CORRIDOR POEMS
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Rain On Me
Dry as a dessert i am
Would you rain on me once again
I chased you down the dark corridor
I couldn't find you
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Maite Lemekwane
Dry as a dessert i am
Would you rain on me once again
I chased you down the dark corridor
I couldn't find you
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Maite Lemekwane
When I'm Killed
When I'm killed, don't think of me
Buried there in Cambrin Wood,
Nor as in Zion think of me
With the Intolerable Good.
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Robert Graves
When I'm killed, don't think of me
Buried there in Cambrin Wood,
Nor as in Zion think of me
With the Intolerable Good.
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Robert Graves
The Queen's Demand
Rama shall be crowned at sunrise, so did royal bards proclaim,
Every rite arranged and ordered, Dasa-ratha homeward came,
To the fairest of his consorts, dearest to his ancient heart,
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Valmiki
Rama shall be crowned at sunrise, so did royal bards proclaim,
Every rite arranged and ordered, Dasa-ratha homeward came,
To the fairest of his consorts, dearest to his ancient heart,
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Valmiki
Lancelot 04
Not having viewed Carleon or Carlisle,
The King came home to Camelot after midnight,
Feigning an ill not feigned; and his return
Brought Bedivere, and after him Gawaine,
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Edwin Arlington Robinson
Not having viewed Carleon or Carlisle,
The King came home to Camelot after midnight,
Feigning an ill not feigned; and his return
Brought Bedivere, and after him Gawaine,
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Edwin Arlington Robinson
Lancelot 05
Gawaine, his body trembling and his heart
Pounding as if he were a boy in battle,
Sat crouched as far away from everything
As walls would give him distance. Bedivere
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Edwin Arlington Robinson
Gawaine, his body trembling and his heart
Pounding as if he were a boy in battle,
Sat crouched as far away from everything
As walls would give him distance. Bedivere
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Edwin Arlington Robinson
The Corridor
It may have been the pride in me for aught
I know, or just a patronizing whim;
But call it freak or fancy, or what not,
I cannot hide that hungry face of him.
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Edwin Arlington Robinson
It may have been the pride in me for aught
I know, or just a patronizing whim;
But call it freak or fancy, or what not,
I cannot hide that hungry face of him.
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Edwin Arlington Robinson
From The Woolworth Tower
Vivid with love, eager for greater beauty
Out of the night we come
Into the corridor, brilliant and warm.
A metal door slides open,
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Sara Teasdale
Vivid with love, eager for greater beauty
Out of the night we come
Into the corridor, brilliant and warm.
A metal door slides open,
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Sara Teasdale
Clinical
Hist? . . .
Through the corridor's echoes,
Louder and nearer
Comes a great shuffling of feet.
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William Ernest Henley
Hist? . . .
Through the corridor's echoes,
Louder and nearer
Comes a great shuffling of feet.
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William Ernest Henley
Escape
(August 6, 1916.-Officer previously reported
died of wounds, now reported wounded: Graves, Captain R.,
Royal Welch Fusiliers.)
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Robert Graves
(August 6, 1916.-Officer previously reported
died of wounds, now reported wounded: Graves, Captain R.,
Royal Welch Fusiliers.)
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Robert Graves
The Crisis
Be-wigged and gowned, the Speaker frowned,
And his frown was ill to see.
'Oddsfish!' he spake, 'Do I mistake?
Stands 'And' where 'Or' should be?
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Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
Be-wigged and gowned, the Speaker frowned,
And his frown was ill to see.
'Oddsfish!' he spake, 'Do I mistake?
Stands 'And' where 'Or' should be?
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Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
Kings Must Die
Alphonso Rex who died in Rome
Was quite a fistful as a kid;
For when I visited his home,
That gorgeous palace in Madrid,
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Robert William Service
Alphonso Rex who died in Rome
Was quite a fistful as a kid;
For when I visited his home,
That gorgeous palace in Madrid,
.....
