DISSIPATE POEMS

Time

Oblivion, what is oblivion?
It's a denial, a lack, a limitation?
Or maybe is the time punishment
To cross over us painless.
.....

Cristina Teodor

Frog Autumn

Summer grows old, cold-blooded mother.
The insects are scant, skinny.
In these palustral homes we only
Croak and wither.
.....

Sylvia Plath

Fragments On Nature And Life - Transition

See yonder leafless trees against the sky,
How they diffuse themselves into the air,
And, ever subdividing, separate
Limbs into branches, branches into twigs.
.....

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ballad Of Human Life

WHEN we were girl and boy together,
We tossâ??d about the flowers
And wreathâ??d the blushing hours
Into a posy green and sweet.
.....

Thomas Lovell Beddoes

Love And Honor

Sed neque Medorum silvae, ditissima terra
Nec pulcher Ganges, atque auro turbidus Haemus,
Laudibus Angligenum certent; non Bactra, nec Indi,
Totaque thuriferis Panchaia pinguis arenis.
.....

William Shenstone

Pauline - A Fragment Of A Confession

Pauline, mine own, bend o'er me thy soft breast
Shall pant to mine bend o'er me thy sweet eyes,
And loosened hair, and breathing lips, arms
Drawing me to thee these build up a screen
.....

Robert Browning

Night Air

“If God is Art, then what do we make
of Jasper Johns?” One never knows
what sort of question a patient will pose,

.....

C. Dale Young

To You

Whoever you are, I fear you are walking the walks of dreams,
I fear these supposed realities are to melt from under your feet and hands;
Even now, your features, joys, speech, house, trade, manners, troubles, follies,
costume, crimes, dissipate away from you,
.....

Walt Whitman

Resolve

Build on resolve, and not upon regret,
The structure of thy future. Do not grope
Among the shadows of old sins, but let
Thine own soulâ??s light shine on the path of hope
.....

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The Congregation

The ghost of night's long hours depart
In congregation dreary,
And leave my sorrow-trampled heart
Intolerably weary.
.....

Gamaliel Bradford

Ecclesiastical Sonnets - Part Iii. - Xix - The Liturgy

Yes, if the intensities of hope and fear
Attract us still, and passionate exercise
Of lofty thoughts, the way before us lies
Distinct with signs, through which in set career,
.....

William Wordsworth

Two Lyrics From Kilroy's Carnival: A Masque

I Aria

“-Kiss me there where pride is glittering
Kiss me where I am ripened and round fruit
.....

Delmore Schwartz

Sunday Morning

1
Complacencies of the peignoir, and late
Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair,
And the green freedom of a cockatoo
.....

Wallace Stevens

Rural Life In England - Prose

Oh! friendly to the best pursuits of man,
Friendly to thought, to virtue and to peace,
Domestic life in rural pleasures past!
- COWPER.
.....

Washington Irving

Christmas - Prose

But is old, old, good old Christmas gone? Nothing but the hair of his good, gray old head and beard left? Well, I will have that, seeing I cannot have more of him.
- HUE AND CRY AFTER CHRISTMAS.


.....

Washington Irving

The Book And The Ring

Here were the end, had anything an end:
Thus, lit and launched, up and up roared and soared
A rocket, till the key o' the vault was reached,
And wide heaven held, a breathless minute-space,
.....

Robert Browning

The Quids

The little quids, the million quids,
The everywhere, everything, always quids,
The atoms of the Monoton-
Each turned three essences where it stood
.....

Laura (riding) Jackson

Supplicating

One morn I looked across the way,
And saw you fling your window wide
To welcome in the breath of May
In breezes from the mountain-side,
.....

Hattie Howard

Hopeful Hawkins

Hawkins wasn't in the swim at all in Dingo Flat,
And to bait him was our chiefest form of bliss;
But, in justice, be it said that he had a business head.
(That's why I'm standing here and telling this.)
.....

Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis

Fame.

Oh ye! who all life's energies combine
The fadeless laurel round your brows to twine,
Pause but one moment in your brief career,
Nor seek for glory in a mortal sphere.
.....

Susanna Moodie

Scented Herbage Of My Breast

SCENTED herbage of my breast,
Leaves from you I yield, I write, to be perused best afterwards,
Tomb-leaves, body-leaves, growing up above me, above death,
Perennial roots, tall leaves--O the winter shall not freeze you,
.....

Walt Whitman

Prayer Before Birth

I am not yet born; O hear me.
Let not the bloodsucking bat or the rat or the stoat or the
club-footed ghoul come near me.

.....

Louis Macneice

Mr. Edwards And The Spider

I saw the spiders marching through the air,
Swimming from tree to tree that mildewed day
In latter August when the hay
Came creaking to the barn. But where
.....

Robert Lowell

In Ampezzo

Only once more and not again--the larches
Shake to the wind their echo, "Not again,"--
We see, below the sky that over-arches
Heavy and blue, the plain
.....

Trumbull Stickney

Two Lyrics From Kilroy's Carnival: A Masque

I Aria

"--Kiss me there where pride is glittering
Kiss me where I am ripened and round fruit
.....

