 | The Soul is here for its own joy : sacred poems from many cultures by Robert Bly | DromJohn | Starting on the path, The Footprint, Ghalib, Sunset, Rainer Maria Rilke, The Name, Tomas Tranströmer, We thirst at first, Emily Dickinson, from Like to the arctic needle, Francis Quarles, This cloud, Dogen, Lord you called, Anonymous, In this town, A Remembrance is moving, Juan Ramón Jiménez, The Scattered congregation, Friend it's time, Ansari, A Voice, William Butler Yeats, Maybe, Mary Oliver, As kingfishers catch fire, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Written on a monastery wall, Li Shang-Yin, Our journey had advanced, The Starlight night, Sometimes a man, Rainbow at night, Antonio Machado, Longing for the garden, Heaven-haven: a nun takes the veil, from The Garden, Andrew Marvell, Is my soul asleep?, The Dweller, Robert Bly, If you could turn your heart, Angelius Silesius, O God our help in ages past, Isaac Watts, Remorse, Whoever grasps, I have many brothers in the south, It is an honorable thought, Introduction, William Blake, Jerusalem, The Habit of perfection, The wind one brilliant day, Sorrow it is not true that I know you, The Pulley, George Herbert, from The Hymn of Jesus, From the Acts of John, Loss of memory, Kathleen Raine, God's grandeur, Pied beauty, I'm ceded -- I've stopped being their's --, Come to the orchard in spring, Rumi, The Question of greed and constant hunger, Breaking the dragon, A Small green island, The Snake-catcher and the frozen snake, Bread, The Animal soul, Four questions, Lalla, Men and women now, Sometimes I forget completely, from Divine meditations: Sonnet I, John Donne, Raise me up lord, Miguel de Guevara, I was a stricken deer, William Cowper, Jesus on the lean donkey, Who makes these changes? Rumi, Difficulties, Kabir, What I said to the wanting-creature, And where is he?, Twenty poems of Kabir, The Flute, The Spinning wheel, The Time before death, The Hearse, The Caller, The Pitcher, The Failure, The Swan, The Cloth, Breath, Music, The Clay jug, The Swing, The Unknown flute, The Sound, Why should we part!, A Place to sit, Rice, Sound of seashells, The Boat, God is the feminine, To nature, Orphic hymn, You are the future, Prayer to the mother, Apuleius, White buffalo woman, John G. Neihardt, I sing of a maiden, For the flowers are great blessings, Christopher Smart, To Aphrodite of the flowers at Knossos, Sappho, Lord help me, French medieval prayer, from Random thoughts on the love of God, Simone Weil, The Red goddess (Laksmi), from Hymn to Tirumal, There is a lake, Your way of knowing, You were once a swan, The Goddess, Théodore de Banville, To Juan at the winter solstice, Robert Graves, Love's maturity, Hadewijch of Antwerp, Knowing love in herself, Briefly it enters and briefly speaks, Jane Kenyon, Sonnet XII, Edna St. Vincent Millay, The Mysterious remain, H. D., A Flower no more than itself, Linda Gregg, There is no one, Edith Södergran, Lay your head, Lakshminkara, How shall I begin my song?, Owl Woman, In praise of Sophia, from Proverbs 3:11-20, A Herd of Does, Hugh MacDiarmid, urj, urs, dsp |
 | The Rag and bone shop of the heart : poems for men by Robert Bly | DromJohn | Approach to wildness, Danse Russe, William Carlos Williams, Smell!, Crazy dog events, Jerome Rothenberg, Four quatrains, Rumi, Much madness is divinest sense, Emily Dickinson, Notebook to a return to the native land, Aimé Césaire, Bread and wine, Friedrich Hölderlin, Has anyone see the boy?, The Will to believe, William James, Proverbs from hell, William Blake, Middle of the way, Galway Kinnell, The Wild mallard thought, Henry David Thoreau, The Wild man comes to the monastery, Song of a man who has come through, D. H. Lawrence, Knowing nothing shuts the iron gates, Kabir, In a dark time, Theodore Roethke, Little infinite poem, Federico García Lorca, The Wild old wicked man, William