Robert William Service
The Princes' Quest - Part The Second
A fearful and a lovely thing is Sleep,
And mighty store of secrets hath in keep;
And those there were of old who well could guess
What meant his fearfulness and loveliness,
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William Watson
A fearful and a lovely thing is Sleep,
And mighty store of secrets hath in keep;
And those there were of old who well could guess
What meant his fearfulness and loveliness,
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William Watson
Coupling
Wherever he looks, standing still in the city,
are people born of coupling, walking in gray suits
and ties, in long dresses and coiffed hair,
speaking elegantly, of themselves and of each other,
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David Ignatow
Wherever he looks, standing still in the city,
are people born of coupling, walking in gray suits
and ties, in long dresses and coiffed hair,
speaking elegantly, of themselves and of each other,
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David Ignatow
Michael Robartes Remembers Forgotten Beauty
When my arms wrap you round I press
My heart upon the loveliness
That has long faded from the world;
The jewelled crowns that kings have hurled
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William Butler Yeats
When my arms wrap you round I press
My heart upon the loveliness
That has long faded from the world;
The jewelled crowns that kings have hurled
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William Butler Yeats
Myris: Alexandria, A.d. 340
When I heard the terrible news, that Myris was dead,
I went to his house, although I avoid
going to the houses of Christians,
especially during times of mourning or festivity.
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Constantine P. Cavafy
When I heard the terrible news, that Myris was dead,
I went to his house, although I avoid
going to the houses of Christians,
especially during times of mourning or festivity.
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Constantine P. Cavafy
Leroy Goldman
“What will you do when you come to die,
If all your life long you have rejected Jesus,
And know as you lie there, He is not your friend?”
Over and over I said, I, the revivalist.
.....
Edgar Lee Masters
“What will you do when you come to die,
If all your life long you have rejected Jesus,
And know as you lie there, He is not your friend?”
Over and over I said, I, the revivalist.
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Edgar Lee Masters
The Monks Of St. Mark
'Tis midnight: the sky is with clouds overcast;
The forest-trees bend in the loud-rushing blast;
The rain strongly beats on these time-hallow'd spires;
The lightning pours swiftly its blue-pointed fires;
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Thomas Love Peacock
'Tis midnight: the sky is with clouds overcast;
The forest-trees bend in the loud-rushing blast;
The rain strongly beats on these time-hallow'd spires;
The lightning pours swiftly its blue-pointed fires;
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Thomas Love Peacock
Truth To Tell
Vous n'etes que les masques sur des faces masquees
-Apollinaire
Start, then, with a sense of beginning, of sleep
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Jared Carter
Vous n'etes que les masques sur des faces masquees
-Apollinaire
Start, then, with a sense of beginning, of sleep
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Jared Carter
Interior
The gaunt brown walls
Look infinite in their decent meanness.
There is nothing of home in the noisy kettle,
The fulsome fire.
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William Ernest Henley
The gaunt brown walls
Look infinite in their decent meanness.
There is nothing of home in the noisy kettle,
The fulsome fire.
.....
William Ernest Henley
Doors
Like a young child who to his mother's door
Runs eager for the welcoming embrace,
And finds the door shut, and with troubled face
Calls and through sobbing calls, and o'er and o'er
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Hermann Hagedorn
Like a young child who to his mother's door
Runs eager for the welcoming embrace,
And finds the door shut, and with troubled face
Calls and through sobbing calls, and o'er and o'er
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Hermann Hagedorn
The Two Keys
There was a Boy, long years ago,
Who hour by hour awake would lie,
And watch the white moon gliding slow
Along her pathway in the sky.
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Victor James Daley
There was a Boy, long years ago,
Who hour by hour awake would lie,
And watch the white moon gliding slow
Along her pathway in the sky.
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Victor James Daley
Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat
There's a whisper down the line at 11.39
When the Night Mail's ready to depart,
Saying “Skimble where is Skimble has he gone to hunt the thimble?
We must find him or the train can't start.”
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T. S. Eliot
There's a whisper down the line at 11.39
When the Night Mail's ready to depart,
Saying “Skimble where is Skimble has he gone to hunt the thimble?
We must find him or the train can't start.”
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T. S. Eliot
Sweeney Erect
And the trees about me,
Let them be dry and leafless; let the rocks
Groan with continual surges; and behind me
Make all a desolation. Look, look, wenches!
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T. S. Eliot
And the trees about me,
Let them be dry and leafless; let the rocks
Groan with continual surges; and behind me
Make all a desolation. Look, look, wenches!
