diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst index 41be7ec..4d41e23 100644 --- a/README.rst +++ b/README.rst @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ poems ----- -All of the poems in here are good, or interesting. There are currently 8,425 poems by 550 poets. \ No newline at end of file +All of the poems in here are good, or interesting. There are currently 8,440 poems by 552 poets. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/poems/data/poems.json b/poems/data/poems.json index a5fd7c2..7145f9a 100644 --- a/poems/data/poems.json +++ b/poems/data/poems.json @@ -8,9 +8,7 @@ "language": null, "link": null, "favorite": true, - "tags": [ - "" - ], + "tags": [], "birth": null, "death": null, "flag": null, @@ -194,13 +192,14 @@ "metadata": { "name": "Georgy Adamovich", "gender": "male", + "college": null, + "movement": null, "religion": null, "nationality": "russian", "language": "russian", "link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgy_Adamovich", "favorite": true, "tags": [ - "", "russian" ], "birth": { @@ -208,6 +207,11 @@ "year": 1892, "month": "april", "day": 19 + }, + "place": { + "city": "Moscow", + "state": null, + "country": "Russia" } }, "death": { @@ -215,6 +219,11 @@ "year": 1972, "month": "february", "day": 21 + }, + "place": { + "city": "Nice", + "state": null, + "country": "France" } }, "flag": "🇷🇺", @@ -299,13 +308,14 @@ "metadata": { "name": "James Agee", "gender": "male", + "college": "harvard", + "movement": null, "religion": null, "nationality": "american", "language": "english", "link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Agee", "favorite": true, "tags": [ - "", "american" ], "birth": { @@ -571,23 +581,38 @@ "metadata": { "name": "Conrad Aiken", "gender": "male", + "college": "harvard", + "movement": null, "religion": null, "nationality": "american", "language": "english", "link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad_Aiken", "favorite": true, "tags": [ - "", "american" ], "birth": { "date": { - "year": 1889 + "year": 1889, + "month": "august", + "day": 5 + }, + "place": { + "city": "Savannah", + "state": "Georgia", + "country": "USA" } }, "death": { "date": { - "year": 1973 + "year": 1973, + "month": "august", + "day": 17 + }, + "place": { + "city": "Savannah", + "state": "Georgia", + "country": "USA" } }, "flag": "🇺🇸", @@ -940,23 +965,38 @@ "metadata": { "name": "Bella Akhmadulina", "gender": "female", + "college": null, + "movement": null, "religion": null, "nationality": "russian", "language": "russian", "link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bella_Akhmadulina", "favorite": true, "tags": [ - "", "russian" ], "birth": { "date": { - "year": 1937 + "year": 1937, + "month": "april", + "day": 10 + }, + "place": { + "city": "Moscow", + "state": null, + "country": "Russia" } }, "death": { "date": { - "year": 2010 + "year": 2010, + "month": "november", + "day": 29 + }, + "place": { + "city": "Peredelkino", + "state": null, + "country": "Russia" } }, "flag": "🇷🇺", @@ -1037,13 +1077,14 @@ "metadata": { "name": "Anna Akhmatova", "gender": "female", + "college": null, + "movement": null, "religion": null, "nationality": "russian", "language": "russian", "link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Akhmatova", "favorite": true, "tags": [ - "", "russian" ], "birth": { @@ -1051,6 +1092,11 @@ "year": 1889, "month": "june", "day": 23 + }, + "place": { + "city": "Odessa", + "state": null, + "country": "Ukraine" } }, "death": { @@ -1058,6 +1104,11 @@ "year": 1966, "month": "march", "day": 5 + }, + "place": { + "city": "Moscow", + "state": null, + "country": "Russia" } }, "flag": "🇷🇺", @@ -2663,23 +2714,39 @@ "metadata": { "name": "William Alabaster", "gender": "male", + "college": null, + "movement": null, "religion": null, "nationality": "english", "language": "english", "link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Alabaster", "favorite": true, "tags": [ - "", "english" ], "birth": { "date": { - "year": 1567 + "year": 1567, + "month": "february", + "day": 27 + }, + "place": { + "city": "Hadleigh", + "state": "Suffolk", + "country": "England" } }, "death": { "date": { - "year": 1640 + "year": 1640, + "month": "april", + "day": 28, + "circa": true + }, + "place": { + "city": "Little Shelford", + "state": "Cambridgeshire", + "country": "England" } }, "flag": "🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿", @@ -2690,6 +2757,9 @@ "title": "“A Divine Sonnet”", "body": "Jesu, thy love within me is so main,\nAnd my poor heart so narrow of content,\nThat with thy love my heart wellnigh is rent,\nAnd yet I love to bear such loving pain.\nO take thy Cross and nails and therewith strain\nMy heart’s desire unto his full extent,\nThat thy dear love may not therein be pent,\nBut thoughts may have free scope thy love to explain.\nO now my heart more paineth than before,\nBecause it can receive and hath no more.\nO fill this emptiness or else I die.\nNow stretch my heart again and now supply;\nNow I want space, now grace. To end this smart,\nSince my heart holds not thee, hold thou my heart.", "metadata": { + "time": { + "year": 1628 + }, "context": { "liturgy": "lent" }, @@ -2697,75 +2767,88 @@ } }, "eternity-the-womb-of-things-created": { - "title": "“Eternity, the Womb of Things Created”", + "title": "“Eternity, the womb of things created …”", "body": "Eternity, the womb of things created,\nThe endless bottom of duration,\nWhose half was always past, yet unbegun,\nAnd half behind still coming unabated;\nWhose thread conjoinèd, both unseparated,\nIs time, which dated is by motion;\nEternity, whose real thoughts are one\nWith God, that is everness actuated:\nO tie my soul unto this endless clew,\nThat I may overfathom fate and time\nIn all my actions which I do pursue,\nAnd bound my thoughts in that unbounded clime:\nFor soul and thoughts, designs and acts, are evil,\nThat under compass of this life do level.", "metadata": { + "time": { + "year": 1628 + }, "language": "english" } }, - "the-first-beginning-of-creation": { - "title": "“The First Beginning of Creation”", - "body": "The first beginning of creation\nWas God; the end thereof in man was set;\nEnd and beginning were together met;\nSo God and man became one person.\nThus nature’s circle as a ring doth run,\nChrist is the pale within whose circulet\nThe seal of the divinity is knit,\nWhich seal doth stand the Godhead’s ring upon.\nSo stand two rings upon one diamond;\nThe knot of both and either, where are met\nFinite and infinite, more and one\nAlpha and Omega in that fair tablet\nWherein is drawn the angels’ alphabet,\nJesus. If he were learnt, need more be known?", - "metadata": { - "language": "english" - } - }, - "jesus-is-risen-from-the-infernal-mire": { - "title": "“Jesus is Risen from the Infernal Mire”", + "jesus-is-risen-from-the-infernal-mire-e": { + "title": "“Jesus is risen from the infernal mire …e”", "body": "Jesus is risen from the infernal mire:\nBut who art thou that say’st Jesus arose?\nSuch holy words are only fit for those\nWhose souls with Christ above the heavens aspire.\nBut if thou hast not raisèd thy desire\nFrom earth to heaven, but in the world dost close\nThy love which unto heaven thou shouldst dispose,\nSay not that Christ is yet ascended higher,\nBut yet within thy heart he lieth dead,\nAnd by the devil is impoisonèd.\nRejoice not then in vain of his ascent;\nFor as his glorious rise doth much augment\nAll good men’s hopes, so unto those that tread\nFalse paths, it is a dreadful argument.", "metadata": { + "time": { + "year": 1628 + }, "context": { "holiday": "ascension" }, "language": "english" } }, - "lord-i-have-left-all-myself-behind": { - "title": "“Lord, I Have Left All Myself Behind”", + "lord-i-have-left-all-and-myself-behind": { + "title": "“Lord, I have left all and myself behind”", "body": "Lord, I have left all and myself behind:\nMy state, my hopes, my strength, and present ease,\nMy unprovokèd studies’ sweet disease,\nAnd touch of nature and engrafted kind,\nWhose cleaving twist doth distant tempers bind;\nAnd gentle sense of kindness that doth praise\nThe earnest judgments, others’ wills to please;\nAll and myself I leave, thy love to find.\nO strike my heart with lightning from above,\nThat from one wound both fire and blood may spring;\nFire to transelement my soul to love,\nAnd blood as oil to keep the fire burning;\nThat fire may draw forth blood, blood extend fire,\nDesire possession, possession desire.", "metadata": { + "time": { + "year": 1628 + }, "language": "english" } }, "my-friends-whose-kindness-doth-their-judgments-blind": { - "title": "“My Friends Whose Kindness Doth Their Judgments Blind”", + "title": "“My friends, whose kindness doth their judgments blind …”", "body": "My friends, whose kindness doth their judgments blind,\nKnow you, say they, the dangers where you run,\nWhich zeal hides from you, but compassion\nTells us? You feel the blow, the smart we find.\nI know it well, and as I call to mind,\nThis is the bill: dearness, affection,\nFriends, fortune, pleasure, fame, hope, life undone,\nWant, prison, torment, death, shame--what behind?\nIs then my sense transel’mented to steel,\nThat neither this, nor that, nor all, can feel,\nNor can it bend my mind, which theirs doth break?\nNot so, nor so; for I am not insensate,\nBut feel a double grief that for Christ’s sake\nI have no more to spend, nor have spent that.", "metadata": { + "time": { + "year": 1628 + }, "language": "english" } }, "o-wretched-man-the-knot-of-contraries": { - "title": "“O Wretched Man, the Knot of Contraries”", + "title": "“O wretched man, the knot of contraries …”", "body": "O wretched man, the knot of contraries,\nIn whom both heaven and earth doth move and rest,\nHeaven of my mind, which with Christ’s love is blest,\nDeath of my heart, which in dull languor lies!\nYet doth my moving will still circulize\nMy heaven about my earth with thoughts’ unrest,\nWhere reason as a sun from east to west\nDarteth his shining beams to melt this ice.\nAnd now with fear it southward doth descend,\nNow between both is equinoctial,\nAnd now to joys it higher doth ascend,\nAnd yet continues my sea glacial.\nWhat shall I do, but pray to Christ the Son?\nIn earth as heaven, Lord, let thy will be done.", "metadata": { + "time": { + "year": 1628 + }, "language": "english" } }, "over-the-brook-of-cedron-christ-is-gone": { - "title": "“Over the Brook of Cedron Christ is Gone”", + "title": "“Over the brook of Cedron Christ is gone …”", "body": "Over the brook of Cedron Christ is gone,\nTo entertain the combat with his death,\nWhere David fled beforetime void of breath\nTo scape the treacheries of Absalon.\nGo, let us follow him in passion,\nOver this brook, this world that walloweth,\nA stream of cares that drown our thoughts beneath,\nAnd wash away all resolution.\nBeyond the world he must be passèd clear,\nThat in the world for Christ will troubles bear:\nLeave we, O leave we then this miry flood,\nFriends, pleasures, and unfaithful good.\nNow we are up, now down, but cannot stand;\nWe sink, we reel; Jesu, stretch forth thy hand.", "metadata": { - "language": "english" - } - }, - "this-earth-which-in-delicious-paradise": { - "title": "“This Earth, Which in Delicious Paradise”", - "body": "The earth, which in delicious paradise\nDid bud forth man like cedars stately tall,\nFrom barren womb accursèd by the fall\nDoth thrust forth man as thorns in arm engravèd wise,\nDarting the points of sin against the skies.\nWith those thorns plaited was Christ’s coronal,\nWhich crowned him then with grief, but after all\nIn heaven shall crown him, crown themselves with glory.