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
- Father by Philip Levine
- Нина Воронель – Я не хочу опять вернуться в детство
- English Poetry. Thomas Moore. From “The Odes of Anacreon”. Ode 56. Томас Мур.
- Вера Павлова – Отпала от пола
- Иван Бунин – Богиня
- Take My Hands
- let us go with no care by Raj Arumugam
- The Peacock by William Butler Yeats
- Алексей Толстой – С тех пор как я один
- Love’s Harvest poem – Alfred Austin
- At San Giovanni Del Lago poem – Alfred Austin
- Анатолий Жигулин – Эпоха
- You Felons on Trial in Courts. by Walt Whitman
- Николай Языков – Ау
- Venus Transiens poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
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).
