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mirate la dottrina che s'asconde sotto 'I velame de li versi strani. Heed the doctrine hidden beneath the veil of these strange verses. --Dante Alighieri, Inferno One of the strangest [...]

Virginia round-leaf birch Remember Briar Rose in the castle tower Seized by brambles as was promised By the twelfth witch over the golden plate Denied her jealous sister who prophesied [...]

A poem "Vision in February" by Daniel Mark Epstein, is presented. First Line: Under the vault of light-blue; Last Line: and, leaving this body, fade into the forest.

The poem "Teetotum" reflects on the poet's sense of displacement and disorientation in a new environment, far from their familiar rivers and seas. The imagery of a spinning top symbolizes the uncertainty and unpredictability of life, with references to gambling games and childhood activities. The poet contemplates mortality and the unknown future, acknowledging the inevitability of death as a journey without a compass. [Extracted from the article]

The article focuses on the works of poet E. A. Robinson. It mentions that Robinson's first long poem and his last successful one both naturally take their inspiration from the life of art. It also mentions his "Captain Craig" is such a poem, a charming character sketch culminating in a sermon in which Craig is neither heroic nor tragic.

ORPHAN What was I looking for in that room Crowded with old books, shelves so full, It seemed they could not hold another title, Except where in places a weary [...]

THE PORTRAIT Her face hung white and empty as a spoon. She had resisted every breeze and flutter That shuffled dead air through the shutter, Propped up all morning in [...]

BOBOLINK You rise from dry meadowgrass With a laborious flutter, more Wing-action than the shortness of your flight Would seem to call for And so it seems obvious Flying for [...]

ON A THEME OF D'ALIBRAY Such a fine day rides on the soft air, Laura, please pay heed to the new season, That laughs at the clear sky and sings [...]

Curses after Mellin de Saint-Gelais May the Lord make you a pauper, A homeless old man without An ear of corn in the barn, not A bottle of wine in [...]

HE MAKES HIS MARK For Nathaniel Back when only holy men could write, The farmer or squire who signed himself With the letter X, St. Andrew's cross, Would bow and [...]

THE SUIT My grandfather, nineteen years of age, Falls from the pages of the unabridged Dictionary where I keep him pressed, A sepia print of him in his second suit, [...]

GRANDFATHER'S SPECTACLES He was not a brawler, or vain, But came up in a time and class Where a youth of exceptional beauty Had to prove himself--man to man-- Time [...]

PSALM OF PERNETT DU GILLET The night was so dark it had hidden heaven And earth from me. To my despair, At noon I could not see a human face, [...]

THE PURE GIFT In Memoriam LME On the hottest day that summer, a rainbow Arced over the clock-tower of the brick pile We call The Rotunda, a dying shopping mall [...]

OBSESSION I study the hours on an heirloom watch, Precious hours marked with diamonds That scatter the sunlight over the room. Since you left, I am obsessed with time, Unsure [...]

THE VIEW The scarlet torches of crape myrtle Crowd my window, kindled by the sun. Their thick foliage blocks my view Of all but the treetops and the sky. I [...]

THE CLOCKMAKER Time should be heard as well as seen, Says the clockmaker, carving a cuckoo bird. My wife gives the sick child his medicine. Who said children should be [...]

HEAVEN'S NEIGHBORS After Victor Hugo Death and Beauty, see how these goddesses cast So much light and shade, a sage might say They were sisters, both bountiful, frightful, vast, Guarding [...]

LULLABY I sang to each of my children When sleep came too slowly, The words of a mystery In a haunting minor tune: Open the door softly, I've something to [...]

OUTSIDE OF THIS Who finds heaven on earth will end in hell, Lovers have proven in a stolen year When pleasure fell in debt to future pain. There is joy [...]

THE CIRCLE DANCE Long shadows on the lawn Are all that's left of the night. Mars and the moon have gone Under cover of dawn light. Jenny, come down to [...]

GIFTS I gave her a golden locket To shut my portrait in. She filled it with a butterfly Wing the blue of Heaven And wore it until the day She [...]

OUT OF THE ASTRAL AIR Out of the astral air love visits us, Seeding the heart, spreading its blessings Abroad in life and song, like the lotus Pollen swans transport [...]

SUNLIGHT AND SILENCE Of all my worldly goods and society, Nothing is left but a table and chair, A lamp casting dim light on a dark book, And a grinning [...]

HOPE In winter the crescent moon vanishes So quickly in the blue, down the horizon, Between the starry darkness and morning, Like the hull of a ship without rigging That [...]