Butler Yeats, Song of the Cuban blacks, Advice, Bill Holm, Father's prayers for sons and daughters, With Kit age 7 at the beach, William Stafford, A Story, Li-Young Lee, A Prayer for my son, On the beach at Fontana, James Joyce, In the third month, David Ray, On my first son, Ben Jonson, The Idea of ancestry, Etheridge Knight, Mean an birth: the unexplainable, Haki R. Madhubuti, Lastness, Changing diapers, Gary Snyder, At the washing of my son, from A Prayer for my daughter, A Flower given to my daughter, An Ark for Lawrence Durrell, Robert Duncan, The Turtle, Boy at the window, Richard Wilbur, For my son Noah ten years old, Robert Bly, After making love we hear footsteps, Sometimes a man stands up during supper, Rainer Maria Rilke, A Story that could be true, War, Miguel Hernandez, The Man from Washington, James Welch, Rundown church, Federico Garcia Lorca, Dulce et decorum est, Wilfred Owen, Postcard, Miklós Radnóti, Dry loaf, Wallace Stevens, Ode for the American dead in Asia, Thomas McGrath, Words for my daughter, John Balaban, To President Bush at the start of the Gulf War, Becoming Milton, Coleman Barks, from The Homeric hymn to Ares, George Patton, from Lessons of the war, Henry Reed, Big dream little dream, Louis Simpson, Do not weep maiden for war is kind, Stephen Crane, The Colonel, Carolyn Forché, Keeping their world large, Marianne Moore, Passing an orchard by train, I know the Earth and I am sad, The Wind one brilliant day, Antonio Machado, Sonnets to Orpheus IV, The Negro speaks of rivers, Langston Hughes, Rain, Vachel Lindsay, Melancholy inside families, Pablo Neruda, Walking around, No more auction block, Spiritual, I felt a funeral in my brain, The Day Lady died, Frank O'Hara, Sonnets to Orpheus VIII, Sunflower, Rolf Jacobsen, Snowbanks north of the house, Healing, Come in, Robert Frost, I am going to speak of hope, César Vallejo, And what if after so many words, The House of fathers and titans, For brothers what are we?, Thomas Wolfe, from Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville, The Bones of my father, from Theogony, Hesiod, Saturn, Sharon Olds, The Guild, My Papa's waltz, American primitive, William Jay Smith, My Father's wedding, The Portrait, Stanley Kunitz, The Core of masculinity, The Gift, The Weight of Sweetness, Li-Young-Lee, Only when my heart freezes, Alden Nowlan, Those winter Sundays, Robert Hayden, My father went to funerals, Howard Nelson, Offering, The Distant footsteps, Yesterday, W. S. Merwin, from Memories of my father, The Race, The Irish cliffs of Moher, Language: speaking well and speaking out, Magic words, Eskimo, The Mind, Trobriands, Songs are thoughts, Orpingalik, On being extravagant, from Gargantua, François Rabelais, from The Havana lectures, Poetry is a destructive force, In my craft of sullen art, Dylan Thomas, On the words in poetry, Sound-posture, Amergin and Cessair, Traditional, from Canto LXXXI, Ezra Pound, Sonnet LXV, William Shakespeare, To autumn, John Keats, On the writing of poetry, Thoughts, Gerhart Hauptmann, Samuel Johnson, William Wordsworth, Selections, These days, Charles Olson, American poetry, Catch, Robert Francis, Pitcher, Library, Louis Jenkins, from Standing up, Tomas Tranströmer, from The Man with the blue guitar, from Autobiography of Charles Darwin, Making a hole in denial, The Inner part, Miniver Cheevy, Edward Arlington Robinson, Next to of course God America I, E. E. Cummings, We real cool, Gwendolyn Brooks, Twenty-first night Monday, Anna Akhmatova, The Invisible king, Goethe, Darkmotherscream, Andrei Voznesensky, Empty warriors, On the yard, A Poem some people will have to understand, Amiri Baraka, Animals are passing from our lives, Philip Levine, It is this way with men, C. K. Williams, The War prayer, Mark Twain, The Second coming, A First on tv, David Ignatow, Sunday at the state hospital, No theory, Funeral