Not Fair
‘T IS very true, I thought you once as fair As women in th’ idea are;* Whatever here seems beauteous, seem’d to be But a faint metaphor of thee: But then, methoughts, there something shin’d within, Which casts this lustre o’er thy skin; Nor could I choose but count it the sun’s light, Which […]
Life
Life’s a name That nothing here can truly claim; This wretched inn, where we scarce stay to bait, We call our dwelling-place! And mighty voyages we take, And mighty journeys seem to make, O’er sea and land, the little point that has no space. Because we fight and battles gain, Some captives call, and […]
Hymn To Light
First-born of Chaos, who so fair didst come From the old Negro’s darksome womb! Which, when it saw the lovely child, The melancholy mass put on kind looks and smiled, Thou tide of glory which no rest dost know, But ever ebb and ever flow! Thou golden shower of a true Jove, Who does […]
Hymn Light
First-born of Chaos, who so fair didst come From the old Negro’s darksome womb! Which, when it saw the lovely child, The melancholy mass put on kind looks and smiled, Thou tide of glory which no rest dost know, But ever ebb and ever flow! Thou golden shower of a true Jove, Who does […]
Epitaph
Underneath this marble stone, Lie two beauties joyn’d in one. Two whose loves, death could not sever, For both liv’d, both dy’d together. Two whose soules, being too divine For earth, in their own spheare now shine, Who have left their loves to Fame, And their earth to earth againe. Poetry Monster […]
Despair
Beneath this gloomy shade, By Nature only for my sorrows made, I’ll spend this voyce in crys, In tears I’ll waste these eyes By Love so vainly fed; So Lust of old the Deluge punished. Ah wretched youth! said I, “Ah, wretched youth!” twice did I sadly cry: “Ah, wretched youth!” the fields and […]
Death Sir Henry Wootton
What shall we say, since silent now is he Who when he spoke, all things would silent be? Who had so many languages in store, That only fame shall speak of him in more; Whom England now no more return’d must see; He’s gone to heaven on his fourth embassy. On earth he travell’d […]
Davideis Sacred Poem Troubles David Excerpt
BOOK I (excerpt) I sing the man who Judah’s sceptre bore In that right hand which held the crook before; Who from best poet, best of kings did grow; The two chief gifts Heav’n could on man bestow. Much danger first, much toil did he sustain, Whilst Saul and Hell cross’d his strong fate […]
Davideis A Sacred Poem Of The Troubles Of David Excerpt
BOOK I (excerpt) I sing the man who Judah’s sceptre bore In that right hand which held the crook before; Who from best poet, best of kings did grow; The two chief gifts Heav’n could on man bestow. Much danger first, much toil did he sustain, Whilst Saul and Hell cross’d his strong fate […]
Cousel
AH! what advice can I receive! No, satisfy me first; For who would physick-potions give To one that dies with thirst? A little puff of breath, we find, Small fires can quench and kill; But, when they’re great, the adverse wind Does make them greater still. Now whilst you speak, it moves me much, […]
Constantias Song
Time fly with greater speed away, Add feathers to thy wings, Till thy haste in flying brings That wished-for and expected Day. Comfort’s Son we then shall see, Though at first it darkened be With dangers yet, those clouds but gone, Our Day will put his lustre on. Then though Death’s sad night appear, […]
Constantia039s Song
Time fly with greater speed away, Add feathers to thy wings, Till thy haste in flying brings That wished-for and expected Day. Comfort’s Son we then shall see, Though at first it darkened be With dangers yet, those clouds but gone, Our Day will put his lustre on. Then though Death’s sad night appear, […]
Concealment
No; to what purpose should I speak? No, wretched heart! swell till you break. She cannot love me if she would; And, to say truth, ’twere pity that she should. No; to the grave thy sorrows bear; As silent as they will be there: Since that lov’d hand this mortal wound does give, So […]
Chronicle
A BALLAD. MARGARITA first possest, If I remember well, my brest, Margarita first of all; But when awhile the wanton maid With my restless heart had play’d, Martha took the flying ball. Martha soon did it resign To the beauteous Catharine. Beauteous Catharine gave place (Though loth and angry she to part With the […]
Change
LOVE in her sunny eyes does basking play; Love walks the pleasant mazes of her hair; Love does on both her lips for ever stray And sows and reaps a thousand kisses there. In all her outward parts Love’s always seen; But, oh, He never went within. Within Love’s foes, his greatest foes abide, […]
Beauty
LIBERAL Nature did dispence To all things Arms for their defence; And some she arms with sin’ewy force, And some with swiftness in the course; Some with hard Hoofs, or forked claws, And some with Horns, or tusked jaws. And some with Scales, and some with Wings, And some with Teeth, and some with […]
Bathing River
The fish around her crowded, as they do To the false light that treacherous fisher shew, And all with as much ease might taken be, As she at first took me; For ne’er did light so clear Among the waves appear, Though every night the sun himself set there. Why to mute fish shouldst […]
Bathing In The River
The fish around her crowded, as they do To the false light that treacherous fisher shew, And all with as much ease might taken be, As she at first took me; For ne’er did light so clear Among the waves appear, Though every night the sun himself set there. Why to mute fish shouldst […]
Answer Copy Verses Sent Me Jersey
As to a northern people (whom the sun Uses just as the Romish church has done Her prophane laity, and does assign Bread only both to serve for bread and wine) A rich Canary fleet welcome arrives; Such comfort to us here your letter gives, Fraught with brisk racy verses; in which we The […]
Anacreontics The Swallow
