Now that the poem a day challenge for April is mercifully past, it's time to change out the Off the Shelf page. I've been wanting to do John Donne for a long time, and am too tired to go hunting for new and exciting poems, so I'm posting an old favorite, in my opinion, perhaps one of the three or four best love poems ever written, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning.
You'll find it here on the Off the Shelf page.
Meanwhile, last month's Emily Dickinson selection is below for a final read:
Meanwhile, last month's Emily Dickinson selection is below for a final read:
Three Short Poems by Emily Dickinson
To Make A Prairie
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,—
One clover, and a bee,
And revery.
The revery alone will do
If bees are few.
One clover, and a bee,
And revery.
The revery alone will do
If bees are few.
Wild Nights – Wild Nights!
Were I with thee
Wild Nights should be
Our luxury!
Futile – the winds –
To a heart in port –
Done with the compass –
Done with the chart!
To a heart in port –
Done with the compass –
Done with the chart!
Rowing in Eden –
Ah, the sea!
Might I moor – Tonight –
In thee!
Ah, the sea!
Might I moor – Tonight –
In thee!
The Heart Asks Pleasure First
The Heart asks pleasure first,
And then, excuse from pain;
And then, those little anodynes
That deaden suffering;
And then, to go to sleep;
And then, if it should be
The will of its Inquisitor,
The liberty to die.
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