Christopher Found poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
I. At last; so this is you, my dear! How should I guess to find you here? So long, so long, I sought in vain In many cities, many lands, With straining eyes and groping hands; The people marvelled at my pain. They said: “But sure, the woman’s mad; What ails her, we […]
Captivity poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
The lion remembers the forest, The lion in chains; To the bird that is captive a vision Of woodland remains. One strains with his strength at the fetter, In impotent rage; One flutters in flights of a moment, And beats at the cage. If the lion were loosed from the fetter, To […]
Cambridge in the Long poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
Where drowsy sound of college-chimes Across the air is blown, And drowsy fragrance of the limes, I lie and dream alone. A dazzling radiance reigns o’er all– O’er gardens densely green, O’er old grey bridges and the small, Slow flood which slides between. This is the place; it is not strange, But […]
Borderland poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
Am I waking, am I sleeping? As the first faint dawn comes creeping Thro’ the pane, I am aware Of an unseen presence hovering, Round, above, in the dusky air: A downy bird, with an odorous wing, That fans my forehead, and sheds perfume, As sweet as love, as soft as death, Drowsy-slow through […]
Between the Showers poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
Between the showers I went my way, The glistening street was bright with flowers; It seemed that March had turned to May Between the showers. Above the shining roofs and towers The blue broke forth athwart the grey; Birds carolled in their leafless bowers. Hither and tither, swift and gay, The people […]
Ballade of a Special Edition poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
He comes; I hear him up the street– Bird of ill omen, flapping wide The pinion of a printed sheet, His hoarse note scares the eventide. Of slaughter, theft, and suicide He is the herald and the friend; Now he vociferates with pride– A double murder in Mile End! A hanging to his […]
At Dawn poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
In the night I dreamed of you; All the place was filled With your presence; in my heart The strife was stilled. All night I have dreamed of you; Now the morn is grey.– How shall I arise and face The empty day? Amy LevyAmy Levy (1861 – 1889) was […]
At a Dinner Party poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
With fruit and flowers the board is deckt, The wine and laughter flow; I’ll not complain–could one expect So dull a world to know? You look across the fruit and flowers, My glance your glances find.– It is our secret, only ours, Since all the world is blind. Amy LevyAmy […]
A Wall Flower poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
I lounge in the doorway and languish in vain While Tom, Dick and Harry are dancing with Jane My spirit rises to the music’s beat; There is a leaden fiend lurks in my feet! To move unto your motion, Love, were sweet. Somewhere, I think, some other where, not here, In other […]
A Reminiscence poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
It is so long gone by, and yet How clearly now I see it all! The glimmer of your cigarette, The little chamber, narrow and tall. Perseus; your picture in its frame; (How near they seem and yet how far!) The blaze of kindled logs; the flame Of tulips in a mighty jar. […]
A Prayer poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
Since that I may not have Love on this side the grave, Let me imagine Love. Since not mine is the bliss Of ‘claspt hands and lips that kiss,’ Let me in dreams it prove. What tho’ as the years roll No soul shall melt to my soul, Let me conceive such thing; Tho’ […]
A March Day in London poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
The east wind blows in the street to-day; The sky is blue, yet the town looks grey. ‘Tis the wind of ice, the wind of fire, Of cold despair and of hot desire, Which chills the flesh to aches and pains, And sends a fever through all the veins. From end to end, […]
A London Plane-Tree poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
Green is the plane-tree in the square, The other trees are brown; They droop and pine for country air; The plane-tree loves the town. Here from my garret-pane, I mark The plane-tree bud and blow, Shed her recuperative bark, And spread her shade below. Among her branches, in and out, The city […]
A June-Tide Echo poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
(After a Richter Concert.) In the long, sad time, when the sky was grey, And the keen blast blew through the city drear, When delight had fled from the night and the day, My chill heart whispered, ” June will be here! ” June with its roses a-sway in the sun, Its […]
A Greek Girl poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
I may not weep, not weep, and he is dead. A weary, weary weight of tears unshed Through the long day in my sad heart I bear; The horrid sun with all unpitying glare Shines down into the dreary weaving-room, Where clangs the ceaseless clatter of the loom, And ceaselessly deft maiden-fingers weave The […]
A Farewell poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
(After Heine.) The sad rain falls from Heaven, A sad bird pipes and sings ; I am sitting here at my window And watching the spires of “King’s.” O fairest of all fair places, Sweetest of all sweet towns! With the birds, and the greyness and greenness, And the men in caps […]
A Cross-Road Epitaph poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
“Am Kreuzweg wird begraben Wer selber brachte sich um.” When first the world grew dark to me I call’d on God, yet came not he. Whereon, as wearier wax’d my lot, On Love I call’d, but Love came not. When a worse evil did befall, Death, on thee only did I call. […]
Words You Said poem – Andrew Neil Maternick poems | Poems and Poetry
Remember when we played? Really was lots of fun Though that moment hasn’t stayed It’s gone; new ones have come I hold my head, rub my eye Those words you said encourage me to try Try to fulfill them By what I choose to do My hearts’ treasured gem “You’re strong […]
The Unpromised Land, Montgomery, Alabama poem – Andrew Hudgins poems | Poems and Poetry
Despite the noon sun shimmering on Court Street, each day I leave my desk, and window-shop, waste time, and use my whole lunch hour to stroll the route the marchers took. The walk is blistering– the kind of heat that might make you recall Nat Turner skinned and rendered into grease if you share […]
Sounds of your love poem – Andrew Vassell poems | Poems and Poetry
Echoes sounds of you so clear to my ears and your groom I’ll be but patiently I’ll wait on my knees. With each rhythm I write it’s you I hear, tone of your love so very clear. Melodies of your love seduces my soul and each beat that you play erupts through […]
Sexual eyes poem – Andrew Vassell poems | Poems and Poetry
I notice you wanting me, needing and lowering me with the passions in your lusting eyes, I see as I look through your eyes as you extract the content and emotions of my sex. How extremely physically sweet you feel but how your taste to me enhance a more uniquely mental feel […]
Satisfaction of my eyes poem – Andrew Vassell poems | Poems and Poetry
Stimulant art of my eyes, your image entices my sight. Gloomily lost in your world, a tranquil sight ever seen in a girl. This physical lust in you I feel, my eyes must be fulfilling it’s own dreams. Measured by my heavenly desires, a satisfaction of my depiction. Seduced by her eyes I’m […]
Praying Drunk poem – Andrew Hudgins poems | Poems and Poetry
Our Father who art in heaven, I am drunk. Again. Red wine. For which I offer thanks. I ought to start with praise, but praise comes hard to me. I stutter. Did I tell you about the woman, whom I taught, in bed, this prayer? It starts with praise; the simple form keeps things […]
Medicine to my brain poem – Andrew Vassell poems | Poems and Poetry
You’re the medicine to cure my pain, the substance to heal my brain. The pure beauty in my life, the joys that suffice me and the spark to ignite me. The ryhtm of each beat, the tunes and melody in which I find my peace and release, medicine to my brain. Love, […]
In The Well poem – Andrew Hudgins poems | Poems and Poetry
My father cinched the rope, a noose around my waist, and lowered me into the darkness. I could taste my fear. It tasted first of dark, then earth, then rot. I swung and struck my head and at that moment got another then: then blood, which spiked my mouth with iron. Hand […]
Hawk poem – Andrew Demcak poems | Poems and Poetry
Wings open, wind-carried, an angel’s book. Talons ready to change music to that of funeral dirge. Fixer, finder, life-adopter, sailing through cool ether. Mouse, you are not your hallowed body. Spectacular, the pale glory of flight, sublimely alone. One sharp cry above the May iris, or by winter, over branching pipes […]
French kiss to knickers poem – Andrew Vassell poems | Poems and Poetry