\nFor with the purple tincture of his blood,\nWhich out the furrows of his brows did rain,\nHe hath transformed us thorns from baser wood\nTo raise our nature and odórant strain,\nThat we, who with our thorny sins did wound him,\nHereafter should with roseal virtues crown him.", - "metadata": { + "time": { + "year": 1628 + }, "language": "english" } }, "though-all-forsake-thee-lord-yet-i-will-die": { - "title": "“Though All Forsake Thee, Lord, yet I Will Die”", + "title": "“Though all forsake thee, Lord, yet I will die …”", "body": "Though all forsake thee, Lord, yet I will die;\nFor I have chainèd so my will to thine\nThat I have no will left my will to untwine,\nBut will abide with thee most willingly.\nThough all forsake thee, Lord, yet cannot I;\nFor love hath wrought in me thy form divine\nThat thou art more my heart than heart is mine:\nHow can I then from myself, thyself, fly?\nThus thought Saint Peter, and thus thinking, fell;\nAnd by his fall did warn us not to swell.\nYet still in love I say I would not fall,\nAnd say in hope, I trust I never shall;\nBut cannot say in faith what might I do\nTo learn to say it, by hearing Christ say so.", "metadata": { + "time": { + "year": 1628 + }, "language": "english" } }, "up-to-mount-olivet-my-soul-ascend": { - "title": "“Up to Mount Olivet My Soul Ascend”", + "title": "“Up to Mount Olivet my soul ascend …”", "body": "Up to Mount Olivet my soul ascend\nThe mount spiritual, and there supply\nThy fainting lamp with oil of charity\nTo make the light of faith the more extend.\nGo by this tract which thither right doth tend,\nWhich Christ did first beat forth to walk thereby,\nAnd sixteen ages of posterity\nHave gone it over since from end to end.\nBut strike not down to any new-found balk,\nWhich hunters have begun of late to chalk:\nFor whether ’twere the glow-worm faith went out,\nOr want of love did pine them in the way,\nOr else the cruel devils rob or slay,\nNo news comes back of one of all that rout.", "metadata": { + "time": { + "year": 1628 + }, + "context": { + "holiday": "ascension" + }, "language": "english" } }, @@ -2773,6 +2856,29 @@ "title": "“Upon the Motions of the Fiend”", "body": "With heat and cold I feel the spiteful fiend\nTo work one mischief by two contraries,\nWith lust he doth me scorch, with languor freeze,\nBut lust and languor both one Christ offend.\nLet contraries with contraries contend,\nLet fear of blame and love of Christ arise,\nHot love of Christ to melt in tears mine eyes,\nCold fear of just reproach my shame to extend,\nThat shame with heat may cool my looser thought,\nAnd tears with cold heat my heart’s sluggish deep.\nO happy I if that such grace were wrought!\nTill then, shame blush because tears cannot weep,\nAnd tears weep you because shame cannot blush,\nTill shame from tears, and tears from shame do flush.", "metadata": { + "time": { + "year": 1628 + }, + "language": "english" + } + }, + "the-earth-which-in-delicious-paradise": { + "title": "“The earth, which in delicious paradise …”", + "body": "The earth, which in delicious paradise\nDid bud forth man like cedars stately tall,\nFrom barren womb accursèd by the fall\nDoth thrust forth man as thorns in arm engravèd wise,\nDarting the points of sin against the skies.\nWith those thorns plaited was Christ’s coronal,\nWhich crowned him then with grief, but after all\nIn heaven shall crown him, crown themselves with glory.\nFor with the purple tincture of his blood,\nWhich out the furrows of his brows did rain,\nHe hath transformed us thorns from baser wood\nTo raise our nature and odórant strain,\nThat we, who with our thorny sins did wound him,\nHereafter should with roseal virtues crown him.", + "metadata": { + "time": { + "year": 1628 + }, + "language": "english" + } + }, + "the-first-beginning-of-creation": { + "title": "“The first beginning of creation …”", + "body": "The first beginning of creation\nWas God; the end thereof in man was set;\nEnd and beginning were together met;\nSo God and man became one person.\nThus nature’s circle as a ring doth run,\nChrist is the pale within whose circulet\nThe seal of the divinity is knit,\nWhich seal doth stand the Godhead’s ring upon.\nSo stand two rings upon one diamond;\nThe knot of both and either, where are met\nFinite and infinite, more and one\nAlpha and Omega in that fair tablet\nWherein is drawn the angels’ alphabet,\nJesus. If he were learnt, need more be known?", + "metadata": { + "time": { + "year": 1628 + }, "language": "english" } } @@ -2782,23 +2888,38 @@ "metadata": { "name": "Louisa May Alcott", "gender": "female", + "college": null, + "movement": null, "religion": null, "nationality": "american", "language": "english", "link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisa_May_Alcott", "favorite": true, "tags": [ - "", "american" ], "birth": { "date": { - "year": 1832 + "year": 1832, + "month": "november", + "day": 29 + }, + "place": { + "city": "Germantown", + "state": "Pennsylvania", + "country": "USA" } }, "death": { "date": { - "year": 1888 + "year": 1888, + "month": "march", + "day": 6 + }, + "place": { + "city": "Boston", + "state": "Massachusetts", + "country": "USA" } }, "flag": "🇺🇸", @@ -2828,33 +2949,67 @@ "metadata": { "name": "Richard Aldington", "gender": "male", + "college": null, + "movement": null, "religion": null, "nationality": "english", "language": "english", "link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Aldington", "favorite": true, "tags": [ - "", "english" ], "birth": { "date": { - "year": 1892 + "year": 1892, + "month": "july", + "day": 8 + }, + "place": { + "city": "Portsmouth", + "state": "Hampshire", + "country": "England" } }, "death": { "date": { - "year": 1962 + "year": 1962, + "month": "july", + "day": 27 + }, + "place": { + "city": "Sury", + "state": "Ardennes", + "country": "France" } }, "flag": "🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿", - "n_poems": 11 + "n_poems": 12 }, "poems": { + "argyria": { + "title": "“Argyria”", + "body": "O you, \nO you most fair, \nSwayer of reeds, whisperer \nAmong the flowering rushes, \nYou have hidden away your hands\nBeneath the poplar leaves;\nYou have given them to the white waters.\n\nSwallow-fleet;\nSea-child cold from the waves;\nSlight reed that sang so blithely in the wind;\nWhite cloud the white sun kissed into the air;\nPan mourns for you. \n\nWhite limbs, white song,\nPan mourns for you.", + "metadata": { + "source": { + "title": "Collected Poems", + "published": { + "year": 1928 + } + }, + "language": "english" + } + }, "beauty-unpraised": { "title": "“Beauty Unpraised”", "body": "There is only you.\nThe rest are palterers, slovens, parasites.\nYou only are strong, clear-cut, austere;\nOnly about you the light curls\nLike a gold laurel bough.\n\n_Your words are cold faked stone,\nScentless white violets?_\n\nLaugh!\nLet them blunder.\nThe sea is ever the sea\nAnd none can change it,\nNone possess it.", "metadata": { + "source": { + "title": "Collected Poems", + "published": { + "year": 1928 + } + }, "language": "english" } }, @@ -2862,6 +3017,12 @@ "title": "“Dilemma”", "body": "You asked me if you should still go adventuring\nFor more beauty, new lands, strange faces,\nFor other moons and suns over other cities\nAnd seas and forests you have never beheld;\nOr whether you should sit down quietly\nAnd con over all you have gathered,\nFingering your memories, counting your spoils,\nLetting each day pass without comment\nIndistinguishably--a day only, a passage of hours,\nWithout one blood-beat of discovery or pain.\n\nHow could I answer in words!\nIn any case I am sick of words and talk.\nSo I drew you silently to the window\nOpening upon the spring twilight.\nThere was a deep orange overglow from the sun,\nAnd a young moon with a star in her hand;\nThe last swifts dashed screaming over the roofs,\nWhile the first bats swerved noiselessly across the square;\nThere was a murmur of talk and of moving feet\nAs people strolled and met after work;\nA peasant’s cart went by with a man driving\nAnd a girl holding a candle in a paper shade,\nAnd someone played a mandoline.\n\nWere you answered? I do not know,\nFor after a long silence you spoke of other things.\nBut I do not know any other silence to give you.", "metadata": { + "source": { + "title": "Collected Poems", + "published": { + "year": 1928 + } + }, "language": "english" } }, @@ -2869,6 +3030,12 @@ "title": "“Glaucopis”", "body": "O maidens, whom I loved\nAnd now love not at all,\nNor even the memory of your shadowy faces,\nWho loved me also,\nStriving with delicate and sensuous days\nTo thrall my soul,\nBehold!\nFrom the hush and the dusk\nCome, like the whisper of dawn,\nHer frail, her magical feet.\nFrom the desert she blossoms,\nA flower of the winds,\nTremulous, shaken by love.\n\nAh Gods!\nAnd I may not hearken\nNor stoop to the flower.", "metadata": { + "source": { + "title": "Collected Poems", + "published": { + "year": 1928 + } + }, "context": { "season": "spring" }, @@ -2879,6 +3046,12 @@ "title": "“I Have Drifted along This River”", "body": "I have drifted along this river\nUntil I moored my boat\nBy these crossed trunks.\nHere the mist moves\nOver fragile leaves and rushes,\nColorless waters and brown, fading hills.\nYou have come from beneath the trees\nAnd move within the mist,\nA floating leaf.\nO blue fower of the evening,\nYou have touched my face\nWith your leaves of silver.\nLove me, for I must depart.", "metadata": { + "source": { + "title": "Collected Poems", + "published": { + "year": 1928 + } + }, "context": { "season": "autumn" }, @@ -2889,6 +3062,12 @@ "title": "“Images”", "body": "# I.\n\nLike a gondola of green scented fruits\nDrifting along the dank canals at Venice,\nYou, O exquisite one,\nHave entered my desolate city.\n\n\n# II.\n\nThe blue smoke leaps\nLike swirling clouds of birds vanishing.\nSo my love leaps forth towards you,\nVanishes and is renewed.\n\n\n# III.\n\nA rose-yellow moon in a pale sky\nWhen the sunset is faint vermilion\nIn the mist among the tree-boughs,\nArt thou to me.\n\n\n# IV.\n\nAs a young beech-tree on the edge of a forest\nStands still in the evening,\nYet shudders through all its leaves in the light air\nAnd seems to fear the stars--\nSo are you still and so tremble.\n\n\n# V.\n\nThe red deer are high on the mountain,\nThey are beyond the last pine trees.\nAnd my desires have run with them.\n\n\n# VI.\n\nThe flower which the wind has shaken\nIs soon filled again with rain;\nSo does my mind fill slowly with misgiving\nUntil you return.", "metadata": { + "source": { + "title": "Collected Poems", + "published": { + "year": 1928 + } + }, "context": { "season": "summer" }, @@ -2899,6 +3078,12 @@ "title": "“La Rochelle”", "body": "Lightly the land-locked waves slide in the harbor,\nLightly, lightly the wind drifts dust of iron men;\nLightly bare feet pat on sun-warmed flags.\nThe lime-trees rustle, sweetening the salt air.\nLightly the colored boats ride at the quay--\nPatched sails, yellow, brown, red on blue masts,\nPatched sailors’ clothes, blue, brown, madder and rose,\nNets dyed deep blue.\nMen pass with a clatter of wooden shoes …\n\nBut who remembers the iron men,\nStarving, faces and vitals pinched,\nTrusting in a God who betrayed them,\nTrusting in the pledged word of the English lords?\nWho remembers them as they starved and died?--\nAnd what can men do more than starve and die\nFor a dream, for a faith, for a pledged word?\n\nDead men, dead men of iron, let me not forget you!\n“Eight months, unsuccored, they held their town,\nHeld it against a great king’s army.\nOut of ten thousand there remained a remnant,\nOne hundred and thirty-six men able to stand.\nWith rage and tears they surrendered their town.”\n\nDead men of iron, forgive us our cowardice,\nForgive us our treachery,\nForgive us that we broke our word,\nForgive us!", "metadata": { + "source": { + "title": "Collected Poems", + "published": { + "year": 1928 + } + }, "context": { "season": "summer" }, @@ -2909,6 +3094,12 @@ "title": "“Le Maudit”", "body": "Women’s tears are but water;\nThe tears of men are blood.\n\nHe sits alone in the firelight\nAnd on either side drifts by\nSleep, like a torrent whirling,\nProfound, wrinkled and dumb.\n\nCircuitously, stealthily,\nDawn occupies the city;\nAs if the seasons knew of his grief\nSpring has suddenly changed into snow\n\nDisaster and sorrow\nHave made him their pet;\nHe cannot escape their accursed embraces.\nFor all his dodgings\nMemory will lacerate him.\n\nWhat good does it do to wander\nNights hours through city streets?\nOnly that in poor places\nHe can be with common men\nAnd receive their unspoken\nInstinctive sympathy.\n\nWhat has life done for him?\nHe stands alone in the darkness\nLike a sentry never relieved,\nLooking over a barren space,\nAwaiting the tardy finish.", "metadata": { + "source": { + "title": "Collected Poems", + "published": { + "year": 1928 + } + }, "context": { "season": "spring" }, @@ -2919,6 +3110,12 @@ "title": "“Loss”", "body": "This is not hell--\nAt least, merely a comfortable hell,\nWith warmth and food and some still moments\nEre the true hell comes rushing in again.\nYet this one thought is torture:\n\n_Have I lost her, lost her indeed?--\nLost the calm eyes and eager lips of love,\nThe two-fold amorous breasts and braided hair\nThe white slim body my senses fed upon,\nAnd all the secret shadows shot with fire?_", "metadata": { + "source": { + "title": "Collected Poems", + "published": { + "year": 1928 + } + }, "language": "english" } }, @@ -2926,6 +3123,12 @@ "title": "“Madrigal”", "body": "Oh, by what rite shall I upbraid\n Beauty that will not let me rest?\nWhat charm shall make to fade\n Those cheeks as fragrantly demure as morn,\nAnd quench the perfume of her flowering breast?\nAll night I waked forlorn,\n I waked forlorn,\nHarkening the lamentation of the rain,\nBut daylight brought no slumber to my pain,\n no slumber to my pain.", "metadata": { + "source": { + "title": "Collected Poems", + "published": { + "year": 1928 + } + }, "context": { "season": "spring" }, @@ -2936,6 +3139,12 @@ "title": "“The Poplars”", "body": "Why do you always stand there shivering\nBetween the white stream and the road?\n\nThe people pass through the dust\nOn bicycles, in carts, in motor-cars;\nThe waggoners go by at dawn;\nThe lovers walk on the grass path at night.\n\nStir from your roots, walk, poplar!\nYou are more beautiful than they are.\n\nI know that the white wind loves you,\nIs always kissing you and turning up\nThe white lining of your green petticoat.\nThe sky darts through you like blue rain,\nAnd the grey rain drips on your flanks\nAnd loves you.\nAnd I have seen the moon\nSlip his silver penny into your pocket\nAs you straightened your hair;\nAnd the white mist curling and hesitating\nLike a bashful lover about your knees.\n\nI know you, poplar;\nI have watched you since I was ten.\nBut if you had a little real love,\nA little strength,\nYou would leave your nonchalant idle lovers\nAnd go walking down the white road\nBehind the waggoners.\n\nThere are beautiful beeches\nDown beyond the hill.\nWill you always stand there shivering?", "metadata": { + "source": { + "title": "Collected Poems", + "published": { + "year": 1928 + } + }, "context": { "season": "winter" }, @@ -2946,6 +3155,12 @@ "title": "“To a Greek Marble”", "body": "Pótuia, pótuia\nWhite grave goddess,\nPity my sadness,\nO silence of Paros.\n\nI am not of these about thy feet,\nThese garments and decorum;\nI am thy brother,\nThy lover of aforetime crying to thee,\nAnd thou hearest me not.\n\nI have whispered thee in thy solitudes\nOf our loves in Phrygia,\nThe far ecstasy of burning noons\nWhen the fragile pipes\nCeased in the cypress shade,\nAnd the brown fingers of the shepherd\nMoved over slim shoulders;\nAnd only the cicada sang.\n\nI have told thee of the hills\nAnd the lisp of reeds\nAnd the sun upon thy breasts,\n\nAnd thou hearest me not,\nPótuia, pótuia\nThou hearest me not.", "metadata": { + "source": { + "title": "Collected Poems", + "published": { + "year": 1928 + } + }, "language": "english" } 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of sapphire lakes,\nOh, tell my jocund heart why from their shore\nOf emerald do those pairs of wandering pearls\nLike rain upon the rosy plains downpour?\n\nLess pure, less tender, are the twilight dews,\nAt eve descending on the crimson rose\nAnd on the lily’s petals, fine and frail,\nThan those twin drops in which thy sorrow flows.\n\nSpeak, why do founts of shining tears descend,\nMary, from thy love-dropping virgin eyes\nTo thy cheek’s edge, and there hang tremulous,\nAs the stars twinkle in the evening skies?\n\nAs the heart-piercing pupil of the eye,\nSo sensitive each tear-drop seems to be;\nLike the unwinking pupil of the eye,\nCharming my soul, the bright drops look at me.\n\nThe heart throbs hard, the gazer holds his breath.--\nAh, now I know the truth! Oh, woe is me!\nFor me those tears have risen to thine eyes,\nTo heal my spirit’s wounds eternally.\n\nBut still of my unconsecrated heart\nDistrustful, they half-fallen linger there,\nAnd do not dare to drop and moisten me.\nNo, Mary! No, O Virgin Mother fair!\n\nI am a land uncultured, rough and wild;\nBut, underneath those tender tears of thine,\nLet rose and saffron bloom there! With thy love\nWater and cheer this sorrowing heart of mine!", "metadata": { - "time": { - "year": 1991 - }, + "translator": "Alice Stone Blackwell", "context": { "holiday": "our_lady_of_sorrows" }, - "language": "english" + "language": "armenian" } }, "weep-not": { "title": "“Weep Not”", "body": "Why art thou troubled, wandering heart?\nWhy dost thou sigh with pain?\nFrom whom do all thy sufferings come?\nOf whom dost thou complain?\n\nIs there no cure for wounds, no friend\nTo lend a pitying ear?\nWhy art thou troubled, wandering heart?\nWeep not! See Jesus near!\n\nSorrow and hardship are for all,\nThough differing forms they wear.\nThe path he gave us teems with thorns.\nThe feet must suffer there.\n\nWhat life, though but a day’s brief span,\nIs free from pain and woe?\n’T is not for mortals born in grief\nTo live at ease below.\n\nNot for the transient joys of earth\nThy heart to thee was given,\nBut for an instrument of grief,\nTo raise thy life toward heaven.\n\nIf joys be few, if pains abound,\nIf balms bring slow relief,\nIf wounds be sore and nature weak,\nThy earthly life is brief.\n\nThis is the vale of death and pain,\nOrdained for ancient sin;\nExcept through anguish, Eden’s gate\nNo soul shall enter in.\n\nJustice ordained it; mercy then\nMade it more light to bear.\nUnasked by thee, Christ sweetened it,\nHis love infusing there.\n\nFrom heaven’s height he hastened down,\nPitying thy trouble sore;\nWith thee a servant he became,\nHimself thy wounds he bore.\n\nHe filled his cup celestial\nFull of thy tears and pain,\nAnd tremblingly, yet freely,\nHe dared the dregs to drain.\n\nRemembering this, wilt thou not drink\nThy cup of tears and care?\n’T is proffered by thy Saviour’s hand,\nHis love is mingled there.\n\nHe feels and pities all thy woes,\nHe wipes away each tear;\nLove he distils into thy griefs;\nWeep not, for he is near!", "metadata": { - "time": { - "year": 1991 - }, + "translator": "Alice Stone Blackwell", "context": { "liturgy": "lent" }, - "language": "english" + "language": "armenian" } } } @@ -3256,6 +3512,8 @@ "metadata": { "name": "Saint Ambrose of Milan", "gender": "male", + "college": null, + "movement": null, "religion": null, "nationality": "roman", "language": "latin", @@ -3306,13 +3564,14 @@ "metadata": { "name": "Yehuda Amichai", "gender": "male", + "college": null, + "movement": null, "religion": null, "nationality": "israeli", "language": "hebrew", "link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yehuda_Amichai", "favorite": true, "tags": [ - "", "israeli" ], "birth": { @@ -3490,13 +3749,14 @@ "metadata": { "name": "Kingsley Amis", "gender": "male", + "college": null, + "movement": null, "religion": null, "nationality": "english", "language": "english", "link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsley_Amis", "favorite": true, "tags": [ - "", "english" ], "birth": { @@ -3543,13 +3803,14 @@ "metadata": { "name": "Tom Andrews", "gender": "male", + "college": null, + "movement": null, "religion": null, "nationality": "american", "language": "english", "link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Andrews_(poet)", "favorite": true, "tags": [ - "", "american" ], "birth": { @@ -3579,13 +3840,14 @@ "metadata": { "name": "Maya Angelou", "gender": "female", + "college": null, + "movement": null, "religion": null, "nationality": "american", "language": "english", "link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_Angelou", "favorite": true, "tags": [ - "", "american" ], "birth": { @@ -3636,13 +3898,14 @@ "metadata": { "name": "Innokenty Annensky", "gender": "male", + "college": null, + "movement": null, "religion": null, "nationality": "russian", "language": "russian", "link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innokenty_Annensky", "favorite": true, "tags": [ - "", "russian" ], "birth": { @@ -3820,13 +4083,14 @@ "metadata": { "name": "Guillaume Apollinaire", "gender": "male", + "college": null, + "movement": null, "religion": null, "nationality": "french", "language": "french", "link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_Apollinaire", "favorite": true, "tags": [ - "", "french" ], "birth": { @@ -3966,6 +4230,8 @@ "metadata": { "name": "Saint Thomas Aquinas", "gender": "male", + "college": null, + "movement": null, "religion": null, "nationality": "italian", "language": "italian", @@ -4025,13 +4291,14 @@ "metadata": { "name": "Louis Aragon", "gender": "male", + "college": null, + "movement": null, "religion": null, "nationality": "french", "language": "french", "link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Aragon", "favorite": true, "tags": [ - "", "french" ], "birth": { @@ -4099,13 +4366,14 @@ "metadata": { "name": "Matthew Arnold", "gender": "male", + "college": null, + "movement": null, "religion": null, "nationality": "english", "language": "english", "link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Arnold", "favorite": true, "tags": [ - "", "english" ], "birth": { @@ -4321,13 +4589,14 @@ "metadata": { "name": "John Ashbery", "gender": "male", + "college": null, + "movement": null, "religion": null, "nationality": "american", "language": "english", "link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ashbery", "favorite": true, "tags": [ - "", "american" ], "birth": { @@ -5139,13 +5408,14 @@ "metadata": { "name": "Miguel Ángel Asturias", "gender": "male", + "college": null, + "movement": null, "religion": null, "nationality": "guatemalan", "language": "spanish", "link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_Ángel_Asturias", "favorite": true, "tags": [ - "", "guatemalan" ], "birth": { @@ -5176,13 +5446,14 @@ "metadata": { "name": "W. 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And he weighs a ton!\nHe’ll never give us back our sun!”\n\nSo they ran to the bear in his lair.\n“Now, Bruin, there’s no time to spare.\nCome, Lazy-Bones, leave off sucking your paw\nHelp us rescue the sun, let it shine as before.”\n\nBut, although he was big and mighty,\nThe bear didn’t feel like fighting.\nHe roared and sobbed and he sobbed and roared\nAs he called his cubs from the grassy sward:\n\n“Oh, children, come back to your poor old father!”\nHe wept and he wept, searching farther and farther.\n\nAnd his wife, Mrs. Bear,\nLooked around everywhere,\nUnder roots, under stumps, under stones, in despair:\n“Oh, my Eddy, Teddy and Pronto!\nWhere, o where have you gone to!\nHave you fallen into a ditch and drowned,\nOr been tom to bits by a mad stray hound?”\n\nShe wandered all day over marsh and scrub,\nBut there wasn’t a trace of a single cub.\nOnly the black owls stared from the wood\nWhen at last, tired out, at her lair she stood.\n\nBut then Mr. Bunny popped out\nAnd began to scold and to shout:\n“Stop whimpering like a hare!\nDon’t forget you’re a bear!”\n\n“Go on, Bandy-Legs, and grab him,\nBy the scaly collar nab him,\nBash him up and underneath,\nTear the sun from his ugly teeth.\n\nAnd as soon as it once more\nShines in heaven as before,\nAll your little ones,\nAll your pretty ones\nWill come running from afar:\n‘Hullo, Daddy, here we are!’”\n\nAnd the bear he reared\nAnd the bear he roared\nAnd the bear he ran\nTo the river ford.\n\nWhere the crocodile lay\nWith the sun, of course,\nShining away\nIn his dreadful jaws--\nThe golden sun,\nThe stolen sun.\n\nBruin crept up quietly\nAnd he poked him lightly:\n“Listen here, you ugly crook,\nGive us back that sun you took,\nOr I’ll take you by the scruff\nAnd I’ll pound you into snuff!\nYes, I’ll teach you how to steal,\nYou, cross between a toad and eel!\nAll the world’s gone upside-down\nAnd he won’t bother why or how!”\n\nBut all the rascal did was laugh\nTill he almost split in half.\n“Get away, you big baboon,\nOr I’ll gobble up the moon!”\n\n“That’s too much to bear!”\nRoared the angry bear,\nAnd his fangs went bare\nAt the enemy.\n\nHe hauled him up\nAnd he mauled him up:\n“Now, out with the sun, by golly!”\n\nAnd the crocodile\nSoon forgot his smile\nAnd he yelled in fright\nWith all his might.\n\nFrom his jaw.\nFrom his maw\nThe sun flew high\nTill it reached the sky,\nAnd its bright light fell\nOver hill and dell.\n\n“Welcome, welcome, golden sun!”\nGladly shouted everyone.\n\nAll the birds took wing\nAnd began to sing.\nAnd the rabbits started dancing,\nTurning somersaults and prancing\nOn the meadow by the spring.\n\nThen the bear-cubs came along\nAnd like jolly kittens\nTugged and pulled at their shaggy dad\nWith their soft brown mittens,\nShouting, calling Dad and Mum,\n“Hullo, parents, here we come!”\n\nEvery little girl and boy,\nEvery beast just beamed with joy.\nThey thanked old Bruin for the rescued sup\nAnd they all had lots and lots of fun.", + "metadata": { + "time": { + "year": 1927 + }, + "translator": "Dorian Rottenberg", + "language": "russian" + } + } + } + }, "john-clare": { "metadata": { "name": "John Clare", "gender": "male", + "college": null, + "movement": null, "religion": null, "nationality": "english", "language": "english", "link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Clare", "favorite": true, "tags": [ - "", "english" ], "birth": { @@ -19938,13 +20399,14 @@ "metadata": { "name": "Paul Claudel", "gender": "male", + "college": null, + "movement": null, "religion": null, "nationality": "french", "language": "french", "link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Claudel", "favorite": true, "tags": [ - "", "french" ], "birth": { @@ -20202,13 +20664,14 @@ "metadata": { "name": "Arthur Hugh Clough", "gender": "male", + "college": null, + "movement": null, "religion": null, "nationality": "english", "language": "english", "link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Hugh_Clough", "favorite": true, "tags": [ - "", "english" ], "birth": { @@ -20245,13 +20708,14 @@ "metadata": { "name": "Robert P. 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"", "english" ], "birth": { @@ -31902,13 +32445,14 @@ "metadata": { "name": "Thomas Gray", "gender": "male", + "college": null, + "movement": null, "religion": null, "nationality": "english", "language": "english", "link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Gray", "favorite": true, "tags": [ - "", "english" ], "birth": { @@ -31965,6 +32509,8 @@ "metadata": { "name": "Saint Gregory of Narek", "gender": "male", + "college": null, + "movement": null, "religion": null, "nationality": "armenian", "language": "armenian", @@ -32756,13 +33302,14 @@ "metadata": { "name": "Nikolai Gumilev", "gender": "male", + "college": null, + "movement": null, "religion": null, "nationality": "russian", "language": "russian", "link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Gumilev", "favorite": true, "tags": [ - "", "russian" ], "birth": { @@ -33126,13 +33673,14 @@ "metadata": { "name": "Thom Gunn", "gender": "male", + "college": null, + "movement": null, "religion": null, "nationality": "english", "language": "english", "link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thom_Gunn", "favorite": true, "tags": [ - "", "english" ], "birth": { @@ -33179,13 +33727,14 @@ "metadata": { "name": "Hadewijch of Antwerp", "gender": "male", + "college": null, + "movement": null, "religion": null, "nationality": "dutch", "language": "dutch", "link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadewijch", "favorite": true, "tags": [ - "", "dutch" ], "birth": { @@ -33309,23 +33858,38 @@ "metadata": { "name": "Donald Hall", "gender": "male", + "college": "harvard, oxford", + "movement": null, "religion": null, "nationality": "american", "language": "english", "link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Hall", "favorite": true, "tags": [ - "", "american" ], "birth": { "date": { - "year": 1928 + "year": 1928, + "month": "september", + "day": 20 + }, + "place": { + "city": "Hamden", + "state": "Connecticut", + "country": "USA" } }, "death": { "date": { - "year": 2018 + "year": 2018, + "month": "june", + "day": 23 + }, + "place": { + "city": "Wilmot", + "state": "New Hampshire", + "country": "USA" } }, "flag": "🇺🇸", @@ -33438,33 +34002,52 @@ "metadata": { "name": "Thomas Hardy", "gender": "male", - "religion": null, + "college": "kings", + "movement": "victorian", + "religion": "anglican", "nationality": "english", "language": "english", "link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hardy", "favorite": true, "tags": [ - "", "english" ], "birth": { "date": { - "year": 1840 + "year": 1840, + "month": "june", + "day": 2 + }, + "place": { + "city": "Stinsford", + "state": "Dorset", + "country": "England" } }, "death": { "date": { - "year": 1928 + "year": 1928, + "month": "january", + "day": 11 + }, + "place": { + "city": "Dorchester", + "state": "Dorset", + "country": "England" } }, "flag": "🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿", - "n_poems": 14 + "n_poems": 16 }, "poems": { "after-a-journey": { "title": "“After a Journey”", "body": "Hereto I come to view a voiceless ghost;\nWhither, O whither will its whim now draw me?\nUp the cliff, down, till I’m lonely, lost,\nAnd the unseen waters’ ejaculations awe me.\nWhere you will next be there’s no knowing,\nFacing round about me everywhere,\nWith your nut-coloured hair,\nAnd gray eyes, and rose-flush coming and going.\n\nYes: I have re-entered your olden haunts at last;\nThrough the years, through the dead scenes I have tracked you;\nWhat have you now found to say of our past--\nViewed across the dark space wherein I have lacked you?\nSummer gave us sweets, but autumn wrought division?\nThings were not lastly as firstly well\nWith us twain, you tell?\nBut all’s closed now, despite Time’s derision.\n\nI see what you are doing: you are leading me on\nTo the spots we knew when we haunted here together,\nThe waterfall, above which the mist-bow shone\nAt the then fair hour in the then fair weather,\nAnd the cave just under, with a voice still so hollow\nThat it seems to call out to me from forty years ago,\nWhen you were all aglow,\nAnd not the thin ghost that I now frailly follow!\n\nIgnorant of what there is flitting here to see,\nThe waked birds preen and the seals flop lazily,\nSoon you will have, Dear, to vanish from me,\nFor the stars close their shutters and the dawn whitens hazily.\nTrust me, I mind not, though Life lours,\nThe bringing me here; nay, bring me here again!\nI am just the same as when\nOur days were a joy, and our paths through flowers.", "metadata": { + "time": { + "year": 1913, + "month": "march" + }, "context": { "season": "spring" }, @@ -33475,6 +34058,15 @@ "title": "“And There Was a Great Calm”", "body": "There had been years of Passion--scorching, cold,\nAnd much Despair, and Anger heaving high,\nCare whitely watching, Sorrows manifold,\nAmong the young, among the weak and old,\nAnd the pensive Spirit of Pity whispered, “Why?”\n\nMen had not paused to answer. Foes distraught\nPierced the thinned peoples in a brute-like blindness,\nPhilosophies that sages long had taught,\nAnd Selflessness, were as an unknown thought,\nAnd “Hell!” and “Shell!” were yapped at Lovingkindness.\n\nThe feeble folk at home had grown full-used\nTo ‘dug-outs’, ‘snipers’, ‘Huns’, from the war-adept\nIn the mornings heard, and at evetides perused;\nTo day-dreamt men in millions, when they mused--\nTo nightmare-men in millions when they slept.\n\nWaking to wish existence timeless, null,\nSirius they watched above where armies fell;\nHe seemed to check his flapping when, in the lull\nOf night a boom came thencewise, like the dull\nPlunge of a stone dropped into some deep well.\n\nSo, when old hopes that earth was bettering slowly\nWere dead and damned, there sounded “War is done!”\nOne morrow. Said the bereft, and meek, and lowly,\n“Will men some day be given to grace? yea, wholly,\nAnd in good sooth, as our dreams used to run?”\n\nBreathless they paused. Out there men raised their glance\nTo where had stood those poplars lank and lopped,\nAs they had raised it through the four years’ dance\nOf Death in the now familiar flats of France;\nAnd murmured, “Strange, this! How? All firing stopped?”\n\nAye; all was hushed. The about-to-fire fired not,\nThe aimed-at moved away in trance-lipped song.\nOne checkless regiment slung a clinching shot\nAnd turned. The Spirit of Irony smirked out, “What?\nSpoil peradventures woven of Rage and Wrong?”\n\nThenceforth no flying fires inflamed the gray,\nNo hurtlings shook the dewdrop from the thorn,\nNo moan perplexed the mute bird on the spray;\nWorn horses mused: “We are not whipped to-day;”\nNo weft-winged engines blurred the moon’s thin horn.\n\nCalm fell. From Heaven distilled a clemency;\nThere was peace on earth, and silence in the sky;\nSome could, some could not, shake off misery:\nThe Sinister Spirit sneered: “It had to be!”\nAnd again the Spirit of Pity whispered, “Why?”", "metadata": { + "time": { + "year": 1918, + "month": "november", + "day": 11 + }, + "context": { + "month": "november", + "day": 11 + }, "language": "english" } }, @@ -33482,6 +34074,9 @@ "title": "“Before Marching and After”", "body": "Orion swung southward aslant\nWhere the starved Egdon pine-trees had thinned,\nThe Pleiads aloft seemed to pant\nWith the heather that twitched in the wind;\nBut he looked on indifferent to sights such as these,\nUnswayed by love, friendship, home joy or home sorrow,\nAnd wondered to what he would march on the morrow.\n\nThe crazed household-clock with its whirr\nRang midnight within as he stood,\nHe heard the low sighing of her\nWho had striven from his birth for his good;\nBut he still only asked the spring starlight, the breeze,\nWhat great thing or small thing his history would borrow\nFrom that Game with Death he would play on the morrow.\n\nWhen the heath wore the robe of late summer,\nAnd the fuchsia-bells, hot in the sun,\nHung red by the door, a quick comer\nBrought tidings that marching was done\nFor him who had joined in that game overseas\nWhere Death stood to win, though his name was to borrow\nA brightness therefrom not to fade on the morrow.", "metadata": { + "time": { + "year": 1916 + }, "context": { "month": "september" }, @@ -33495,20 +34090,26 @@ "language": "english" } }, - "in-tenebris": { - "title": "“In Tenebris”", - "body": "_“Percussus sum sicut foenum, et aruit cor meum.”_\n--Ps. _ci._\n\nWintertime nighs;\nBut my bereavement-pain\nIt cannot bring again:\nTwice no one dies.\n\nFlower-petals flee;\nBut, since it once hath been,\nNo more that severing scene\nCan harrow me.\n\nBirds faint in dread:\nI shall not lose old strength\nIn the lone frost’s black length:\nStrength long since fled!\n\nLeaves freeze to dun;\nBut friends can not turn cold\nThis season as of old\nFor him with none.\n\nTempests may scath;\nBut love can not make smart\nAgain this year his heart\nWho no heart hath.\n\nBlack is night’s cope;\nBut death will not appal\nOne who, past doubtings all,\nWaits in unhope.", + "de-profundis": { + "title": "“De Profundis”", + "body": "# I.\n\n_“Percussus sum sicut foenum, et aruit cor meum.”_\n --_Ps. ci_\n\n Wintertime nighs;\nBut my bereavement-pain\nIt cannot bring again:\n Twice no one dies.\n\n Flower-petals flee;\nBut, since it once hath been,\nNo more that severing scene\n Can harrow me.\n\n Birds faint in dread:\nI shall not lose old strength\nIn the lone frost’s black length:\n Strength long since fled!\n\n Leaves freeze to dun;\nBut friends can not turn cold\nThis season as of old\n For him with none.\n\n Tempests may scath;\nBut love can not make smart\nAgain this year his heart\n Who no heart hath.\n\n Black is night’s cope;\nBut death will not appal\nOne who, past doubtings all,\n Waits in unhope.\n\n\n# II.\n\n_“Considerabam ad dexteram, et videbam; et non erat qui cognosceret me … Non est qui requirat animam meam.”_\n --_Ps. cxli._\n\nWhen the clouds’ swoln bosoms echo back the shouts of the many and strong\nThat things are all as they best may be, save a few to be right ere long,\nAnd my eyes have not the vision in them to discern what to these is so clear,\nThe blot seems straightway in me alone; one better he were not here.\n\nThe stout upstanders say, All’s well with us: ruers have nought to rue!\nAnd what the potent say so oft, can it fail to be somewhat true?\nBreezily go they, breezily come; their dust smokes around their career,\nTill I think I am one horn out of due time, who has no calling here.\n\nTheir dawns bring lusty joys, it seems; their eves exultance sweet;\nOur times are blessed times, they cry: Life shapes it as is most meet,\nAnd nothing is much the matter; there are many smiles to a tear;\nThen what is the matter is I, I say. Why should such an one be here? …\n\nLet him to whose ears the low-voiced Best seems stilled by the clash of the First,\nWho holds that if way to the Better there be, it exacts a full look at the Worst,\nWho feels that delight is a delicate growth cramped by crookedness, custom, and fear,\nGet him up and be gone as one shaped awry; he disturbs the order here.\n\n\n# III.\n\n_“Heu mihi, quia incolatus meus prolongatus est! Habitavi cum habitantibus Cedar; multum incola fuit aninia mea.”_\n --_Ps. cxix._\n\nThere have been times when I well might have passed and the ending have come--\nPoints in my path when the dark might have stolen on me, artless, unrueing--\nEre I had learnt that the world was a welter of futile doing:\nSuch had been times when I well might have passed, and the ending have come!\n\nSay, on the noon when the half-sunny hours told that April was nigh,\nAnd I upgathered and cast forth the snow from the crocus-border,\nFashioned and furbished the soil into a summer-seeming order,\nGlowing in gladsome faith that I quickened the year thereby.\n\nOr on that loneliest of eves when afar and benighted we stood,\nShe who upheld me and I, in the midmost of Egdon together,\nConfident I in her watching and ward through the blackening heather,\nDeeming her matchless in might and with measureless scope endued.\n\nOr on that winter-wild night when, reclined by the chimney-nook quoin,\nSlowly a drowse overgat me, the smallest and feeblest of folk there,\nWeak from my baptism of pain; when at times and anon I awoke there--\nHeard of a world wheeling on, with no listing or longing to join.\n\nEven then! while unweeting that vision could vex or that knowledge could numb,\nThat sweets to the mouth in the belly are bitter, and tart, and untoward,\nThen, on some dim-coloured scene should my briefly raised curtain have lowered,\nThen might the Voice that is law have said “Cease!” and the ending have come.", "metadata": { + "time": { + "year": 1896 + }, "context": { - "month": "november" + "liturgy": "advent" }, "language": "english" } }, "the-last-performance": { "title": "“The Last Performance”", - "body": "“I am playing my oldest tunes,” declared she,\n “All the old tunes I know,--\nThose I learnt ever so long ago.”\n--Why she should think just then she’d play them\n Silence cloaks like snow.\n\nWhen I returned from the town at nightfall\n Notes continued to pour\nAs when I had left two hours before:\n“It’s the very last time,” she said in closing;\n “From now I play no more.”\n\nA few morns onward found her fading,\n And, as her life outflew,\nI thought of her playing her tunes right through;\nAnd I felt she had known of what was coming,\n And wondered how she knew.", + "body": "“I am playing my oldest tunes,” declared she,\n “All the old tunes I know,--\nThose I learnt ever so long ago.”\n--Why she should think just then she’d play them\n Silence cloaks like snow.\n\nWhen I returned from the town at nightfall\n Notes continued to pour\nAs when I had left two hours before:\n“It’s the very last time,” she said in closing;\n “From now I play no more.”\n\nA few morns onward found her fading,\n And, as her life outflew,\nI thought of her playing her tunes right through;\nAnd I felt she had known of what was coming,\n And wondered how she knew.", "metadata": { + "time": { + "year": 1912 + }, "context": { "season": "winter" }, @@ -33519,6 +34120,15 @@ "title": "“Men Who March Away”", "body": "What of the faith and fire within us\nMen who march away\nEre the barn-cocks say\nNight is growing gray,\nLeaving all that here can win us;\nWhat of the faith and fire within us\nMen who march away?\n\nIs it a purblind prank, O think you,\nFriend with the musing eye,\nWho watch us stepping by\nWith doubt and dolorous sigh?\nCan much pondering so hoodwink you!\nIs it a purblind prank, O think you,\nFriend with the musing eye?\n\nNay. We well see what we are doing,\nThough some may not see--\nDalliers as they be--\nEngland’s need are we;\nHer distress would leave us rueing:\nNay. We well see what we are doing,\nThough some may not see!\n\nIn our heart of hearts believing\nVictory crowns the just,\nAnd that braggarts must\nSurely bite the dust,\nPress we to the field ungrieving,\nIn our heart of hearts believing\nVictory crowns the just.\n\nHence the faith and fire within us\nMen who march away\nEre the barn-cocks say\nNight is growing gray,\nLeaving all that here can win us;\nHence the faith and fire within us\nMen who march away.", "metadata": { + "time": { + "year": 1914, + "month": "september", + "day": 5 + }, + "context": { + "month": "september", + "day": 5 + }, "language": "english" } }, @@ -33526,6 +34136,9 @@ "title": "“A New Year’s Eve in War Time”", "body": "Phantasmal fears,\nAnd the flap of the flame,\nAnd the throb of the clock,\nAnd a loosened slate,\nAnd the blind night’s drone,\nWhich tiredly the spectral pines intone!\n\nAnd the blood in my ears\nStrumming always the same,\nAnd the gable-cock\nWith its fitful grate,\nAnd myself, alone.\n\nThe twelfth hour nears\nHand-hid, as in shame;\nI undo the lock,\nAnd listen, and wait\nFor the Young Unknown.\n\nIn the dark there careers--\nAs if Death astride came\nTo numb all with his knock--\nA horse at mad rate\nOver rut and stone.\n\nNo figure appears,\nNo call of my name,\nNo sound but ‘Tic-toc’\nWithout check. Past the gate\nIt clatters--is gone.\n\nWhat rider it bears\nThere is none to proclaim;\nAnd the Old Year has struck,\nAnd, scarce animate,\nThe New makes moan.\n\nMaybe that ‘More Tears!--\nMore Famine and Flame--\nMore Severance and Shock!’\nIs the order from Fate\nThat the Rider speeds on\nTo pale Europe; and tiredly the pines intone.", "metadata": { + "time": { + "year": 1915 + }, "context": { "holiday": "new_years_eve" }, @@ -33536,6 +34149,9 @@ "title": "“The Oxen”", "body": "Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock.\n“Now they are all on their knees,”\nAn elder said as we sat in a flock\nBy the embers in hearthside ease.\n\nWe pictured the meek mild creatures where\nThey dwelt in their strawy pen,\nNor did it occur to one of us there\nTo doubt they were kneeling then.\n\nSo fair a fancy few would weave\nIn these years! Yet, I feel,\nIf someone said on Christmas Eve,\n“Come; see the oxen kneel,”\n\n“In the lonely barton by yonder coomb\nOur childhood used to know,”\nI should go with him in the gloom,\nHoping it might be so.", "metadata": { + "time": { + "year": 1915 + }, "context": { "holiday": "christmas_eve" }, @@ -33546,8 +34162,14 @@ "title": "“Rain on a Grave”", "body": "Clouds spout upon her\nTheir waters amain\nIn ruthless disdain,--\nHer who but lately\nHad shivered with pain\nAs at touch of dishonour\nIf there had lit on her\nSo coldly, so straightly\nSuch arrows of rain:\n\nOne who to shelter\nHer delicate head\nWould quicken and quicken\nEach tentative tread\nIf drops chanced to pelt her\nThat summertime spills\nIn dust-paven rills\nWhen thunder-clouds thicken\nAnd birds close their bills.\n\nWould that I lay there\nAnd she were housed here!\nOr better, together\nWere folded away there\nExposed to one weather\nWe both,--who would stray there\nWhen sunny the day there,\nOr evening was clear\nAt the prime of the year.\n\nSoon will be growing\nGreen blades from her mound,\nAnd daisies be showing\nLike stars on the ground,\nTill she form part of them--\nAy--the sweet heart of them,\nLoved beyond measure\nWith a child’s pleasure\nAll her life’s round.", "metadata": { + "time": { + "year": 1913, + "month": "january", + "day": 31 + }, "context": { - "month": "march" + "month": "january", + "day": 31 }, "language": "english" } @@ -33556,6 +34178,22 @@ "title": "“The Self-Unseeing”", "body": "Here is the ancient floor,\nFootworn and hollowed and thin,\nHere was the former door\nWhere the dead feet walked in.\n\nShe sat here in her chair,\nSmiling into the fire;\nHe who played stood there,\nBowing it higher and higher.\n\nChildlike, I danced in a dream;\nBlessings emblazoned that day;\nEverything glowed with a gleam;\nYet we were looking away!", "metadata": { + "time": { + "year": 1901 + }, + "source": { + "title": "Poems of the Past and the Present" + }, + "language": "english" + } + }, + "the-shadow-on-the-stone": { + "title": "“The Shadow on the Stone”", + "body": " I went by the Druid stone \n That stands in the garden white and lone, \nAnd I stopped and looked at the shifting shadows \n That at some moments there are thrown\n From the tree hard by with a rhythmic swing, \n And they shaped in my imagining\nTo the shade that a well-known head and shoulders \n Threw there when she was gardening.\n\n I thought her behind my back,\n Yea, her I long had learned to lack,\nAnd I said: “I am sure you are standing behind me, \n Though how do you get into this old track?”\n And there was no sound but the fall of a leaf \n As a sad response; and to keep down grief\nI would not turn my head to discover\n That there was nothing in my belief.\n\n Yet I wanted to look and see\n That nobody stood at the back of me;\nBut I thought once more: “Nay, I’ll not unvision \n A shape which, somehow, there may be.”\n So I went on softly from the glade,\n And left her behind me throwing her shade, \nAs she were indeed an apparition--\n My head unturned lest my dream should fade.", + "metadata": { + "time": { + "year": 1917 + }, "language": "english" } }, @@ -33563,6 +34201,9 @@ "title": "“Shut out that Moon”", "body": "Close up the casement, draw the blind,\nShut out that stealing moon,\nShe wears too much the guise she wore\nBefore our lutes were strewn\nWith years-deep dust, and names we read\nOn a white stone were hewn.\n\nStep not forth on the dew-dashed lawn\nTo view the Lady’s Chair,\nImmense Orion’s glittering form,\nThe Less and Greater Bear:\nStay in; to such sights we were drawn\nWhen faded ones were fair.\n\nBrush not the bough for midnight scents\nThat come forth lingeringly,\nAnd wake the same sweet sentiments\nThey breathed to you and me\nWhen living seemed a laugh, and love\nAll it was said to be.\n\nWithin the common lamp-lit room\nPrison my eyes and thought;\nLet dingy details crudely loom,\nMechanic speech be wrought:\nToo fragrant was Life’s early bloom,\nToo tart the fruit it brought!", "metadata": { + "time": { + "year": 1904 + }, "language": "english" } }, @@ -33577,11 +34218,24 @@ "title": "“The Voice”", "body": "Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me,\nSaying that now you are not as you were\nWhen you had changed from the one who was all to me,\nBut as at first, when our day was fair.\n\nCan it be you that I hear? Let me view you, then,\nStanding as when I drew near to the town\nWhere you would wait for me: yes, as I knew you then,\nEven to the original air-blue gown!\n\nOr is it only the breeze, in its listlessness\nTravelling across the wet mead to me here,\nYou being ever dissolved to wan wistlessness,\nHeard no more again far or near?\n\nThus I; faltering forward,\nLeaves around me falling,\nWind oozing thin through the thorn from norward,\nAnd the woman calling.", "metadata": { + "source": { + "title": "Satires of Circumstance", + "published": { + "year": 1914 + } + }, "context": { "season": "autumn" }, "language": "english" } + }, + "fragment": { + "title": "Fragment", + "body": "At last I entered a long dark gallery,\nCatacomb-lined; and ranged at the side\nWere the bodies of men from far and wide\nWho, motion past, were nevertheless not dead.\n\n“The sense of waiting here strikes strong;\nEveryone’s waiting, waiting, it seems to me;\nWhat are you waiting for so long?--\nWhat is to happen?” I said.\n\n“O we are waiting for one called God,” said they,\n“(Though by some the Will, or Force, or Laws;\nAnd, vaguely, by some, the Ultimate Cause;)\nWaiting for him to see us before we are clay.\nYes; waiting, waiting, for God to know it.” …\n\n“To know what?” questioned I.\n“To know how things have been going on earth and below it:\nIt is clear he must know some day.”\nI thereon asked them why.\n“Since he made us humble pioneers\nOf himself in consciousness of Life’s tears,\nIt needs no mighty prophecy\nTo tell that what he could mindlessly show\nHis creatures, he himself will know.”\n\n“By some still close-cowled mystery\nWe have reached feeling faster than he,\nBut he will overtake us anon,\nIf the world goes on.”", + "metadata": { + "language": "english" + } } } }, @@ -33589,13 +34243,14 @@ "metadata": { "name": "Minnie Louise Haskins", "gender": "male", + "college": null, + "movement": null, "religion": null, "nationality": "british", "language": "english", "link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnie_Louise_Haskins", "favorite": true, "tags": [ - "", "british" ], "birth": { @@ -33628,13 +34283,14 @@ "metadata": { "name": "Robert Hayden", "gender": "male", + "college": null, + "movement": null, "religion": null, "nationality": "american", "language": "english", "link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hayden", "favorite": true, "tags": [ - "", "american" ], "birth": { @@ -33675,13 +34331,14 @@ "metadata": { "name": "Seamus Heaney", "gender": "male", + "college": null, + "movement": null, "religion": null, "nationality": "irish", "language": "english", "link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seamus_Heaney", "favorite": true, "tags": [ - "", "irish" ], "birth": { @@ -33795,13 +34452,14 @@ "metadata": { "name": "James Hearst", "gender": "male", + "college": null, + "movement": null, "religion": null, "nationality": "american", "language": "english", "link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hearst", "favorite": true, "tags": [ - "", "american" ], "birth": { @@ -33868,6 +34526,8 @@ "metadata": { "name": "Reginald Heber", "gender": "male", + "college": null, + "movement": null, "religion": null, "nationality": "english", "language": "english", @@ -33918,23 +34578,38 @@ "metadata": { "name": "Anthony Hecht", "gender": "male", + "college": null, + "movement": null, "religion": null, "nationality": "american", "language": "english", "link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Hecht", "favorite": true, "tags": [ - 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"", "english", "welsh" ], @@ -34567,13 +35245,14 @@ "metadata": { "name": "Ernest Hemingway", "gender": "male", + "college": null, + "movement": null, "religion": null, "nationality": "american", "language": "english", "link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway", "favorite": true, "tags": [ - "", "american" ], "birth": { @@ -34798,13 +35477,14 @@ "metadata": { "name": "William Ernest Henley", "gender": "male", + "college": null, + "movement": null, "religion": null, "nationality": "english", "language": "english", "link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ernest_Henley", "favorite": true, "tags": [ - "", "english" ], "birth": { @@ -34875,13 +35555,14 @@ "metadata": { "name": "George Herbert", "gender": "male", + "college": null, + "movement": null, "religion": null, "nationality": "english", "language": "english", "link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Herbert", "favorite": true, "tags": [ - "", "english" ], "birth": { @@ -35479,13 +36160,14 @@ "metadata": { "name": "Zbigniew Herbert", "gender": "male", + "college": null, + "movement": null, "religion": null, "nationality": "polish", "language": "polish", "link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zbigniew_Herbert", "favorite": true, "tags": [ - "", "polish" ], "birth": { @@ -35805,13 +36487,14 @@ "metadata": { "name": "Robert Herrick", "gender": "male", + "college": null, + "movement": null, "religion": null, "nationality": "english", "language": "english", "link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Herrick_(poet)", "favorite": true, "tags": [ - "", "english" ], "birth": { @@ -35878,13 +36561,14 @@ "metadata": { "name": "Hermann Hesse", "gender": "male", + "college": null, + "movement": null, "religion": null, "nationality": "german+swiss", "language": "german", "link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Hesse", "favorite": true, "tags": [ - "", "german", "swiss" ], @@ -36081,13 +36765,14 @@ "metadata": { "name": "Georg Heym", "gender": "male", + "college": null, + "movement": null, "religion": null, "nationality": "german", "language": "german", "link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Heym", "favorite": true, "tags": [ - "", "german" ], "birth": { @@ -36125,6 +36810,8 @@ "metadata": { "name": "Saint Hildegard of Bingen", "gender": "male", + "college": null, + "movement": null, "religion": null, "nationality": "german", "language": "german", @@ -36209,13 +36896,14 @@ "metadata": { "name": "Geoffrey Hill", "gender": "male", + "college": null, + "movement": null, "religion": null, "nationality": "english", "language": "english", "link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Hill", "favorite": true, "tags": [ - "", "english" ], "birth": { @@ -36273,13 +36961,14 @@ "metadata": { "name": "Robert Hillyer", "gender": "male", + "college": null, + "movement": null, "religion": null, "nationality": "american", "language": "english", "link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hillyer", "favorite": true, "tags": [ - "", "american" ], "birth": { @@ -36333,13 +37022,14 @@ "metadata": { "name": "Daniel Hoffmann", "gender": "male", + "college": null, + "movement": null, "religion": null, "nationality": "american", "language": "english", "link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Hoffman", "favorite": true, "tags": [ - "", "american" ], "birth": { @@ -36489,13 +37179,14 @@ "metadata": { "name": "Oliver Wendell Holmes", "gender": "male", + "college": null, + "movement": null, "religion": null, "nationality": "american", "language": "english", "link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Wendell_Holmes_Sr.", "favorite": true, "tags": [ - "", "american" ], "birth": { @@ -36539,13 +37230,14 @@ "metadata": { "name": "Arno Holz", "gender": "male", + "college": null, + "movement": null, "religion": null, "nationality": "german", "language": "german", "link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arno_Holz", "favorite": true, "tags": [ - "", "german" ], "birth": { @@ -36641,13 +37333,14 @@ "metadata": { "name": "Thomas Hood", "gender": "male", + "college": null, + "movement": null, "religion": null, "nationality": "english", "language": "english", "link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hood", "favorite": true, "tags": [ - "", "english" ], "birth": { @@ -36714,13 +37407,14 @@ "metadata": { "name": "Gerard Manley Hopkins", "gender": "male", + "college": null, + "movement": null, "religion": null, "nationality": "english", "language": "english", "link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Manley_Hopkins", "favorite": true, "tags": [ - "", "english" ], "birth": { @@ -37621,6 +38315,8 @@ "metadata": { "name": "Thomas Hopko", "gender": "male", + "college": null, + "movement": null, "religion": null, "nationality": "american", "language": "english", @@ -37661,13 +38357,14 @@ "metadata": { "name": "Horace", "gender": "male", + "college": null, + "movement": null, "religion": null, "nationality": "roman", "language": "latin", "link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace", "favorite": true, "tags": [ - "", "roman" ], "birth": { @@ -37753,23 +38450,38 @@ "metadata": { "name": "A. E. Housman", "gender": "male", + "college": null, + "movement": null, "religion": null, "nationality": "english", "language": "english", "link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._E._Housman", "favorite": true, "tags": [ - "", "english" ], "birth": { "date": { - "year": 1859 + "year": 1859, + "month": "march", + "day": 26 + }, + "place": { + "city": "Bromsgrove", + "state": "Worcestershire", + "country": "England" } }, "death": { "date": { - "year": 1936 + "year": 1936, + "month": "april", + "day": 30 + }, + "place": { + "city": "Cambridge", + "state": "Cambridgeshire", + "country": "England" } }, "flag": "🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿", @@ -37780,6 +38492,12 @@ "title": "“Along the Field”", "body": "Along the field as we came by\nA year ago, my love and I,\nThe aspen over stile and stone\nWas talking to itself alone.\n“Oh who are these that kiss and pass?\nA country lover and his lass;\nTwo lovers looking to be wed;\nAnd time shall put them both to bed,\nBut she shall lie with earth above,\nAnd he beside another love.”\n\nAnd sure enough beneath the tree\nThere walks another love with me,\nAnd overhead the aspen heaves\nIts rainy-sounding silver leaves;\nAnd I spell nothing in their stir,\nBut now perhaps they speak to her,\nAnd plain for her to understand\nThey talk about a time at hand\nWhen I shall sleep with clover clad,\nAnd she beside another lad.", "metadata": { + "source": { + "title": "A Shropshire Lad", + "published": { + "year": 1896 + } + }, "context": { "season": "summer" }, @@ -37790,6 +38508,12 @@ "title": "“As I gird on for fighting …”", "body": "As I gird on for fighting\n My sword upon my thigh,\nI think on old ill fortunes\n Of better men than I.\n\nThink I, the round world over,\n What golden lads are low\nWith hurts not mine to mourn for\n And shames I shall not know.\n\nWhat evil luck soever\n For me remains in store,\n’Tis sure much finer fellows\n Have fared much worse before.\n\nSo here are things to think on\n That ought to make me brave,\nAs I strap on for fighting\n My sword that will not save.", "metadata": { + "source": { + "title": "A Shropshire Lad", + "published": { + "year": 1896 + } + }, "language": "english" } }, @@ -37797,6 +38521,12 @@ "title": "“Astronomy”", "body": "The Wain upon the northern steep\n Descends and lifts away.\nOh I will sit me down and weep\n For bones in Africa.\n\nFor pay and medals, name and rank,\n Things that he has not found,\nHe hove the Cross to heaven and sank\n The pole-star underground.\n\nAnd now he does not even see\n Signs of the nadir roll\nAt night over the ground where he\n Is buried with the pole.", "metadata": { + "source": { + "title": "A Shropshire Lad", + "published": { + "year": 1896 + } + }, "language": "english" } }, @@ -37804,6 +38534,12 @@ "title": "“Be Still, My Soul”", "body": "Be still, my soul, be still; the arms you bear are brittle,\nEarth and high heaven are fixt of old and founded strong.\nThink rather,--call to thought, if now you grieve a little,\nThe days when we had rest, O soul, for they were long.\n\nMen loved unkindness then, but lightless in the quarry\nI slept and saw not; tears fell down, I did not mourn;\nSweat ran and blood sprang out and I was never sorry:\nThen it was well with me, in days ere I was born.\n\nNow, and I muse for why and never find the reason,\nI pace the earth, and drink the air, and feel the sun.\nBe still, be still, my soul; it is but for a season:\nLet us endure an hour and see injustice done.\n\nAy, look: high heaven and earth ail from the prime foundation;\nAll thoughts to rive the heart are here, and all are vain:\nHorror and scorn and hate and fear and indignation--\nOh why did I awake? when shall I sleep again?", "metadata": { + "source": { + "title": "A Shropshire Lad", + "published": { + "year": 1896 + } + }, "context": { "season": "summer" }, @@ -37814,6 +38550,12 @@ "title": "“Could man be drunk for ever …”", "body": "Could man be drunk for ever\n With liquor, love, or fights,\nLief should I rouse at morning\n And lief lie down of nights.\n\nBut men at whiles are sober\n And think by fits and starts,\nAnd if they think, they fasten\n Their hands upon their hearts.", "metadata": { + "source": { + "title": "A Shropshire Lad", + "published": { + "year": 1896 + } + }, "language": "english" } }, @@ -37821,6 +38563,12 @@ "title": "“The Culprit”", "body": "The night my father got me\n His mind was not on me;\nHe did not plague his fancy\n To muse if I should be\n The son you see.\n\nThe day my mother bore me\n She was a fool and glad,\nFor all the pain I cost her,\n That she had borne the lad\n That borne she had.\n\nMy mother and my father\n Out of the light they lie;\nThe warrant would not find them,\n And here ’tis only I\n Shall hang so high.\n\nOh let not man remember\n The soul that God forgot,\nBut fetch the county kerchief\n And noose me in the knot,\n And I will rot.\n\nFor so the game is ended\n That should not have begun.\nMy father and my mother\n They had a likely son,\n And I have none.", "metadata": { + "source": { + "title": "A Shropshire Lad", + "published": { + "year": 1896 + } + }, "language": "english" } }, @@ -37828,6 +38576,12 @@ "title": "“An End of May”", "body": "The chestnut casts his flambeaux, and the flowers\n Stream from the hawthorn on the wind away,\nThe doors clap to, the pane is blind with showers.\n Pass me the can, lad; there’s an end of May.\n\nThere’s one spoilt spring to scant our mortal lot,\n One season ruined of our little store.\nMay will be fine next year as like as not:\n Oh ay, but then we shall be twenty-four.\n\nWe for a certainty are not the first\n Have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled\nTheir hopeful plans to emptiness, and cursed\n Whatever brute and blackguard made the world.\n\nIt is in truth iniquity on high\n To cheat our sentenced souls of aught they crave,\nAnd mar the merriment as you and I\n Fare on our long fool’s-errand to the grave.\n\nIniquity it is; but pass the can.\n My lad, no pair of kings our mothers bore;\nOur only portion is the estate of man:\n We want the moon, but we shall get no more.\n\nIf here to-day the cloud of thunder lours\n To-morrow it will hie on far behests;\nThe flesh will grieve on other bones than ours\n Soon, and the soul will mourn in other breasts.\n\nThe troubles of our proud and angry dust\n Are from eternity, and shall not fail.\nBear them we can, and if we can we must.\n Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.", "metadata": { + "source": { + "title": "A Shropshire Lad", + "published": { + "year": 1896 + } + }, "context": { "month": "may", "month_epoch": "late" @@ -37839,6 +38593,12 @@ "title": "“Her strong enchantments failing …”", "body": "Her strong enchantments failing,\n Her towers of fear in wreck,\nHer limbecks dried of poisons\n And the knife at her neck,\n\nThe Queen of air and darkness\n Begins to shrill and cry,\n“O young man, O my slayer,\n To-morrow you shall die.”\n\nO Queen of air and darkness,\n I think ’tis truth you say,\nAnd I shall die to-morrow;\n But you will die to-day.", "metadata": { + "source": { + "title": "A Shropshire Lad", + "published": { + "year": 1896 + } + }, "language": "english" } }, @@ -37846,6 +38606,12 @@ "title": "“Here Dead We Lie”", "body": "Here dead we lie\nBecause we did not choose\nTo live and shame the land\nFrom which we sprung.\n\nLife, to be sure,\nIs nothing much to lose,\nBut young men think it is,\nAnd we were young.", "metadata": { + "source": { + "title": "A Shropshire Lad", + "published": { + "year": 1896 + } + }, "language": "english" } }, @@ -37853,6 +38619,12 @@ "title": "“Illic Jacet”", "body": "Oh hard is the bed they have made him,\n And common the blanket and cheap;\nBut there he will lie as they laid him:\n Where else could you trust him to sleep?\n\nTo sleep when the bugle is crying\n And cravens have heard and are brave,\nWhen mothers and sweethearts are sighing\n And lads are in love with the grave.\n\nOh dark is the chamber and lonely,\n And lights and companions depart;\nBut lief will he lose them and only\n Behold the desire of his heart.\n\nAnd low is the roof, but it covers\n A sleeper content to repose;\nAnd far from his friends and his lovers\n He lies with the sweetheart he chose.", "metadata": { + "source": { + "title": "A Shropshire Lad", + "published": { + "year": 1896 + } + }, "language": "english" } }, @@ -37860,6 +38632,12 @@ "title": "“In midnights of November …”", "body": "In midnights of November,\n When Dead Man’s Fair is nigh,\nAnd danger in the valley,\n And anger in the sky,\n\nAround the huddling homesteads\n The leafless timber roars,\nAnd the dead call the dying\n And finger at the doors.\n\nOh, yonder faltering fingers\n Are hands I used to hold;\nTheir false companion drowses\n And leaves them in the cold.\n\nOh, to the bed of ocean,\n To Africk and to Ind,\nI will arise and follow\n Along the rainy wind.\n\nThe night goes out and under\n With all its train forlorn;\nHues in the east assemble\n And cocks crow up the morn.\n\nThe living are the living\n And dead the dead will stay,\nAnd I will sort with comrades\n That face the beam of day.", "metadata": { + "source": { + "title": "A Shropshire Lad", + "published": { + "year": 1896 + } + }, "context": { "month": "november" }, @@ -37870,6 +38648,12 @@ "title": "“In the Morning”", "body": "In the morning, in the morning,\n In the happy field of hay,\nOh they looked at one another\n By the light of day.\n\nIn the blue and silver morning\n On the haycock as they lay,\nOh they looked at one another\n And they looked away.", "metadata": { + "source": { + "title": "A Shropshire Lad", + "published": { + "year": 1896 + } + }, "context": { "season": "summer" }, @@ -37880,6 +38664,12 @@ "title": "“In valleys green and still …”", "body": "In valleys green and still\n Where lovers wander maying\nThey hear from over hill\n A music playing.\n\nBehind the drum and fife,\n Past hawthornwood and hollow,\nThrough earth and out of life\n The soldiers follow.\n\nThe soldier’s is the trade:\n In any wind or weather\nHe steals the heart of maid\n And man together.\n\nThe lover and his lass\n Beneath the hawthorn lying\nHave heard the soldiers pass,\n And both are sighing.\n\nAnd down the distance they\n With dying note and swelling\nWalk the resounding way\n To the still dwelling.", "metadata": { + "source": { + "title": "A Shropshire Lad", + "published": { + "year": 1896 + } + }, "context": { "season": "summer" }, @@ -37890,6 +38680,12 @@ "title": "“Into My Heart”", "body": "Into my heart an air that kills\nFrom yon far country blows:\nWhat are those blue remembered hills,\nWhat spires, what farms are those?\n\nThat is the land of lost content,\nI see it shining plain,\nThe happy highways where I went\nAnd cannot come again.", "metadata": { + "source": { + "title": "A Shropshire Lad", + "published": { + "year": 1896 + } + }, "language": "english" } }, @@ -37897,6 +38693,12 @@ "title": "“Is My Team Ploughing”", "body": "“Is my team ploughing,\nThat I was used to drive\nAnd hear the harness jingle\nWhen I was man alive?”\n\nAy, the horses trample,\nThe harness jingles now;\nNo change though you lie under\nThe land you used to plough.\n\n“Is football playing\nAlong the river shore,\nWith lads to chase the leather,\nNow I stand up no more?”\n\nAy, the ball is flying,\nThe lads play heart and soul;\nThe goal stands up, the keeper\nStands up to keep the goal.\n\n“Is my girl happy,\nThat I thought hard to leave,\nAnd has she tired of weeping\nAs she lies down at eve?”\n\nAy, she lies down lightly,\nShe lies not down to weep,\nYour girl is well contented.\nBe still, my lad, and sleep.\n\n“Is my friend hearty,\nNow I am thin and pine,\nAnd has he found to sleep in\nA better bed than mine?”\n\nYes, lad, I lie easy,\nI lie as lads would choose;\nI cheer a dead man’s sweetheart,\nNever ask me whose.", "metadata": { + "source": { + "title": "A Shropshire Lad", + "published": { + "year": 1896 + } + }, "language": "english" } }, @@ -37904,6 +38706,12 @@ "title": "“The Lent Lilly”", "body": "’Tis spring; come out to ramble\nThe hilly brakes around,\nFor under thorn and bramble\n\nAbout the hollow ground\nThe primroses are found.\nAnd there’s the windflower chilly\nWith all the winds at play,\nAnd there’s the Lenten lily\nThat has not long to stay\nAnd dies on Easter day.\n\nAnd since till girls go maying\nYou find the primrose still,\nAnd find the windflower playing\nWith every wind at will,\nBut not the daffodil,\n\nBring baskets now, and sally\nUpon the spring’s array,\nAnd bear from hill and valley\nThe daffodil away\nThat dies on Easter day.", "metadata": { + "source": { + "title": "A Shropshire Lad", + "published": { + "year": 1896 + } + }, "context": { "liturgy": "lent" }, @@ -37914,6 +38722,12 @@ "title": "“The Oracles”", "body": "’Tis mute, the word they went to hear on high Dodona mountain\n When winds were in the oakenshaws and all the cauldrons tolled,\nAnd mute’s the midland navel-stone beside the singing fountain,\n And echoes list to silence now where gods told lies of old.\n\nI took my question to the shrine that has not ceased from speaking,\n The heart within, that tells the truth and tells it twice as plain;\nAnd from the cave of oracles I heard the priestess shrieking\n That she and I should surely die and never live again.\n\nOh priestess, what you cry is clear, and sound good sense I think it;\n But let the screaming echoes rest, and froth your mouth no more.\n’Tis true there’s better boose than brine, but he that drowns must drink it;\n And oh, my lass, the news is news that men have heard before.\n\nThe King with half the East at heel is marched from lands of morning;\n Their fighters drink the rivers up, their shafts benight the air.\nAnd he that stands will die for nought, and home there’s no returning.\n The Spartans on the sea-wet rock sat down and combed their hair.", "metadata": { + "source": { + "title": "A Shropshire Lad", + "published": { + "year": 1896 + } + }, "language": "english" } }, @@ -37921,6 +38735,12 @@ "title": "“The Rain”", "body": "The rain, it streams on stone and hillock,\n The boot clings to the clay.\nSince all is done that’s due and right\nLet’s home; and now, my lad, good-night,\n For I must turn away.\n\nGood-night, my lad, for nought’s eternal;\n No league of ours, for sure.\nTomorrow I shall miss you less,\nAnd ache of heart and heaviness\n Are things that time should cure.\n\nOver the hill the highway marches\n And what’s beyond is wide:\nOh soon enough will pine to nought\nRemembrance and the faithful thought\n That sits the grave beside.\n\nThe skies, they are not always raining\n Nor grey the twelvemonth through;\nAnd I shall meet good days and mirth,\nAnd range the lovely lands of earth\n With friends no worse than you.\n\nBut oh, my man, the house is fallen\n That none can build again;\nMy man, how full of joy and woe\nYour mother bore you years ago\n To-night to lie in the rain.", "metadata": { + "source": { + "title": "A Shropshire Lad", + "published": { + "year": 1896 + } + }, "language": "english" } }, @@ -37928,6 +38748,12 @@ "title": "“Sinner’s Rue”", "body": "I walked alone and thinking,\n And faint the nightwind blew\nAnd stirred on mounds at crossways\n The flower of sinner’s rue.