SYMBOLIC POEMS

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Love - The Symbolic Soul

Love is a journey, only few dispatch it,
Not all can, the dream in life who loves,
Although millions of promises created.
It's fragile like a narrow glass, easily smart,
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Santosh Kumar

Santosh Kumar
Matins

You want to know how I spend my time?
I walk the front lawn, pretending
to be weeding. You ought to know
I'm never weeding, on my knees, pulling
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Louise Gluck

Louise Gluck
Meditations In Time Of Civil War

I. Ancestral Houses

Surely among a rich man's flowering lawns,
Amid the rustle of his planted hills,
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William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats
The House Of Dust: Part 03: 04: Illicit

Of what she said to me that night-no matter.
The strange thing came next day.
My brain was full of music-something she played me-;
I couldn't remember it all, but phrases of it
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Conrad Aiken

Conrad Aiken
Even When She Walks

Even when she walks she seems to dance!
Her garments writhe and glisten like long snakes
obedient to the rhythm of the wands
by which a fakir wakens them to grace.
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Charles Baudelaire

Charles Baudelaire
Intimations Of The Beautiful

I

The hills are full of prophecies
And ancient voices of the dead;
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Madison Julius Cawein

Madison Julius Cawein
Ecclesiastical Sonnets - Part Iii. - Xxvi - The Marriage Ceremony

The Vested Priest before the Altar stands;
Approach, come gladly, ye prepared, in sight
Of God and chosen friends, your troth to plight
With the symbolic ring, and willing hands
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William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth
The House Of Dust - Part Iii - Complete

I

As evening falls,
And the yellow lights leap one by one
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Conrad Potter Aiken
Six Septets To Honor The Spring Of 1905

Maria Immisch was the springtime.
With feeling and reverence
I snatch her adored name from the underworld.
When I was fifteen in '05, that year
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Franz Werfel
A War March

Ow! Wow! Wow!
(Funeral note sustained by flutes, suggesting a long-bodied,
short-legged, large-headed dog in anguish.)
Ow! Wow!
.....

Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
The Priceless Thing

THOSE are vulgar things we pay for, be they stones for crowns of kings;
While the precious and the peerless are unpriced symbolic things.

Common debts are scored and canceled, weighed and measured out for gold;
.....

John Boyle O'reilly
The Calm

Brothers, have you observed the calm?
Even the leaves of that symbolic palm
That denotes peace, political and otherwise, are scarcely stirred
By the faintest breath of controversy. Not a word
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Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
Lohengrin: Proem

THE alert and valiant faith that could respond,
Upon life's threshold, to the highest call,
Unquestioning of what might lie beyond,â??
Courage afield and courtesy in hall,
.....
Emma Lazarus

Emma Lazarus
The House Of Dust: Part 03: 04: Illicit

Of what she said to me that night—no matter.
The strange thing came next day.
My brain was full of music—something she played me—;
I couldn't remember it all, but phrases of it
.....

Conrad Potter Aiken
Dolores

IS he well blessed who has no eyes to scan
The woeful things that shadow all our life:
The latent brute behind the eyes of man,
The place and power gained and stained by strife,
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John Boyle O'reilly
Midnight-september 19, 1881

DEATH OF PRESIDENT GARFIELD.


ONCE in a lifetime, we may see the veil
.....

John Boyle O'reilly
Two Visions

The curtains of the Night were folded
Over suspended sense;
So that the things I saw were moulded
I know not how nor whence.
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Alfred Austin
Illicit

Of what she said to me that nightâ??no matter.
The strange thing came next day.
My brain was full of musicâ??something she played me;
I couldn't remember it all, but phrases of it
.....

Conrad Potter Aiken
To The Committee Of The Cayley Portrait Fund

O wretched race of men, to space confined!
What honour can ye pay to him, whose mind
To that which lies beyond hath penetrated?
The symbols he bath formed shall sound his praise,
.....

James Clerk Maxwell
Midnight-september 19, 1881

DEATH OF PRESIDENT GARFIELD.


ONCE in a lifetime, we may see the veil
.....

John Boyle O'reilly
A Vision Splendid

Half waking and half dreaming,
While starry lamps hung low
I saw a vision splendid
Upon the darkness glow.
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Victor James Daley
A Voyage To Cythera

My heart was like a bird that fluttered joyously
And glided free among the tackle and the lines!
The vessel rolled along under a cloudless sky
An angel, tipsy, gay, full of the radiant sun.
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Charles Baudelaire

Charles Baudelaire
Our Grandmothers

She lay, skin down in the moist dirt,
the canebrake rustling
with the whispers of leaves, and
loud longing of hounds and
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Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou
Stanzas Suggested In A Steamboat Off Saint Bees' Heads, On The Coast Of Cumberland

If Life were slumber on a bed of down,
Toil unimposed, vicissitude unknown,
Sad were our lot: no hunter of the hare
Exults like him whose javelin from the lair
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William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth
The Artist

In story books, when I was very young,
I knew you first, one of the Fairy Race;
And then it was your picture took its place,
Framed in with love's deep gold, and draped and hung
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Madison Julius Cawein

Madison Julius Cawein
Contrast

Never ever shall the morn deny...
By tick of a clock
In a blink of an eye...
In brisk of a whisker
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Mr. Mohashoi

Mr. Mohashoi
Dedication

Lord, I have seen at harvest festival
In a white lamp-lit fishing-village church,
How the poor folk, lacking fine decorations,
Offer the first-fruits of their various toils:
.....

John Collings Squire, Sir
The Old Scottish Minister

A man he was of Scottish race,
And ancient Scottish name;
Of common mould, but lofty mien,
That dignified his frame.
.....

W. M. Mackeracher
Wood-words

I.

The spirits of the forest,
That to the winds give voice -
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Madison Julius Cawein

Madison Julius Cawein
The Immaculate Conception

Fell the snow on the festival's vigil
And surpliced the city in white;
I wonder who wove the pure flakelets?
Ask the Virgin, or God, or the night.
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Abram Joseph Ryan
Behram And Eddetma

Against each prince now she had held her own,
An easy victor for the seven years
O'er kings and sons of kings; Eddetma, she
Who, when much sought in marriage, hating men,
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Madison Julius Cawein

Madison Julius Cawein
An Idyl Of The Period. In Two Parts

PART ONE.


"Come right in. How are you, Fred?
.....

George Augustus Baker, Jr.
La Petite Mort

Straight to the cares of sweetest pleasure,
souls flying from hence to dopamine treasure.

Honey fragrance silver sensation well,
.....
Robert Rittel

Robert Rittel
The Illuminati

From the book of revelation the warning is clear,
people will be deceived in worshipping the master of fear.
Predicted in scripture to lead most into loosing their salvation,
when false Gods are the symbol of appreciation.
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Robert Rittel

Robert Rittel
Rememberance 1

It's a year now
I never did wish for anything
But an insurmountable desire to see
And embrace you again
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Raymond Ozymandias

Raymond Ozymandias