Browsing Archive: October, 2013

Thomas Stearns Eliot

Posted by Sara Emeli Amber on Wednesday, October 23, 2013, In : American 
Preludes
(ii)
The morning comes to consciousness
Of faint stale smells of beer
From the saw-dust trampled street
With all its muddy feet that press
To early coffee-stands.
With other masquerades
That time resumes,
One thinks of all the hands
That are raising dingy shades
In a thousand furnished rooms.

(iii)
You tossed a blanket from the bed,
You lay upon your back, and waited;
You dozed, and watched the night revealing
The thousand sordid images
Of which your soul was constituted;
They flickered against the ce...
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Louis MacNeice

Posted by Sara Emeli Amber on Wednesday, October 23, 2013, In : Irish 
Circe
'. . . vitreamque Circen'

Something of glass about her, of dead water,
Chills and holds us,
Far more fatal than painted flesh or the lodestone of live hair
This despair of crystal brilliance.
Narcissus' error
Enfolds and kills us-
Dazed with gazing on that infertile beauty
Which is our own heart's thought.
Fled away to the beasts
One cannot stop thinking; Timon
Kept on finding gold.
In parrot-ridden forest or barren coast
A more importunate voice than bird or wave
Escutcheoned on the air with ice lett...
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This is a sampling of some poets whom I have come to know and love. If you find something you like, look up the poet and do some research. I don't like typing up the really long stuff, so if you don't look them up, you might miss their best stuff! Anyway, enjoy my poetry addiction!
 
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