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A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice, <br> | A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice, <br> | ||
A banner with the strange device, <br> | A banner with the strange device, <br> | ||
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So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind: <br> | So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind: <br> | ||
Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. Crowned <br> | Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. Crowned <br> | ||
| − | With lilies and with laurel they go; but I am not resigned....}} | + | With lilies and with laurel they go; but I am not resigned...}} |
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| + | ==Paterson== | ||
| + | Clancy of the Overflow (http://www.middlemiss.org/lit/authors/patersonab/poetry/clancy.html) | ||
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| + | I had written him a letter which I had, for want of better <br> | ||
| + | Knowledge, sent to where I met him down the Lachlan, years ago, <br> | ||
| + | He was shearing when I knew him, so I sent the letter to him, <br> | ||
| + | Just "on spec", addressed as follows: "Clancy, of The Overflow"...}} | ||
==Langdon Smith== | ==Langdon Smith== | ||
Revision as of 16:00, 19 January 2021
Baudelaire
Harmonie du soir, https://fleursdumal.org/poem/142
Voici venir les temps où vibrant sur sa tige
Chaque fleur s'évapore ainsi qu'un encensoir;
Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l'air du soir;
Valse mélancolique et langoureux vertige! ...
Longfellow
Excelsior, https://www.bartleby.com/102/62.html Excelsior:
THE SHADES of night were falling fast,
As through an Alpine village passed
A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice,
A banner with the strange device,
Excelsior!...
Millay
Dirge Without Music, https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52773/dirge-without-music
I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.
So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind:
Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. Crowned
With lilies and with laurel they go; but I am not resigned...
Paterson
Clancy of the Overflow (http://www.middlemiss.org/lit/authors/patersonab/poetry/clancy.html)
I had written him a letter which I had, for want of better
Knowledge, sent to where I met him down the Lachlan, years ago,
He was shearing when I knew him, so I sent the letter to him,
Just "on spec", addressed as follows: "Clancy, of The Overflow"...
Langdon Smith
Evolution ( https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/int/evolution.html; see also https://reason.com/volokh/2021/01/18/poetry-monday-evolution-by-langdon-smith/)
When you were a tadpole and I was a fish
In the Paleozoic time,
And side by side on the ebbing tide
We sprawled through the ooze and slime,
Or skittered with many a caudal flip
Through the depths of the Cambrian fen,
My heart was rife with the joy of life,
For I loved you even then…
