Archive for Poetries
Song form the Persian
by: Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1906)
H, sad are they who know not love,
But, far from passion’s tears and smiles,
Drift down a moonless sea, beyond
The silvery coasts of fairy isles.
And sadder they whose longing lips
Kiss empty air, and never touch
The dear warm mouth of those they love –
Waiting, wasting, suffering much.
But clear as amber, fine as musk,
Is [...]
The Dance of Life
by: Conrad Aiken (1889-1973)
RACIOUS and lovable and sweet,
She made his jaded pulses beat,
And made the glare of streets grow dim
And life more soft and hushed for him….
Over her shoulder now she smiled
Trustfully to him, like a child,
The while her fingers gayly moved
Alonge these white keys dearly loved,
Making them laugh a jocund measure,
Making them show and [...]