Eva, Koroneu, Crazy Jane tales with the bishop, William Butler Years, Design, Have you anything to say in your defense?, The Spider, Loving the community and work, A Ritual to read to each other, Throw yourself like seed, Miguel de Unamuno, Until one is committed, Just as the winged energy of delight, Work, Gyula Illyés, Lamb, Michael Dennis Browne, Why log drivers rise earlier than students of zen, All the fruit, New York, To the states, Walt Whitman, Heraclitus, What happened during the ice storm, Jim Heynen, The Flying eagles of Troop 62, James Wright, Waxwings, For Eli Jacobson, Kenneth Rexroth, Epitaph, Death, Kuba, The Naïve male, Which one is genuine?, Charles Baudelaire, Onion, Katha Pollitt, A Story about the body, Robert Hass, The Rites of manhood, He loved three things, When the father is absent, James Hillman, The Black hairs, Heinz Pasman, The Indian serenade, Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Good deeds of the moon, In a tavern, Faith, Czeslaw Milosz, from Song of myself, Across the swamp, Olav H. Hauge, Peer Gynt tells his mother about his newest adventure, Henrik Ibsen, The Hopeful spiritual athlete, How much is not true, The Second layer: anger hatred outrage, The Black riders, The Twins, James Stephens, Indeed indeed I cannot tell, I stand here do you understand, Hatred, Gwendolyn Bennett, Ribh considers Christian love insufficient, Lines for an old man, T. S. Eliot, The Hill, Robert Creeley, The Anger that breaks the man into children, The Man watching, Fire on the hills, Robinson Jeffers, The Song of the black bear, Navajo, A Poison tree, The English are so nice!, Mine enemy is growing old, The Ascensions, William Pillin, The United Fruit Co., The White city, Claude McKay, Harlem, Fire and ice, Earthly love, Diogenes, The Mole, Al-Muntafil, The Guest, Three quatrains, A Glimpse, Body of a woman, & balls, Anne McNaughton, O wha's the bride?, Hugh MacDiarmid, Greed and aggression, Gentlemen without company, Last gods, Cocks and mares, Ruth Stone, I knew a woman, Food of love, Carolyn Kizer, Feeding the dog, Russell Edson, I wrung my hands under my dark veil, To women as far as I'm concerned, Intimates, Ballad of the despairing husband, All that is lovely in men, Separation by death, The Impulse, Grief, Gaius Valerius Catullus, The River-merchant's wife: a letter, We must die because we have known them, A Marriage, And if he had been wrong for me, Listening to the Köln concert, Once I passed through a populous city, History, A Coal fire in winter, The Cultivated heart, The Song of wandering Aengus, New love and the gentle heart, Dante, As I was walking, from Moral proverbs and folk songs, I am not I, Juan Ramón Jiménez, The One who is at home, Francisco Albanez, To be a slave of intensity, Archaic torso of Apollo, Someone digging in the ground, Last night, Portrait, Names, That journeys are good, Advice from Heraclitus, Advice from Pythagoras, The Waking, The Holy longing, Mother and great mothers, Cherries, Joe Lamb, From childhood, Mother and son, Alden Newlan, from My mother would be a falconress, The Right meaning, Kaddish, Sonnet to my mother, George Barker, In memory of my mother, Patrick Kavanagh, The Last words of my English grandmother, I am asking you to come back home, Jo Carson, Kore, An Ethiopian woman, To Juan at the winter solstice, Robert Graves, The Thief, What I heard at the discount department store, David Budbill, The Witch, Santal, The Goddess, Théodore de Banville, Ego Tripping, Nikki Giovanni, Birds nest, Gloria Fuertes, Old woman nature, The Spindrift gaze toward paradise, Conversation in the mountains, Li Po, I think continually of those, Stephen Spender, I live my life, A Walk, Milkweed, The Invisible men, Nakasak, Three angels, Bob Dylan, Guardian angel, A Man lost by a river, Michael Blumenthal, The Scattered congregation, The Secret, Charles Bukowski, The