I own a solace shut within my heart,
A garden full of many a quaint delight
And warm with drowsy, poppied sunshine; bright,
Flaming with lilies out of whose cups dart
Shining things
With powdered wings.

Here terrace sinks to terrace, arbors close
The ends of dreaming paths; a wanton wind
Jostles the half-ripe pears, and then, unkind,
Tumbles a-slumber in a pillar rose,
With content
Grown... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (smzang) http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/24734 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:13:48 GMT http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/24692/t/The-Lady-Godiva.html Walter de la Mare

The Lady Godiva Godolphin, of a blood by the centuries blued,
Flowing back, I believe,
to Adam and Eve,
had a rooted disdain of the nood .

'Sheep are clad,' she would cry, in their woollies ; the buffalo's hirsute,
though rude ;
Apart from their tails,
Even flounders have scales ;
Not a shrimp in the ocean swims nood.

'The ruff has a ruff, though a ruff's not... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (bongler) http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/24692 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:10:44 GMT http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/24633/t/As-I-walked-out-one-evening-.html
As I walked out one evening,
walking down in Bristol Street,
the crowds upon the pavement
were fields of harvest wheat.

And down by the brimming river
I heard a lover sing
Under the arch of the railway ;
'O love has no ending.

'I'll love you dear, I'll love you
'Til China and Africa meet
and the river jumps the mountain
and the salmon swim in the street.

... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (bongler) http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/24633 Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:44:55 GMT http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/24479/t/The-Lost-Chord.html feeds@yuku.com (j g dittier) http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/24479 Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:53:16 GMT http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/24238/t/Addition-by-Cavafy.html Addition

http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/24238 Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:33:13 GMT http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/24237/t/Supplication-by-Cavafy.html Supplication

http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/24237 Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:32:19 GMT http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/24217/t/Last-Night-as-I-Was-Sleeping-by-Antonio-Machado.html I dreamt -- marvelous error!-
that a spring was breaking
out in my heart.
I said: Along which secret aqueduct,
Oh water, are you coming to me,
water of a new life
that I have never drunk?

Last night, as I was sleeping,
I dreamt -- marvelous error!-
that I had a beehive
here inside my heart.
And the golden bees
were making white combs
and sweet honey
from my old failures.
... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (smzang) http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/24217 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:17:51 GMT http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/24216/t/Listen-by-Vladimir-Mayakovsky.html Listen!

Listen!
if the stars are lit,
then someone needs it, of course?
then someone wants them there,
calling those droplets of spittle
pearls?

And wheezing,
in the blizzards of midday dust,
he rushes to God,
fearing he's out of time,
and sobbing,
he kisses God's sinewy hands,
tells Him that it's important,
pleads to Him that the star... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (smzang) http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/24216 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 07:41:21 GMT http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/24215/t/To-B-Pasternak-by-Marina-Tsvetaeva.html To B. Pasternak

Dis-tances: miles, versts…
They dis-pelled us until we dis-persed,
So we would act as we were told
In two corners of the world.

Dis-tances: versts, spaces…
They dislocated us, they displaced us,
They disjoined us, crucified on display,
And observed there, to their dismay,

How our tendons joined, our ideas broadened…
Without discord, - just in disorder,
... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (smzang) http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/24215 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 07:35:28 GMT http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/24206/t/-To-Brooklyn-Bridge-by-Hart-Crane.html

How many dawns, chill from his rippling rest
The seagull's wings shall dip and pivot him,
Shedding white rings of tumult, building high
Over the chained bay waters Liberty--

Then, with inviolate curve, forsake our eyes
As apparitional as sails that cross
Some page of figures to be filed away;
--Till elevators drop us from our day . . .

I think of cinemas, panoramic sleights
With multitudes bent toward some flashing scene
Never disclosed, but hastened to again,... ]]>

			
			feeds@yuku.com (msscheffer)
			http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/24206
			Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:25:16 GMT
			

		
		
			
			http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/24205/t/-Lines-Written-In-The-Bay-Of-Lerici-by-Percy-Bysshe-Shelley.html
			

She left me at the silent time
When the moon had ceased to climb
The azure path of Heaven's steep,
And like an albatross asleep,
Balanced on her wings of light,             
Hovered in the purple night,
Ere she sought her ocean nest
In the chambers of the West.
She left me, and I stayed alone
Thinking over every tone                  
Which, though silent to the ear,
The enchanted heart could hear,
Like notes which die when born, but still
Haunt the echoes of the hill;
And feeling... ]]>

			
			feeds@yuku.com (msscheffer)
			http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/24205
			Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:20:15 GMT
			

		
		
			
			http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/24176/t/A-Prayer-for-my-Daughter-William-Butler-Yeats.html
			
Under this cradle-hood and coverlid


My child sleeps on. There is no obstacle


But Gregory's wood and one bare hill


Whereby the haystack- and roof-levelling wind,


Bred on the Atlantic, can be stayed;


And for an hour I have walked and prayed


Because of the great gloom that is in my mind.




I have walked and prayed for this young child an hour


And heard the sea-wind scream upon the tower,


And... ]]>

			
			feeds@yuku.com (barry)
			http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/24176
			Fri, 18 Sep 2009 03:51:14 GMT
			

		
		
			
			http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/24171/t/The-Love-Song-of-J-Alfred-Prufrock-T-S-Eliot.html
			
  
    
      S'io credesse che mia risposta fosse
    

    
      


      A persona che mai tornasse al mondo,
    

    
      


      Questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse.
    

    
      


      Ma perciocche giammai di questo fondo
    

    
      


      Non torno... ]]>

			
			feeds@yuku.com (barry)
			http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/24171
			Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:09:46 GMT
			

		
		
			
			http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/24117/t/second-comong-wiiliam-butler-yeats.html
			
    The falcon cannot hear the falconer;


    Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;


    Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,


    The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere


    The ceremony of innocence is drowned;


    The best lack all conviction, while the worst


    Are full of passionate intensity.

    Surely some revelation is at hand;


    Surely the Second Coming is at hand.


    The Second... ]]>

			
			feeds@yuku.com (barry)
			http://thepeacefulpub.yuku.com/topic/24117
			Sun, 13 Sep 2009 05:38:57 GMT