To Double Lock
by Pierre Reverdy
I am so far from the voices
From the festival’s distant murmur
The foaming mill wheel turns back
The sob of spring water ceases
The hour has painfully glided
Over the moon’s great beaches
And in the cramped warm spaces without a crevice
I sleep head upon elbow
In the calm desert within the lamp’s circle
Terrible time inhuman time
Hunted along muddy sidewalks
Far from the limpid amphitheatre that declines glasses
Far from the decanted song born of leisure
In a bitter tussle of laughter between the teeth
A faded sorrow quaking at your roots
I prefer death forgetfulness dignity
I am so far away when I contemplate all I love
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Sonnet 120: That you were once unkind befriends me now by William Shakespeare
- Power
- Marine Snow At Mid-Depths And Down by Thomas Lux
- Debris. by Walt Whitman
- Валерий Брюсов – Дождь
- Youth And Age by William Butler Yeats
- Владимир Высоцкий – Давно, в эпоху мрачного язычества
- One’s-Self I Sing. by Walt Whitman
- Sonnet LXI by William Shakespeare
- Tears. by Walt Whitman
- Easter Snow by Winifred Mary Letts
- The French Army In Russia, 1812-13 by William Wordsworth
- To A Child Dancing In The Wind by William Butler Yeats
- Inscription For A Stone Erected At The Sowing Of A Grove Of Oaks At Chillington, Anno 1790 by William Cowper
- The Female of the Species by Rudyard Kipling
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