Dream, Felix Pollak, The Light you give off, Leda, A Blessing, Two years later, John Wieners, The Guest is inside, Say yes quickly, The New rule, Wild nights -- wild nights!, Safe in their alabaster chambers, Sailing to Byzantium, from Voyages II, Hart Crane, Zaniness, Necessity, Walking through a wall, Football, The Leaves of heaven, Ed Sanders, Confessional poem, Appointed rounds, Quinn the Eskimo, Red lip, Richard Brautigan, from A Thousand Chinese dinners, Robert Mezey, Welcome back Mr. Knight: love of my life, Freud talks the primal meal, Charles Boer, The Automobile, Ape, The Ox, High talk, Loving the world anyway, The World is too much with us, God's grandeur, Gerard Manley Hopkins, The Perfume / of flowers!, Grappa in September, César Pavese, Ode to my socks, The Delights of the door, Francis Ponge, The Bread of the world; praises III, Breast, Charles Simic, Wilderness, Carl Sandburg, O sweet spontaneous, West wall, Ripening, Wendell Berry, The Rain, Sometimes I go about pitying myself, Chippewa Music, Unity, Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca, Old song, Musée des Beaux Arts, W. H. Auden, The Earthworm, Harry Martinson, To Earthward, The Groundhog, Richard Eberhart, from A Dialogue of self and soul, from Vacillation, urj, urs, dsp |
 | The poems of William Blake by William Blake | DromJohn | Poetical sketches, To spring, To summer, To autumn, To winter, To the evening star, To Morning, Fair Eleanor, How sweet I roam'd from field to field, My silks and fine array, Love and harmony combine, I love the jocund dance, Memory hither come, Mad song, Fresh from the dewy hill the merry year, When early morn walks forth in sober gray, To the muses, Gwin king of Norway, An Imitation of Spenser, Blind man's buff, King Edward the Third, Prologue intended for a dramatic piece of King Edward the Fourth, Prologue to King John, A War song to Englishmen, The Couch of death, Contemplation, Samson, Song by a shepherd, Song by an old shepherd, Songs from An Island in the moon, Little Pheobus came strutting in, Honour and genius is all I ask, When old corruption first begun, Hear then the pride and knowledge of a sailor!, The Song of Phoebe and Jellicoe, Lo! the bat with leathern wing, Want matches?, As I walk'd forth one May morning, Hail matrimony made of love!, To be or not to be, This city and this country has brought forth many mayors, O I say you Joe, Leave o leave me to my sorrows, There's Doctor Clash, Songs of innocence and of experience, Songs of innocence, The Echoing green, The Lamb, The Shepherd, Infant joy, The Little black boy, Laughing song, Spring, A Cradle song, Nurse's song, Holy Thursday, The Blossom, The Chimney sweeper, The Divine image, Night, A Dream, On another's sorrow, The Little boy lost, The Little boy found, Songs of experience, Earth's answer, The Fly, The Tiger, The Little girl lost, The Little girl found, The Clod and the pebble, The Little vagabond, A Poison tree, The Angel, The Sick rose, To Tirzah, The Voice of the ancient bard, My pretty rose-tree, Ah! sun-flower, The Lily, The Garden of love, A Little boy lost, Infant sorrow, The Schoolboy, London, A Little girl lost, The Chimney-sweeper, The Human abstract, A Divine image, Poems from The Rossetti manuscript, Earlier poems, Never seek to tell thy love, I laid me down upon a bank, I saw a chapel all of gold, I asked a thief, I heard an angel singing, Silent silent night, I fear'd the fury of my wind, Why should I care for the men of Thames, Thou hast a lap full of seed, In a myrtle shade, To Nobodaddy, Are not the joys of morning sweeter, The Wild flower's song, Day, The Fairy, Motto to the Songs of innocence and of experience, Lafayette, A Fairy leapt upon my knee, Later poems, My spectre around me night and day, When Klopstock England defied, Mock on mock on Voltaire Rousseau, I saw a monk of Charlemaine, Morning, The Birds, You