Imagination poems

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Structure of Rime XXVIII: In Memoriam Wallace Stevens

© Robert Duncan

“That God is colouring Newton doth shew”—William Blake


  Erecting beyond the boundaries of all government his grand Station and Customs, I find what I have made there a Gate, a staking out of his art in Inconsequence.  I have in mind a poetry that will frame the willingness of the heart and deliver it over to the arrest of Time, a sentence  as if there could stand some solidity  most spacial in its intent against the drifts and appearances that arise and fall away in time from the crude events of physical space.  The Mind alone holds the consequence of the erection to be true, so that Desire and Imagination usurp the place of the Invisible Throne.

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Division Of An Estate

© George Moses Horton

It well bespeaks a man beheaded, quite
Divested of the laurel robe of life,
When every member struggles for its base,
The head; the power of order now recedes,

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On Mrs. Montague's Feather Hangings

© William Cowper

The Birds put off their every hue,

To dress a room for Montagu.

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Howl

© Allen Ginsberg

For Carl Solomon


I

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Faringdon Hill. Book II

© Henry James Pye

The sultry hours are past, and Phœbus now

Spreads yellower rays along the mountain's brow:

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Dusk

© Jose Asuncion Silva

The lamp that stands beside the crib
Is not yet lighted to warm the gloom
Of the blueish, opaque light falling
Through the curtains of late afternoon.

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King Of The River

© Stanley Kunitz

If the water were clear enough,

if the water were still,

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The Last Caesar

© Thomas Bailey Aldrich

In the Elysée, and had lost the day
But that around him flocked his birds of prey,
Sharp-beaked, voracious, hungry for the deed.
'Twixt hope and fear beheld great Cæsar hang!
Meanwhile, methinks, a ghostly laughter rang
Through the rotunda of the Invalides.

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On The Bust Of Helen By Canova

© George Gordon Byron

In this beloved marble view,
  Above the works and thoughts of man,
What Nature could, but would not, do,
  And Beauty and Canova can!

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The Pleasures of Imagination: Book The Third

© Mark Akenside

See! in what crouds the uncouth forms advance:
Each would outstrip the other, each prevent
Our careful search, and offer to your gaze,
Unask'd, his motley features. Wait awhile,
My curious friends! and let us first arrange
In proper order your promiscuous throng.

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Book Ninth [Residence in France]

© William Wordsworth

EVEN as a river,--partly (it might seem)

Yielding to old remembrances, and swayed

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The North Sea -- First Cycle

© Heinrich Heine

Once through heaven went shining,
Wedded and one,
Luna the Goddess, and Sol the God,
And the stars in multitudes thronged around them,
Their little, innocent children.

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At Algeciras - A Meditaton Upon Death

© William Butler Yeats

The heron-billed pale cattle-birds
That feed on some foul parasite
Of the Moroccan flocks and herds
Cross the narrow Straits to light
In the rich midnight of the garden trees
Till the dawn break upon those mingled seas.

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Going to School

© Karl Shapiro

What shall I teach in the vivid afternoon
With the sun warming the blackboard and a slip
Of cloud catching my eye?
Only the cones and sections of the moon.

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HMS Pinafore: Act I

© William Schwenck Gilbert


SCENE - Quarter-deck of H.M.S. Pinafore.  Sailors, led by
  Boatswain, discovered cleaning brasswork, splicing rope, etc.

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Children's Games

© William Carlos Williams


I
This is a schoolyard
crowded
with children

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Book Third [Residence at Cambridge]

© William Wordsworth

IT was a dreary morning when the wheels
Rolled over a wide plain o'erhung with clouds,
And nothing cheered our way till first we saw
The long-roofed chapel of King's College lift
Turrets and pinnacles in answering files,
Extended high above a dusky grove.

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Samadhi

© Paramahansa Yogananda

Vanished are the veils of light and shade,

Lifted the vapors of sorrow,

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Prophecy of a Ten Ton Cheese

© James McIntyre

Machine it could be made with ease
That could turn this monster cheese,
The greatest honour to our land
Would be this orb of finest brand,
Three hundred curd they would need squeeze
For to make this mammoth cheese.

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Book Thirteenth [Imagination And Taste, How Impaired And Restored Concluded]

© William Wordsworth

FROM Nature doth emotion come, and moods

Of calmness equally are Nature's gift: