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==Longfellow==
 
==Longfellow==
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Excelsior, https://www.bartleby.com/102/62.html Excelsior:
 
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THE SHADES of night were falling fast, <br>
 
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==Millay==
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Dirge Without Music, https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52773/dirge-without-music
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I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground. <br>
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So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind: <br>
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Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely.  Crowned <br>
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With lilies and with laurel they go; but I am not resigned....}}
  
 
==Langdon Smith==
 
==Langdon Smith==

Revision as of 16:54, 19 January 2021

Baudelaire

Harmonie du soir, https://fleursdumal.org/poem/142

Voici venir les temps où vibrant sur sa tige
Chaque fleur s'évapore ainsi qu'un encensoir;
Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l'air du soir;
Valse mélancolique et langoureux vertige! ...


Longfellow

Excelsior, https://www.bartleby.com/102/62.html Excelsior:

THE SHADES of night were falling fast,
As through an Alpine village passed
A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice,
A banner with the strange device,
Excelsior!...

Millay

Dirge Without Music, https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52773/dirge-without-music

I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.
So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind:
Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. Crowned
With lilies and with laurel they go; but I am not resigned....

Langdon Smith

Evolution ( https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/int/evolution.html; see also https://reason.com/volokh/2021/01/18/poetry-monday-evolution-by-langdon-smith/)

When you were a tadpole and I was a fish
In the Paleozoic time,
And side by side on the ebbing tide
We sprawled through the ooze and slime,
Or skittered with many a caudal flip
Through the depths of the Cambrian fen,
My heart was rife with the joy of life,
For I loved you even then…