don't believe -- I won't attempt to make ye, If it is true what the prophets write, I will tell you what Joseph of Arimathea, Why was Cupid a boy, Now art has lost its mental charms, I rose up at the dawn of day, The Caverns of the grave I've seen, To the queen, The Everlasting gospel, The Pickering manuscript, The Smile, The Golden net, The Mental traveller, The Land of dreams, Mary, The Crystal cabinet, The Grey monk, Auguries of innocence, Long John Brown and little Mary Bell, William Bond, Poems from letters, To my dearest friend John Flaxman these lines, To my dear friend Mrs. Anna Flaxman, To Thomas Butts: To my friend Butts I write, To Mrs. Butts, To Thomas Butts: With happiness stretch'd across the hills, To Thomas Butts: O! why was I born with a different face?, Gnomic verses epigrams and short satirical pieces, Gnomic verses, Great things are done when men and mountain meet, To God, The said this mystery never shall cease, An Answer to the parson, Lacedaemonian instruction, Nail his neck to the cross: nail it with a nail, Love to faults is always blind, There souls of men are bought and sold, Soft snow, Abstinence sows sand all over, Merlin's prophecy, If you trap the moment before it's ripe, An Old maid early ere I knew, The Sword sung on the barren breath, O lapwing! thou fliest around the heath, Terror in the house does roar, Several questions answered, Eternity, The Look of love alarms, Soft deceit and idleness, What is it men in women do require, An Ancient proverb, If I e'er grow to man's estate, Since all the riches of this world, Riches, The Angel that presided o'er my birth, Grown old in love from seven till seven times seven, Do what you will this life's a fiction, On art and artists, Advice of the Popes who succeeded the age of Raphael, On the great encouragement given by the English nobility and gentry to Correggio Rubens Reynolds Gainsborough Catalani Du Crow and Dilbury Doodle, I asked my dear friend Orator Prig, O dear Mother Outline! of wisdom most sage, On the foundation of the Royal Academy, These are the idiots' chiefest arts, The Cripple every step drudges and labours, You say their pictures well painted be, When you look at a picture you always can see, The Washerwoman's song, English encouragement of art: Cronck's opinions put into rhyme, When I see a Rubens Rembrandt Correggio, Give pensions to the learned pig, On Sir Joshua Reynold's disappointment at his first impressions of Raphael, Sir Joshua praised Rubens with a smile, Sir Joshua praises Michael Angelo, Can there be anything more mean, To the Royal Academy, Florentine ingratitude, No real style of colouring ever appears, When Sir Joshua Reynolds died, A Pitiful case, On Sir Joshua Reynolds, I Rubens am a statesman and a saint, On the School of Rubens, To English connoisseurs, A Pretty epigram for the encouragement of those who have paid great sums in the Venetian and Flemish ooze, Raphael sublime majestic graceful wise, On the Venetian painter, A Pair of stays to mend the shape, Venetian! all thy colouring is no more, To Venetian artists, All pictures that's painted with sense and with thought, Call that the public voice which is their error!, On friends and foes, I am no Homer's hero you all know, Anger and wrath my bosom rends, If you play a game of chance know before you begin, Of Hayley's birth: Of H__'s birth this was the happy lot, On Hayley: To forgive enemies H__ does pretend, To Hayley: Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache, On Hayley's friendship: When H__y finds what you cannot do, On Hayley the pitchthank: I write the rascal thanks till he and I, My title as a genius thus is prov'd, To Flaxman: You call me mad 'tis folly to do so, To Flaxman: I mock thee not though I by thee am mocked, To Nancy Flaxman: I found them blind: I taught them how to see, To Stothard: You all your youth observ'd the golden