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
- Владимир Высоцкий – Вот Вы докатились до сороковых
- Sonnet CL by William Shakespeare
- Sonnet LXIV by William Shakespeare
- Not Intrigued With Evening by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- The Palace of Art poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Memorials Of A Tour In Scotland, 1803 XII. Yarrow Unvisited by William Wordsworth
- History by Robert Lowell
- Li Po, the moon and me by Raj Arumugam
- The Children’s Song by Rudyard Kipling
- Ode to Duty by William Wordsworth
- English Poetry. George Eliot. How Lisa Loved the King. Джордж Элиот.
- A Roxbury Garden poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Social Amenities poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
- Main to piya say naina lada aayi ray poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- Anne Pennington by Vasko Popa
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