To A Poet, A Thousand Years Hence
Here is my favourite, by far, of two poems with the same name. The second one follows the first and is, in my opinion, also very good. To A Poet A Thousand Years Hence I who am dead a thousand years, And wrote this sweet archaic song, Send you my words for messengers The way […]
Rondel of Merciless Beauty
Your two great eyes will slay me suddenly; Their beauty shakes me who was once serene; Straight through my heart the wound is quick and keen. Only your word will heal the injury To my hurt heart, while yet the wound is clean – Your two great eyes will slay me suddenly; Their beauty shakes […]
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