FOOLISH prater, what dost thou So early at my window do? Cruel bird, thou’st ta’en away A dream out of my arms to-day; A dream that ne’er must equall’d be By all that waking eyes may see. Thou this damage to repair Nothing half so sweet and fair, Nothing half so good, canst bring, […]
Anacreontics The Epicure
UNDERNEATH this myrtle shade, On flowerly beds supinely laid, With odorous oils my head o’erflowing, And around it roses growing, What should I do but drink away The heat and troubles of the day? In this more than kingly state Love himself on me shall wait. Fill to me, Love! nay, fill it up! […]
Anacreontics Drinking
THE thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks and gapes for drink again; The plants suck in the earth, and are With constant drinking fresh and fair; The sea itself (which one would think Should have but little need of drink) Drinks twice ten thousand rivers up, So fill’d that they o’erflow the […]
An Answer To A Copy Of Verses Sent Me To Jersey
As to a northern people (whom the sun Uses just as the Romish church has done Her prophane laity, and does assign Bread only both to serve for bread and wine) A rich Canary fleet welcome arrives; Such comfort to us here your letter gives, Fraught with brisk racy verses; in which we The […]
Against Hope
HOPE, whose weak Being ruin’d is, Alike if it succeed, and if it miss ; Whom Good or Ill does equally confound, And both the Horns of Fates Dilemma wound. Vain shadow! which dost vanish quite, Both at full Noon, and perfect Night ! The Stars have not a possibility Of blessing Thee ; […]
Against Fruition
No; thou’rt a fool, I’ll swear, if e’er thou grant; Much of my veneration thou must want, When once thy kindness puts my ignorance out, For a learn’d age is always least devout. Keep still thy distance; for at once to me Goddess and woman too thou canst not be; Thou’rt queen of all […]
Summer Moon
Summer Moon by Frederick Kesner ` There is a mystery about her That even at Night she casts shadows; You’ll find her playful as well as kind, No other friend in the dark to find. She’s out when it’s too early for bed, When the lights are on and […]
Stars
Stars, I have seen them fall, But when they drop and die No star is lost at all From all the star-sown sky. The toil of all that be Helps not the primal fault; It rains into the sea, And still the sea is salt. Poetry Monster – Home A few […]
Love Is Just Like The Rain
Love Is Just Like the Rain by Hartati Nurwijaya The dry land Children who have no toys Trees are getting dry Glad the rain is coming River is flooding The ditch is blocked The streets are congested Blame it on the rain Love is just like the rain It comes […]
Xai Kou From Book Seeds Of Faith
Poems about Poetry xai-kou from book -seeds of faith by kapardeli eftichia From my book Seeds of Faith winning first prizes Passionately loved the world Fermented in the sun and became a deep sigh Joined on screaming painful echoes I have the dust of years Do not ask you […]
Xai Kou1
Poems about Poetry xai-kou by kapardeli eftichia From my book PATHWAYS AND PASSAGE Thousands of hearts Thousands of desires Books … in the dust of libraries tireless fighters The beauty uprooted, but the seed Invisible blooms again Hope pinned Stou unknown strobe light The arc ancient dance […]
Xai Kou0
Poems about Poetry xai-kou by kapardeli eftichia A !POETRY PRIZE NATIONAL CONFERENCE 2007-FROM MY BOOK BLUE iris THE eyes wide open stubbornly capture the light of Dawn With the feeling of affection covered his body of Dreams the soul With worn out ideas are not coming back under the […]
Xai Kou
Poems about Poetry xai-kou by kapardeli eftichia ** In the Power of Hope Exits stealth life ** ** Vision of the world Become a citizen of Heaven ** ** Two hands twined much love for life ** kapardeli eftichia Copyright ©: […]
Vorticism Is A Choka In Its Modular Home
Poems about Poetry vorticism is a choka in its modular home by Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé their ballads over again, various, volleying half apparitions – voices end-of-line feelings tethered to a stone or bluing outpost trochee here, tripping now, over tundra trochee feelings like the land slashed by […]
Violets Beauty Passing
Poems about Poetry Violets- beauty -passing by kapardeli eftichia The naked body of your violets dressed in the few days of Spring velvet dress In the intoxication of your arms I got involved in the hot sun in the breeze, at a glance a reeling The flower of the heart […]
Victor
Poems about Poetry Victor by kapardeli eftichia In the maelstrom of time you run In the maelstrom of freedom You subjugate In the maelstrom of your brain Comes out victor kapardeli eftichia Copyright ©: kapardeli eftichia Poetry Monster – […]
Untitled
Poems about Poetry Untitled by kapardeli eftichia At the dawn of life in a common pathway that God be with my fellow consolation Happy love me knowledge gave me life and became a fighter Heart shield put him to keep because those who love him love them B AWARD […]
Traveling
Poems about Poetry TRAVELING by kapardeli eftichia Travel!! in the chapel of my heart red sky in the west die out big flame that melts the touch, heart The stars of a chain where a strong following Thoughts …. Who grow up in a confused very old drawing of the sky […]
Tracks In The Private Country
Poems about Poetry Tracks in the Private Country by T. Wignesan The memory in need Is the implacable enemy of the creed, Waits and watches its foe The all-clawing frenzy on tip-toe; Quiescent in the instant’s repose The thud of flurried gnawing years evoke. The poet in his solitary […]
Thoughts Religious Content
Poems about Poetry THOUGHTS RELIGIOUS CONTENT by kapardeli eftichia What is it that leads to truth? What is it that fills our souls with good feelings and noble? The divine word. All others lead to error in panic. The enigma of existence, the mystery of life How […]
The World
Poems about Poetry THE WORLD by kapardeli eftichia The world turns changes hands changes shape resembles matter ..earth …where it is flown in holes of sky and ground another time ,again the matter and the earth take soul there or joy the happiness.. feelings where become pretty the simple life I […]