Section: «Poems»
Verse (ancient Greek ὁ στίχος — row, structure), a term in versification used in several meanings:
artistic speech organized by division into rhythmically commensurate segments; poetry in the narrow sense; in particular, it implies the properties of versification of a particular tradition ("antique verse", "Akhmatova's verse", etc.);
a line of poetic text organized according to a certain rhythmic pattern ("My uncle of the most honest rules").
The Phantom-Wooer
A ghost, that loved a lady fair,Ever in the starry airOf midnight at her pillow stood;And, with a sweetness skies aboveThe luring words of human..
© Thomas Lovell Beddoes
Dirge
We do lie beneath the grassIn the moonlight, in the shadeOf the yew-tree. They that passHear us not. We are afraidThey would envy our delight,In our..
© Thomas Lovell Beddoes
A Crocodile
Hard by the lilied Nile I sawA duskish river-dragon stretched along,The brown habergeon of his limbs enamelledWith sanguine almandines and rainy..
© Thomas Lovell Beddoes
Poor Old Pilgrim Misery ( Song )
Act I, scene 1, lines 141-60Poor old pilgrim Misery,Beneath the silent moon he sate,A-listening to the screech owl's cry,And the cold wind's goblin..
© Thomas Lovell Beddoes
From “torrismond” - In A Garden By Moonlight
Veronica. COME then, a song; a winding gentle song,To lead me into sleep. Let it be lowAs zephyr, telling secrets to his rose,For I would hear the..
© Thomas Lovell Beddoes
Thoughts
Sweet are the thoughts that haunt the poet’s brainLike rainbow-fringed clouds, through which some starPeeps in bright glory on a shepherd swain;They..
© Thomas Lovell Beddoes
A Rivulet
It is a lovely stream; its wavelets purlAs if they echoed to the fall and riseOf the capricious breeze; each upward curlThat splashes pearl, mirrors..
© Thomas Lovell Beddoes
Song Of The Stygian Naiades
Proserpine may pull her flowers,Wet with dew or wet with tears,Red with anger, pale with fears;Is it any fault of ours,If Pluto be an amorous kingAnd..
© Thomas Lovell Beddoes
Dream-Pedlary (Excerpt)
If there were dreams to sell,What would you buy?Some cost a passing bell;Some a light sigh,That shakes from Life's fresh crownOnly a rose-leaf..
© Thomas Lovell Beddoes
The Swallow Leaves Her Nest
THE swallow leaves her nest,The soul my weary breast;But therefore let the rainOn my graveFall pure; for why complain?Since both will come againO'er..
© Thomas Lovell Beddoes
Song From Torrismond
How many times do I love thee, dear?Tell me how many thoughts there beIn the atmosphereOf a new-fall'n year,Whose white and sable hours appearThe..
© Thomas Lovell Beddoes
Let Dew The Flowers Fill
LET dew the flowers fill;No need of fell despair,Though to the grave you bearOne still of soul-but now too still,One fair-but now too fair.For..
© Thomas Lovell Beddoes
Song On The Water.
As mad sexton's bell, tollingFor earth's loveliest daughterNight's dumbness breaks rollingGhostily:So our boat breaks the waterWitchingly.As her look..
© Thomas Lovell Beddoes
The Old Ghost
Over the water an old ghost strodeTo a churchyard on the shore,And over him the waters had flowedA thousand years or more,And pale and wan and..
© Thomas Lovell Beddoes
Sonnet - To Tartar, A Terrier Beauty
Snowdrop of dogs, with ear of brownest dye,Like the last orphan leaf of naked treeWhich shudders in black autumn; though by thee,Of hearing careless..
© Thomas Lovell Beddoes
Song From The Second Brother
STREW not earth with empty stars,Strew it not with roses,Nor feathers from the crest of Mars,Nor summer's idle posies.'Tis not the primrose-sandalled..
© Thomas Lovell Beddoes
Old Adam, The Carrion Crow
Old Adam, the carrion crow,The old crow of Cairo;He sat in the shower, and let it flowUnder his tail and over his crest;And through every..
© Thomas Lovell Beddoes
The Rosy Hour
And in that rosy rosy hour,When bird sang out and scented flower,Came words to me from heaven above:'Awake, young heart, awake and love!'
© Thomas Lovell Beddoes
Lines Written In A Blank Leaf Of The ‘prometheus Unbound’
Write it in gold - a Spirit of the sun,An Intellect ablaze with heavenly thoughts,A soul with all the dews of pathos shining,Odorous with love, and..
© Thomas Lovell Beddoes
A Cypress-Bough, And A Rose-Wreath Sweet ( Song )
Act IV, scene iiiA cypress-bough and a rose-wreath sweet,A wedding robe, and a winding-sheet,A bridal bed and a bier.Thine be the kisses, maid,And..
© Thomas Lovell Beddoes
Song: Yes, Mary Ann
Yes, Mary Ann, I freely grant,The charms of Henry's eyes I see;But while I gaze, I something want,I want those eyes -- to gaze on me.And I allow, in..
© Thomas Lovell Beddoes
A Ho! A Ho! (Song )
Act II Scene ii, lines 26-55A ho! A ho!Love's horn doth blow,And he will out a-hawking go.His shafts are light as beauty's sighs,And bright as..
© Thomas Lovell Beddoes
To Sea! To Sea!
TO sea, to sea! The calm is o'er;The wanton water leaps in sport,And rattles down the pebbly shore;The dolphin wheels, the sea-cow snorts,And unseen..
© Thomas Lovell Beddoes
Resurrection Song.
Thread the nerves through the right holes;Get out of my bones, you wormy souls.Shut up my stomach, the ribs are full;Muscles be steady and ready to..
© Thomas Lovell Beddoes
If Thou Wilt Ease Thine Heart
IF thou wilt ease thine heartOf love, and all its smart,-Then sleep, dear, sleep!And not a sorrowHang any tear on your eyelashes;Lie still and..
© Thomas Lovell Beddoes