rule, Cromek speaks: I always take my judgement from a fool, On Stothard: You say reserve and modesty he has, On Stotherd: S__ in childhood on the nursery floor, Mr. Stothard to Mr. Cromek: For fortune's favours you your riches bring, Mr. Cromek to Mr. Stothard: Fortune favours the brave old proverbs say, On Cromek: C__ loves artists as he loves his meat, On Cromek: A Pretty sneaking knave I knew, On P__: P__ loved me not as he lov'd his friends, On William Haines: The Sussex men are noted fools, On Fuseli: The only man that e'er I knew, To Hunt: 'Madman' I have been call'd, To Hunt: You think Fuseli is not a great painter, On certain mystics: Cosway Frazer and Baldwin of Egypt's lake, And his legs carried it like a long fork, For this is being a friend just in the nick, Was I angry with Hayley who us'd me so ill, Having given great offence by writing in prose, Miscellaneous epigrams, His whole life is an epigram smart smooth and neatly penn'd, He has observ'd the golden rule, And in melodious accents I, Some people admire the work of a fool, He's a blockhead who want a proof of what he can't perceive, Great men and fools do often me inspire, Some men created for destruction come, An Epitaph: Come knock you heads against this stone, Another: I was buried near this dyke, Another: Here lies John Trot the friend of all mankind, When France got free Europe 'twixt fools and knaves, On the virginity of the Virgin Mary and Johanna Southcott, Imitation of Pope: a compliment to the ladies, When a man has married a wife he finds out whether, To Chloe's breast young Cupid slyly stole, Tiriel, The Book of Thel, The Marriage of heaven and hell, The French Revolution, A Song of liberty, Visions of the daughters of Albion, America: a prophecy, Europe: a prophecy, The [First] book of Urizen, The Song of Los, The Book of Los, The Book of Ahania, Selections from 'The Four Zoas', Introduction to night the first, The Wanderer, A Vision of eternity, The Song sung at the Feast of Los and Enitharmon, The Song of Enitharmon over Los, The Wail of Enion, Winter, The Woes of Urizen in the dens of Urthona, Los in his wrath, The War-song of Orc, Vala's going forth, Urizen's words of wisdom, The Shade of Enitharmon, The Serpent orc, The Last judgement, The Lament of Albion, Accuser and accused, The Tillage of Urizen, Song of the sinless soul, Vala in lower paradise, Selections from 'Milton', Preface, The Invocation, The Mills of Satan, The Sin of Leutha, Milton's journey to eternal death, The Nature of infinity, The Sea of time and space, The Mundane shell, A River in Eden, Los, Swedenborg, Whitefield and Wesley, The Forge of Los, The Wine-press of Los, The Building of time, The Heavens and the Earth, The Birds and the flowers, Love and jealousy, Reason and imagination, The Song of the shadowy female, Selections from 'Jerusalem', To the public, Introduction, The Reasoning power, The Words of Los, The Builders of Golganooza, A Vision of Albion, Punishment and forgiveness, Jerusalem, To the Jews, A Female will, The Universal family, Man's spectre, Pretences, Fourfold and twofold vision, The Remembrance of sin, To the deists, Albion's spectre, The Holiness of minute particulars, A Vision of Joseph and Mary, Tirzah, The Warrior and the daughter of Albion, Men and states, To the Christians, A Vision of Jerusalem, The Worship of God, The Cry of Los, Albion upon the rock, The Wrath of God, The End of the song of Jerusalem, Verses from 'The Gates of paradise', Prologue, The Keys of the gates, Epilogue. To the accuser who is the god of this world, The Ghost of Abel, Appendix to the prophetic books, There is no natural religion, All religions are one, From Blake's engraving of Laocoon, On Homer's poetry, On Virgil, From Blake's 'Descriptive catalogue', Sir Geoffrey Chaucer and the nine and twenty pilgrims on their journey to Canterbury, urj, urs, dsp |
