him, Himself in Nature too,
So that what in Him works, and is, and lives,
The measure of His strength, His spirit gives.
Bantams In Pine-Woods
© Wallace Stevens
Chieftain Iffucan of Azcan in caftan
Of tan with henna hackles, halt!Damned universal cock, as if the sun
Was blackamoor to bear your blazing tail.Fat! Fat! Fat! Fat! I am the personal.
Your world is you. I am my world.You ten-foot poet among inchlings. Fat!
To My Worthy Friend Mr. Peter Lilly: On That Excellent Pict
© Richard Lovelace
Whilst the true eaglet this quick luster spies,
And by his SUN'S enlightens his owne eyes;
He cures his cares, his burthen feeles, then streight
Joyes that so lightly he can beare such weight;
Whilst either eithers passion doth borrow,
And both doe grieve the same victorious sorrow.
Paradise
© George Herbert
I BLESSE thee, Lord, because I G R O W
Among thy trees, which in a R O W
To thee both fruit and order O W.
Thirteen Ways Of Looking At A Blackbird
© Wallace Stevens
Among twenty snowy mountains,
The only moving thing
Was the eye of the black bird.
The Chimney-Sweeper's Song
© William Strode
Then up I rush with my pole and brush,
I scowre the chimney's Jacket,
I make it shine as bright as mine,
When I have rub'd and rak'd it.
A Ballad Of The French Fleet. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The Fifth)
© Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A fleet with flags arrayed
Sailed from the port of Brest,
Ode on Intimations of Immortality
© William Wordsworth
There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream,
The earth, and every common sight
Far-Darting Apollo
© Kathleen Raine
I saw the sun step like a gentleman
Dressed in black and proud as sin.
I saw the sun walk across London
Like a young M. P., risen to the occasion.
