I found you – Norah Wells
Your loud sobs
Healing a wound
Unfelt at its infliction
Looking for answers
I found you
coying with the same questions.
© Norah Wells 1971
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Herz, mein Herz! – Heinrich Heine
Herz, mein Herz, sei nicht bekommen
Und ertrage dein Geschick
Neuer Frühling giebt zurück
Was der Winter dir genommen
Und wie viel ist dir geblieben!
Und wie schön is noch die Welt!
Und mein Herz, was dir gefällt
Alles, alles darfst du lieben.
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Unfinished Quartet – Raymond Tester (1952-)
First
Mary went a-fishing on a summer’s day.
She took…
Second
This is a symbol, this is:
No two…
Third
There’s nowt so queer as folks.
Take…
Fourth
And on the bank they came to her,
.. joined
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Goe, and catch a falling starre – John Donne
Goe, and catch a falling starre,
Get with child a mandrake’s root,
Tell me, where all past years are,
Or who cleft the Divel’s foot,
Teach me to heare
Mermaids singing
Or to keep envies stinging,
And finde
What winde
Serves to’advance an honest mind.
If thou beest borne to strange sights,
Things invisible to see,
Ride ten thousand daies and nights,
Till age snow white haires on thee,
Thou, when thou retorn’st, wilt tell mee
All strange wonders, that befell thee,
And sweare
No where
Lives a woman true and fair.
If thou findst one, let mee know;
Such a pilgrimage were sweet;
Yet doe not, I would not goe,
Though at next door we might meet,
Though shee were true, when you met her,
And last, till you write your letter,
Yet shee
Will bee
False, ere I come, to – two or three.
Seraphine – Heinrich Heine
Schattenküsse, Schattenliebe,
Schattenleben, wunderbar!
Glaubst du, Narrin alles bliebe
Unverändet, ewig wahr?
Was wir lieblich fest bessessen,
Schwindet hin, wie Träumerein;
Und die Herzen, die vergessen,
Und die Augen schlafen ein.
sie schlafen ein.
Schattenküsse, Schattenliebe,
Schattenleben, wunderbar!
Glaubst du, Narrin alles, alles bliebe
Unverändet, ewig wahr?
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Sweetest love – John Donne
Sweetest love, I do not go
For in weariness of thee
Nor in hope the world can show
A fitter love for me
But since that I
Must die at last, ’tis best
to use my self in jest
thus by feigned death to die.
2 Yesternight the sun went hence,
And yet is here today,
He hath no desire nor sense,
Nor half so short a way:
Then fear not me,
But believe that I shall make
Speedier journeys, since I take
More wings and spurs than he.
3 O how feeble is man’s power
That if good fortune fall,
Cannot add another hour,
Nor a lost hour recall!
But come bad chance,
And we join to it our strength,
And we teach it art and length,
Itself o’er us to advance.
4 When thou sigh’st, thou sigh’st not wind,
But sigh’st my soul away,
When thou weep’st, unkindly kind,
My life’s blood doth decay.
It cannot be
That thou lov’st me, as thou say’st,
If in thine my life thou waste,
Thou art the best of me.
5 Let not thy divining heart
Forethink me any ill,
Destiny may take thy part,
And may thy tears fulfill;
But think that we
Are but turned aside to sleep;
They who one another keep
Alive, ne’er parted be.
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O Rose! Thou art sick! (*)
The Sick Rose
WIlliam Blake 28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827
O Rose, Thou art sick
The invisible worm
That flies in the night
that flies in, in the howling storm,
has found out thy bed of crimson joy:
And his dark secret love doth thy life destroy
Epitaph
Samuel T Coleridge 1772–1834
Stop, Christian passer by!
Stop, child of God,
And read with gentle breast:
Beneath this sod a poet lies,
or that which which once seemed he
O, lift one thought in prayer for S T C
That he who many a year with toil of breath
found death in life, may here find life in death!
Mercy for praise – to be forgiven for fame
He asked, and hoped, through Christ
Do thou the same!
Amen!
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Komm’, du süsse Todesstunde
Komm’, du süsse Todesstunde,
Da mein Geist, Da mein Geist Honig speist
aus des Löwen Munde
Mache meinen Abschied süsse
Säume nicht, letztes licht,
Dass ich meinen Heiland küsse.
Amen.
Salomon Franck 1659-1725
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Fragile is my flower – Jenny Chan
The petals of my flower are fragile
The stem breaks all to easily
And the leaves droop forlornly
At the sound of a few unkind words.
Please do not crush my flower under foot;
the blossom took so long to cultivate
Please do not crush the life therein.
Don’t trample on my emotions.
© Jenny Chan 1971
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