CLASSIC POETRY

Phenomenal woman

                    Phenomenal woman   Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I’m not cute or built to suit a fashion model’s size But when I start to tell them, They think I’m telling lies. I say, It’s in the reach of my arms The span of my hips, The stride of my step, The curl of my lips. I’m a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That’s...Read More »

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Written in March

              Written in March   The cock is crowing, The stream is flowing, The small birds twitter, The lake doth glitter The green field sleeps in the sun; The oldest and youngest Are at work with the strongest; The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising; There are forty feeding like one! Like an army defeated The snow hath retreated, And now doth fare ill On...Read More »

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When I Was One-and-Twenty

                                  When I Was One-and-Twenty I heard a wise man say, “Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.” But I was one-and-twenty, No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, “The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; ’Tis...Read More »

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Vivat! Crescat! Floreat!

                Happy birthday, Mihai Eminescu! (15.01.1850-15.06.1889) GLOSSA / Gloss Vreme trece, vreme vine, Toate-s vechi si noua toate, Ce e rau si ce e bine Tu te-ntreaba si socoate; Nu spera si nu ai teama, Ce e val ca valul trece; De te-ndeamna, de te cheama, Tu ramai la toate rece. Multe trec pe dinainte, In auz ne suna multe, Cine tine toate...Read More »

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Christmas Bells

  Christmas Bells I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, good-will to men! And thought how, as the day had come, The belfries of all Christendom Had rolled along The unbroken song Of peace on earth, good-will to men! Till ringing, singing on its way, The world...Read More »

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Symptom Recital

                  Symptom recital I do not like my state of mind; I’m bitter, querulous, unkind. I hate my legs, I hate my hands, I do not yearn for lovelier lands. I dread the dawn’s recurrent light; I hate to go to bed at night. I snoot at simple, earnest folk. I cannot take the gentlest joke. I find no peace...Read More »

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Alone

                      Alone From childhood’s hour I have not been As others were—I have not seen As others saw—I could not bring My passions from a common spring— From the same source I have not taken My sorrow—I could not awaken My heart to joy at the same tone— And all I lov’d—I lov’d alone— Then—in my childhood—in the dawn Of a...Read More »

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i carry your heart with me

                      i carry your heart with me i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)i am never without it (anywhere i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling) i fear no fate (for you are my fate,my sweet) i want no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true) and...Read More »

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Old Irish Blessing

                            Old Irish Blessing! Cheers! ...Read More »

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Try to remember

                  Try to remember Try to remember the kind of September When life was slow and oh, so mellow Try to remember the kind of September When grass was green and grain was yellow Try to remember the kind of September When you were a tender and callow fellow Try to remember and if you remember Then follow, follow. Try...Read More »

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