French kissing your lips with the very detail licking and tasting, exploring and touring but damn it’s tile flooring. Her magnificent smile as I feel the squeak of her pearly white teeth and soft gum sandwiching my tongue. Wow to the sight of her shape and the compliment of silk french knickers […]
Beachy Blues poem – Andrew Neil Maternick poems | Poems and Poetry
“you’re getting a whooped tail” father barks to son as i hold a mermaid’s nail spirit holding a ton Birds cross paths Along the shore Another woman laughs As waves righteously roar Sky now dark many eyes explore camera goes spark moment no more Along spirits sail Towards a setting […]
Words You Said poem – Andrew Neil Maternick poems | Poems and Poetry
Remember when we played? Really was lots of fun Though that moment hasn’t stayed It’s gone; new ones have come I hold my head, rub my eye Those words you said encourage me to try Try to fulfill them By what I choose to do My hearts’ treasured gem “You’re strong […]
A Winter Twilight poem – Angelina Weld Grimke poems | Poems and Poetry
A silence slipping around like death, Yet chased by a whisper, a sigh, a breath; One group of trees, lean, naked and cold, Inking their cress ‘gainst a sky green-gold; One path that knows where the corn flowers were; Lonely, apart, unyielding, one fir; And over it softly leaning down, One star that […]
When The Green Lies Over The Earth poem – Angelina Weld Grimke poems | Poems and Poetry
When the green lies over the earth, my dear, A mantle of witching grace, When the smile and the tear of the young child year Dimple across its face, And then flee, when the wind all day is sweet With the breath of growing things, When the wooing bird lights on restless feet […]
Universe poem – Aminu Ola Rasaq poems | Poems and Poetry
There was an All-knowing Creator of the universe, He had multiple galaxies; But the weakest cried, ‘Please don’t eat me, I’ll devour you, O feeble galaxy!’ It runs in the family of the universe Aminu Ola Rasaq Poetry In Englishwww.poetry.monster
Trees poem – Angelina Weld Grimke poems | Poems and Poetry
God made them very beautiful, the trees: He spoke and gnarled of bole or silken sleek They grew; majestic bowed or very meek; Huge-bodied, slim; sedate and full of glees. And He had pleasure deep in all of these. And to them soft and little tongues to speak Of Him to us, He […]
There is but there is not poem – Amy Haritha Suseel poems | Poems and Poetry
There is no moon, but there’s moonlight. There are no stars, but there’s stardust. There is no rainbow, but there is colour in my life. There is no garden, but there’s flower. There are no bees, but there’s honey. There is no love, but there’s a loving heart with me. There […]
The Voice poem – Andree Chedid poems | Poems and Poetry
Where is the distant voice That speaks like my soul? Buried beneath daylight’s clamor Gold and the seasons Beneath groaning streets And the ferment of cities In my grave of care And blond laughter In what bare tomb must I lie To summon the voice That speaks like my soul? Poetry […]
THE ROAD OF ANGEL poem – kapardeli eftichia poems | Poems and Poetry
A humid sweet daybreak in the wetted roofs of houses uniformly the one doubly in the other built in the line solitary road of Angel of Archangel lost the cool heart of Athens And you …you did not never enter in the houses of street with the stone walls the heart that not […]
The Nautical Why poem – Amy Nawrocki poems | Poems and Poetry
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The Final Poem poem – Andree Chedid poems | Poems and Poetry
A forge burns in my heart. I am redder than dawn, Deeper than seaweed, More distant than gulls, More hollow than wells. But I only give birth To seeds and to shells. My tongue becomes tangled in words: I no longer speak white, Nor utter black, Nor whisper gray of a wind-worn cliff, Barely […]
The Ever-Patient Woman poem – Andree Chedid poems | Poems and Poetry
In the flowing sap In her growing fever Parting her veils Cracking out of her shells Sliding out of her skins The ever-patient woman Slowly gives herself life In her volcanoes In her orchards Seeking solidity and measure Clasping her most tender flesh Straining every fine-honed fiber The ever-patient woman Slowly gives herself light. […]
Sun Light poem – Ammar Hussain poems | Poems and Poetry
From heavens it descends in sweat yellowish rays My mind is blown up by the beauty it conveys All look adorable the trees the parks the highways And I see the remarkable nature that sums up the beauty of the night It’s the time of dawn when we see the sun light My […]