Delmore Schwartz

Lines To Fanny

What can I do to drive away
Remembrance from my eyes? for they have seen,
Aye, an hour ago, my brilliant Queen!
Touch has a memory. O say, love, say,
.....

John Keats

The Intellectual

What should the wars do with these jigging fools?


The man behind the book may not be man,
.....

Karl Shapiro

Belphegor Addressed To Miss De Chammelay

YOUR name with ev'ry pleasure here I place,
The last effusions of my muse to grace.
O charming Phillis! may the same extend
Through time's dark night: our praise together blend;
.....

Jean De La Fontaine

Obadiah Bell

I am fit and I am well (so said Obadiah Bell.)
I take life as it come from day to day,
I have never been a scorner
Of the 'trouble round the corner,'
.....

Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis

To The Name Above Every Name, The Name Of Jesus

I sing the Name which None can say
But touchâ??t with An interiour Ray:
The Name of our New Peace; our Good:
Our Blisse: and Supernaturall Blood:
.....

Richard Crashaw

Ode: In A Restaurant

In this dense hall of green and gold,
Mirrors and lights and steam, there sit
Two hundred munching men;
While several score of others flit
.....

John Collings Squire, Sir

He Shall Wipe Away Every Tear

Every tear that dims the eye,
Or bedews the careworn cheek,
Will our God, who reigns on high,
With a hand so kind and meek,
.....

Joseph Horatio Chant

The Gilded Roll

Nosing around in an old box - packed away, and lost to memory for
years - an hour ago I found a musty package of gilt paper, or rather, a
roll it was, with the green-tarnished gold of the old sheet for the
outer wrapper. I picked it up mechanically to toss it into some
.....

James Whitcomb Riley

Do Not Worry

Do not worry over trifles, though
to you they may seem great,
All your fretting will not help you,
or your troubles dissipate.
.....

Alan L. Strang

School

If there is a vile, pernicious,
Wicked and degraded rule,
Tending to debase the vicious,
And corrupt the harmless fool;
.....

James Kenneth Stephen

Translations. - Hymns To The Night. (from Novalis.)

I.

Before all the wondrous shows of the widespread space around him, what living, sentient thing loves not the all-joyous light, with its colours, its rays and undulations, its gentle omnipresence in the form of the wakening Day? The giant world of the unresting constellations inhales it as the innermost soul of life, and floats dancing in its azure flood; the sparkling, ever-tranquil stone, the thoughtful, imbibing plant, and the wild, burning, multiform beast-world inhales it; but more than all, the lordly stranger with the meaning eyes, the swaying walk, and the sweetly closed, melodious lips. Like a king over earthly nature, it rouses every force to countless transformations, binds and unbinds innumerable alliances, hangs its heavenly form around every earthly substance. Its presence alone reveals the marvellous splendour of the kingdoms of the world.

.....

George Macdonald

Epipsychidion. Verses Addressed To The Noble And Unfortunate Lady, Emilia V -

Sweet Spirit! Sister of that orphan one,
Whose empire is the name thou weepest on,
In my heart's temple I suspend to thee
These votive wreaths of withered memory.
.....

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Galileo

I


(Celeste, in the Convent at Arcetri, writes to her old lover at Rome.)
.....

Alfred Noyes

The Abyss Of Drug Addiction

In an errant venture in curiosity -
lured from savvy of cooler judgment,  
he oversteps the bounds of reality 
into a state of altered awareness.
.....

Dike Chinedu

I Survived

The past is past
And Gone with the Wind
Memories forgotten might linger
Memories treasured are blurred
.....

Riry

Annus Memorabilis, 1789. Written In Commemoration Of His Majesty's Happy Recovery

I ransack'd for a theme of song,
Much ancient chronicle, and long;
I read of bright embattled fields,
Of trophied helmets, spears, and shields,
.....

William Cowper

To My Absent Daughter

Georgie, come home!--Life's tendrils cling about thee,
Where'er thou art, by wayward fancy led.
We miss thee, love!--Home is not home without thee--
The light and glory of the house have fled:
.....

George Pope Morris

Ode, Written On The Night Of The Illuminations For Lord Howe's Victory On 1st June, 1793

Whence the shouts of public joy,
Whence the galaxies of light,
That strike the deafen'd ear?
That charm the dazzled sight?
.....

Thomas Oldham

Ode, To Hope

Thou Cherub fair! in whose blue, sparkling eye
New joys, anticipated, ever play;
Celestial Hope! with whose all-potent sway
The moral elements of life comply;
.....

Thomas Oldham

Seascape

Over that morn hung heaviness, until,
Near sunless noon, we heard the ship's bell beating
A melancholy staccato on dead metal;
Saw the bare-footed watch come running aft;
.....

Francis Brett Young

Close Your Eyes And Breathe

Close your eyes and breathe, my dear,
Let go of worry, release the fear.
Inhale the tranquility, let it revive,
Exhale the tensions to keep you alive.
.....

Magod Scroef