If external action is effete
and rhyme is outmoded,
I shall revert to you,
Habakkuk, as when in a Bible class
the teacher was speaking of unrhymed verse.
He said; and I think I repeat his exact words;
“Hebrew poetry is prose
with a sort of heightened consciousness.” Ecstasy affords
the occasion and expediency determines the form.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- The Fault of It poem – Ezra Pound poems
- English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. In June. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
- The Praise Of Pindar In Imitation Of Horace His Second Ode Book 4
- Poema LX, El albergue by Mara Romero Torres
- He Remembers Forgotten Beauty by William Butler Yeats
- Passed Away Pain by Shalini Samuel
- Elegy by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Holy Tree
- The Alchemist’s Petition by Vachel Lindsay
- Robert Burns: Deluded Swain, The Pleasure:
- Fine Apricot Lodge by Wang Wei
- Жан де Лафонтен – Дафнис и Алцимадура
- Sonnet # 13 by Luis A. Estable
- The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket by Robert Lowell
- Oh fair enough are sky and plain poem – A. E. Housman
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