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T. S. Eliot
He Remembers Forgotten Beauty
When my arms wrap you round I press
My heart upon the loveliness
That has long faded from the world;
The jewelled crowns that kings have hurled
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William Butler Yeats
When my arms wrap you round I press
My heart upon the loveliness
That has long faded from the world;
The jewelled crowns that kings have hurled
.....
William Butler Yeats
Kings Must Die
Alphonso Rex who died in Rome
Was quite a fistful as a kid;
For when I visited his home,
That gorgeous palace in Madrid,
.....
Robert Service
Alphonso Rex who died in Rome
Was quite a fistful as a kid;
For when I visited his home,
That gorgeous palace in Madrid,
.....
Robert Service
Ashtaroth: A Dramatic Lyric
Dramatis Personae
Hugo, a Norman Baron and a Scholar.
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Adam Lindsay Gordon
Dramatis Personae
Hugo, a Norman Baron and a Scholar.
.....
Adam Lindsay Gordon
Le Roy Goldman
"What will you do when you come to die,
If all your life long you have rejected Jesus,
And know as you lie there, He is not your friend?"
Over and over I said, I, the revivalist.
.....
Edgar Lee Masters
"What will you do when you come to die,
If all your life long you have rejected Jesus,
And know as you lie there, He is not your friend?"
Over and over I said, I, the revivalist.
.....
Edgar Lee Masters
Toast Funèbre
O de notre bonheur, toi, le fatal emblème!
Salut de la démence et libation blême,
Ne crois pas qu'au magique espoir du corridor
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Stéphane Mallarmé
O de notre bonheur, toi, le fatal emblème!
Salut de la démence et libation blême,
Ne crois pas qu'au magique espoir du corridor
.....
Stéphane Mallarmé
Place De La Bastille, Paris
How dear the sky has been above this place!
Small treasures of this sky that we see here
Seen weak through prison-bars from year to year;
Eyed with a painful prayer upon God's grace
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
How dear the sky has been above this place!
Small treasures of this sky that we see here
Seen weak through prison-bars from year to year;
Eyed with a painful prayer upon God's grace
.....
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Poem
(Abbreviated from the conversation with Mr. T E H.
Over the flat slope of St Eloi
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Ezra Pound
(Abbreviated from the conversation with Mr. T E H.
Over the flat slope of St Eloi
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Ezra Pound
To The Genius Of Romance
Oh! thou who, in my early youth,
When fancy wore the garb of truth,
Wert wont to win my infant feet
To some retired, deep fabled seat,
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Henry Kirk White
Oh! thou who, in my early youth,
When fancy wore the garb of truth,
Wert wont to win my infant feet
To some retired, deep fabled seat,
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Henry Kirk White
Anhelli - Chapter 9
And when the Shaman was about to go forth with Anhelli under the stars,
having comforted some of the prisoners,
he heard a great clanking in one of the corridors.
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Juliusz Slowacki
And when the Shaman was about to go forth with Anhelli under the stars,
having comforted some of the prisoners,
he heard a great clanking in one of the corridors.
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Juliusz Slowacki
Waking In The Blue
The night attendant, a B.U. sophomore,
rouses from the mare's-nest of his drowsy head
propped on The Meaning of Meaning.
He catwalks down our corridor.
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Robert Lowell
The night attendant, a B.U. sophomore,
rouses from the mare's-nest of his drowsy head
propped on The Meaning of Meaning.
He catwalks down our corridor.
.....
Robert Lowell
When I'm Killed
When Iâ??m killed, donâ??t think of me
Buried there in Cambrin Wood,
Nor as in Zion think of me
With the Intolerable Good.
.....
Robert Graves
When Iâ??m killed, donâ??t think of me
Buried there in Cambrin Wood,
Nor as in Zion think of me
With the Intolerable Good.
.....
Robert Graves
The Shadow Of God
To Mohács
in the marshlands, still in the pouring rain,
August 29th, 1526, where those summoned
and hastily gathered died in thousands
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Ken Smith
To Mohács
in the marshlands, still in the pouring rain,
August 29th, 1526, where those summoned
and hastily gathered died in thousands
.....