\n\nWhere the roads part they bury\n Him that his own hand slays,\nAnd so the weed of sorrow\n Springs at the four cross ways.\n\nBy night I plucked it hueless,\n When morning broke ’twas blue:\nBlue at my breast I fastened\n The flower of sinner’s rue.\n\nIt seemed a herb of healing,\n A balsam and a sign,\nFlower of a heart whose trouble\n Must have been worse than mine.\n\nDead clay that did me kindness,\n I can do none to you,\nBut only wear for breastknot\n The flower of sinner’s rue.", "metadata": { + "source": { + "title": "A Shropshire Lad", + "published": { + "year": 1896 + } + }, "context": { "liturgy": "lent" }, @@ -37938,6 +38764,12 @@ "title": "“Spring Morning”", "body": "Star and coronal and bell\n April underfoot renews,\nAnd the hope of man as well\n Flowers among the morning dews.\n\nNow the old come out to look,\n Winter past and winter’s pains.\nHow the sky in pool and brook\n Glitters on the grassy plains.\n\nEasily the gentle air\n Wafts the turning season on;\nThings to comfort them are there,\n Though ’tis true the best are gone.\n\nNow the scorned unlucky lad\n Rousing from his pillow gnawn\nMans his heart and deep and glad\n Drinks the valiant air of dawn.\n\nHalf the night he longed to die,\n Now are sown on hill and plain\nPleasures worth his while to try\n Ere he longs to die again.\n\nBlue the sky from east to west\n Arches, and the world is wide,\nThough the girl he loves the best\n Rouses from another’s side.", "metadata": { + "source": { + "title": "A Shropshire Lad", + "published": { + "year": 1896 + } + }, "context": { "month": "april" }, @@ -37948,6 +38780,12 @@ "title": "“Tell Me Not Here”", "body": "Tell me not here, it needs not saying,\n What tune the enchantress plays\nIn aftermaths of soft September\n Or under blanching mays,\nFor she and I were long acquainted\n And I knew all her ways.\n\nOn russet floors, by waters idle,\n The pine lets fall its cone;\nThe cuckoo shouts all day at nothing\n In leafy dells alone;\nAnd traveler’s joy beguiles in autumn\n Hearts that have lost their own.\n\nOn acres of the seeded grasses\n The changing burnish heaves;\nOr marshalled under moons of harvest\n Stand still all night the sheaves;\nOr beeches strip in storms for winter\n And stain the wind with leaves.\n\nPossess, as I possessed a season,\n The countries I resign,\nWhere over elmy plains the highway\n Would mount the hills and shine,\nAnd full of shade the pillared forest\n Would murmur and be mine.\n\nFor nature, heartless, witless nature,\n Will neither care nor know\nWhat stranger’s feet may find the meadow\n And trespass there and go,\nNor ask amid the dews of morning\n If they are mine or no.", "metadata": { + "source": { + "title": "A Shropshire Lad", + "published": { + "year": 1896 + } + }, "context": { "month": "october", "month_epoch": "early" @@ -37959,6 +38797,12 @@ "title": "“The West”", "body": "Beyond the moor and the mountain crest\n--Comrade, look not on the west--\nThe sun is down and drinks away\nFrom air and land the lees of day.\n\nThe long cloud and the single pine\nSentinel the ending line,\nAnd out beyond it, clear and wan,\nReach the gulfs of evening on.\n\nThe son of woman turns his brow\nWest from forty countries now,\nAnd, as the edge of heaven he eyes,\nThinks eternal thoughts, and sighs.\n\nOh wide’s the world, to rest or roam,\nWith change abroad and cheer at home,\nFights and furloughs, talk and tale,\nCompany and beef and ale.\n\nBut if I front the evening sky\nSilent on the west look I,\nAnd my comrade, stride for stride,\nPaces silent at my side,\n\nComrade, look not on the west:\n’Twill have the heart out of your breast;\n’Twill take your thoughts and sink them far,\nLeagues beyond the sunset bar.\n\nOh lad, I fear that yon’s the sea\nWhere they fished for you and me,\nAnd there, from whence we both were ta’en,\nYou and I shall drown again.\n\nSend not on your soul before\nTo dive from that beguiling shore,\nAnd let not yet the swimmer leave\nHis clothes upon the sands of eve.\n\nToo fast to yonder strand forlorn\nWe journey, to the sunken bourn,\nTo flush the fading tinges eyed\nBy other lads at eventide.\n\nWide is the world, to rest or roam,\nAnd early ’tis for turning home:\nPlant your heel on earth and stand,\nAnd let’s forget our native land.\n\nWhen you and I are split on air\nLong we shall be strangers there;\nFriends of flesh and bone are best;\nComrade, look not on the west.", "metadata": { + "source": { + "title": "A Shropshire Lad", + "published": { + "year": 1896 + } + }, "language": "english" } }, @@ -37966,6 +38810,12 @@ "title": "“We’ll to the woods no more …”", "body": "We’ll to the woods no more,\nThe laurels are all cut,\nThe bowers are bare of bay\nThat once the Muses wore;\nThe year draws in the day\nAnd soon will evening shut:\nThe laurels all are cut,\nWe’ll to the woods no more.\nOh we’ll no more, no more\nTo the leafy woods away,\nTo the high wild woods of laurel\nAnd the bowers of bay no more.", "metadata": { + "source": { + "title": "A Shropshire Lad", + "published": { + "year": 1896 + } + }, "context": { "holiday": "autumn_equinox" }, @@ -37973,9 +38823,15 @@ } }, "when-summers-end-is-nighing": { - "title": "“When Summer’s End is Nighing”", + "title": "“When summer’s end is nighing …”", "body": "When summer’s end is nighing\n And skies at evening cloud,\nI muse on change and fortune\n And all the feats I vowed\n When I was young and proud.\n\nThe weathercock at sunset\n Would lose the slanted ray,\nAnd I would climb the beacon\n That looked to Wales away\n And saw the last of day.\n\nFrom hill and cloud and heaven\n The hues of evening died;\nNight welled through lane and hollow\n And hushed the countryside,\n But I had youth and pride.\n\nAnd I with earth and nightfall\n In converse high would stand,\nLate, till the west was ashen\n And darkness hard at hand,\n And the eye lost the land.\n\nThe year might age, and cloudy\n The lessening day might close,\nBut air of other summers\n Breathed from beyond the snows,\n And I had hope of those.\n\nThey came and were and are not\n And come no more anew;\nAnd all the years and seasons\n That ever can ensue\n Must now be worse and few.\n\nSo here’s an end of roaming\n On eves when autumn nighs:\nThe ear too fondly listens\n For summer’s parting sighs,\n And then the heart replies.", "metadata": { + "source": { + "title": "Last Poems", + "published": { + "year": 1922 + } + }, "context": { "holiday": "autumn_equinox" }, @@ -37986,6 +38842,12 @@ "title": "“When the eye of day is shut …”", "body": "When the eye of day is shut,\n And the stars deny their beams,\nAnd about the forest hut\n Blows the roaring wood of dreams,\n\nFrom deep clay, from desert rock,\n From the sunk sands of the main,\nCome not at my door to knock,\n Hearts that loved me not again.\n\nSleep, be still, turn to your rest\n In the lands where you are laid;\nIn far lodgings east and west\n Lie down on the beds you made.\n\nIn gross marl, in blowing dust,\n In the drowned ooze of the sea,\nWhere you would not, lie you must,\n Lie you must, and not with me.", "metadata": { + "source": { + "title": "A Shropshire Lad", + "published": { + "year": 1896 + } + }, "language": "english" } }, @@ -37993,6 +38855,12 @@ "title": "“Yonder see the morning blink …”", "body": "Yonder see the morning blink:\n The sun is up, and up must I,\nTo wash and dress and eat and drink\nAnd look at things and talk and think\n And work, and God knows why.\n\nOh often have I washed and dressed\n And what’s to show for all my pain?\nLet me lie abed and rest:\nTen thousand times I’ve done my best\n And all’s to do again.", "metadata": { + "source": { + "title": "A Shropshire Lad", + "published": { + "year": 1896 + } + }, "language": "english" } }, @@ -38000,6 +38868,12 @@ "title": "“You Know No More than I”", "body": "The half-moon westers low, my love,\n And the wind brings up the rain;\nAnd wide apart lie we, my love,\n And seas between the twain.\n\nI know not if it rains, my love,\n In the land where you do lie;\nAnd oh, so sound you sleep, my love,\n You know no more than I.", "metadata": { + "source": { + "title": "A Shropshire Lad", + "published": { + "year": 1896 + } + }, "language": "english" } }, @@ -38007,6 +38881,12 @@ "title": "“The night is freezing fast …”", "body": "The night is freezing fast,\n To-morrow comes December;\n And winterfalls of old\nAre with me from the past;\n And chiefly I remember\n How Dick would hate the cold.\n\nFall, winter, fall; for he,\n Prompt hand and headpiece clever,\n Has woven a winter robe,\nAnd made of earth and sea\n His overcoat for ever,\n And wears the turning globe.", "metadata": { + "source": { + "title": "A Shropshire Lad", + "published": { + "year": 1896 + } + }, "context": { "month": "november", "day": 30 @@ -38018,6 +38898,12 @@ "title": "“The sigh that heaves the grasses …”", "body": "The sigh that heaves the grasses\n Whence thou wilt never rise\nIs of the air that passes\n And knows not if it sighs.\n\nThe diamond tears adorning\n Thy low mound on the lea,\nThose are the tears of morning,\n That weeps, but not for thee.", "metadata": { + "source": { + "title": "A Shropshire Lad", + "published": { + "year": 1896 + } + }, "language": "english" } }, @@ -38025,6 +38911,12 @@ "title": "“The sloe was lost in flower …”", "body": "The sloe was lost in flower,\n The April elm was dim;\nThat was the lover’s hour,\n The hour for lies and him.\n\nIf thorns are all the bower,\n If north winds freeze the fir,\nWhy, ’tis another’s hour,\n The hour for truth and her.", "metadata": { + "source": { + "title": "A Shropshire Lad", + "published": { + "year": 1896 + } + }, "context": { "month": "april" }, @@ -38037,13 +38929,14 @@ "metadata": { "name": "Walsham How", "gender": "male", + "college": null, + "movement": null, "religion": null, "nationality": "english", "language": "english", "link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walsham_How", "favorite": true, "tags": [ - "", "english" ], "birth": { @@ -38079,13 +38972,14 @@ "metadata": { "name": "Andrew Hudgins", "gender": "male", + "college": null, + "movement": null, "religion": null, "nationality": "american", "language": "english", "link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Hudgins", "favorite": true, "tags": [ - "", "american" ], "birth": { @@ -38136,13 +39030,14 @@ "metadata": { "name": "Langston Hughes", "gender": "male", + "college": null, + "movement": null, "religion": null, "nationality": "american", "language": "english", "link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langston_Hughes", "favorite": true, "tags": [ - "", "american" ], "birth": { @@ -38179,13 +39074,14 @@ "metadata": { "name": "Ted Hughes", "gender": "male", + "college": null, + "movement": null, "religion": null, "nationality": "english", "language": "english", "link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Hughes", "favorite": true, "tags": [ - "", "english" ], "birth": { @@ -38260,13 +39156,14 @@ "metadata": { "name": "Victor Hugo", "gender": "male", + "college": null, + "movement": null, "religion": null, "nationality": "french", "language": "french", "link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Hugo", "favorite": true, "tags": [ - "", "french" ], "birth": { @@ -38340,13 +39237,14 @@ "metadata": { "name": "T. 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It is no use pretending\nthe summer can last forever;\nno one wants it to.\nWe are tired of the sea and sailboats, we are tired of cold consommé\non terraces,\nwe are tired of wearing shorts\nand of sleeping after lunch.\nLet us face the fact\nthat the days are growing shorter and the evenings are getting cool.\nIt is time now to think of\ntrains, old tunes, blankets, and friends. 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