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
- Concert Party by Siegfried Sassoon
- Владимир Маяковский – Севастопольский корреспондент “Матен” сообщает… (РОСТА №507)
- Echo by Thomas Moore
- Низами Гянджеви – Лица серебряный овал в сиянье покажи
- Kadambari by Raj Arumugam
- From The Flats. by Sidney Lanier
- An Untold Tale by Shahida Latif
- Олег Григорьев – Однажды Сережа и Оля
- The Wife Of Usher’s Well poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Вера Звягинцева – Психея
- Hurry by Marie Howe
- Forever Ya by Miraj Patel
- A Pastoral Upon The Birth of Prince Charles: Presented to the King, and Set by Mr Nic. Laniere by Robert Herrick
- On His Grotto at Twickenham poem – Alexander Pope
- Pan with Us by Robert Frost
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).