Ken Smith
The Two Dreams
I WILL that if I say a heavy thing
Your tongues forgive me; seeing ye know that spring
Has flecks and fits of pain to keep her sweet,
And walks somewhile with winter-bitten feet.
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Algernon Charles Swinburne
I WILL that if I say a heavy thing
Your tongues forgive me; seeing ye know that spring
Has flecks and fits of pain to keep her sweet,
And walks somewhile with winter-bitten feet.
.....
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Brother Benedict
Brother Benedict rose and left his cell
With the last slow swing of the evening bell.
In his hand he carried his only book,
And he followed the path to the Abbey brook,
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Alfred Austin
Brother Benedict rose and left his cell
With the last slow swing of the evening bell.
In his hand he carried his only book,
And he followed the path to the Abbey brook,
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Alfred Austin
The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part Ii: To Juliet: Xli
THE SAME CONTINUED
We may not meet. I could not for pride's sake
Dissemble further, and I suffer pain,
A palpable distinct and physical ache,
.....
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
THE SAME CONTINUED
We may not meet. I could not for pride's sake
Dissemble further, and I suffer pain,
A palpable distinct and physical ache,
.....
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
The Winds
Those hewers of the clouds, the Winds,-that lair
At the four compass-points,-are out to-night;
I hear their sandals trample on the height,
I hear their voices trumpet through the air:
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Madison Julius Cawein
Those hewers of the clouds, the Winds,-that lair
At the four compass-points,-are out to-night;
I hear their sandals trample on the height,
I hear their voices trumpet through the air:
.....
Madison Julius Cawein
From The Minutes
When, with the force of a ram that discharges its ponderous body
Straight at the rear elevation of the luckless culler of simples,
The foot of Herculean Kilgore-statesman of surname suggestive
Or carnage unspeakable!-lit like a missile prodigious
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Ambrose Bierce
When, with the force of a ram that discharges its ponderous body
Straight at the rear elevation of the luckless culler of simples,
The foot of Herculean Kilgore-statesman of surname suggestive
Or carnage unspeakable!-lit like a missile prodigious
.....
Ambrose Bierce
The River Maiden
Her gown was simple woven wool,
But, in repayment,
Her body sweet made beautiful
The simplest raiment:
.....
Victor James Daley
Her gown was simple woven wool,
But, in repayment,
Her body sweet made beautiful
The simplest raiment:
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Victor James Daley
Can Such Things Be?
Meseemed that while she played, while lightly yet
Her fingers fell, as roses bloom by bloom,
I listened dead within a mighty room
Of some old palace where great casements let
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Madison Julius Cawein
Meseemed that while she played, while lightly yet
Her fingers fell, as roses bloom by bloom,
I listened dead within a mighty room
Of some old palace where great casements let
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Madison Julius Cawein
Tristram's End
I
Tristram lies sick to death;
Dulled is his kingly eye,
Listless his famed right arm: earth--weary breath
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Robert Laurence Binyon
I
Tristram lies sick to death;
Dulled is his kingly eye,
Listless his famed right arm: earth--weary breath
.....
Robert Laurence Binyon
From A School Anthology
1. E. Larionova
E. Larionova. Brunette. A colonel's
and a typist's daughter. Looked
at you like someone studying a clockface.
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Joseph Brodsky
1. E. Larionova
E. Larionova. Brunette. A colonel's
and a typist's daughter. Looked
at you like someone studying a clockface.
.....
Joseph Brodsky
Desire
Soul of the leaping flame;
Heart of the scarlet fire,
Spirit that hath for name
Only the name - Desire!
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Victor James Daley
Soul of the leaping flame;
Heart of the scarlet fire,
Spirit that hath for name
Only the name - Desire!
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Victor James Daley
The Hour-glass
He said we might choose the subject for the lesson
The Persons of the Play
Wise Man.
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William Butler Yeats
He said we might choose the subject for the lesson
The Persons of the Play
Wise Man.
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William Butler Yeats
Near The Wall Of A House
Near the wall of a house painted
to look like stone,
I saw visions of God.
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Yehuda Amichai
Near the wall of a house painted
to look like stone,
I saw visions of God.
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Yehuda Amichai