The English in Virginia, April 1607BY CHARLES REZNIKOFFThey landed and could see nothing but meadows and tall trees—cypress, nearly three fathoms about at the roots,rising straight for sixty or eighty feet without a branch.In the woods were cedars, oaks, and walnut trees;some beech, some elm, black walnut, ash, and sassafras; mul- berry trees in groves;honey-suckleContinue reading “The English In Virginia, April 1607 : : April Poems : : Month Poems : :”
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April Midnight : Arthur Symons : ( 1 ) : Going To California : Jimmy Page / Robert Anthony Plant : Led Zeppelin IV Album ( 1971 ) : Lyrics Video ( 2 ) : : Led Zeppelin ( Earls Court London : Live 1975 ) : ( 3 ) : : April Poems : : Month Poems : :
https://youtu.be/7IZ-jATBq9A April MidnightBY ARTHUR SYMONSSide by side through the streets at midnight,Roaming together,Through the tumultuous night of London,In the miraculous April weather. Roaming together under the gaslight,Day’s work over,How the Spring calls to us, here in the city,Calls to the heart from the heart of a lover! Cool the wind blows, fresh in our faces,Cleansing,Continue reading “April Midnight : Arthur Symons : ( 1 ) : Going To California : Jimmy Page / Robert Anthony Plant : Led Zeppelin IV Album ( 1971 ) : Lyrics Video ( 2 ) : : Led Zeppelin ( Earls Court London : Live 1975 ) : ( 3 ) : : April Poems : : Month Poems : :”
The General Prologue : Geoffrey Chaucer : : April Poems : : Month Poems : :
The General Prologue’: The Very Beginning of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales : : in the original Middle English: : back to a spring more than six centuries ago. The General Prologue to Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales is one of the jewels in the crown of medieval English literature. From its opening lines extolling the virtuesContinue reading “The General Prologue : Geoffrey Chaucer : : April Poems : : Month Poems : :”
From you have I been absent in the spring : William Shakespeare : : Sonnet 98 : : April Poems : : Month Poems : :
Sonnet 98: From you have I been absent in the springBY WILLIAM SHAKESPEAREFrom you have I been absent in the spring,When proud-pied April, dressed in all his trim,Hath put a spirit of youth in everything,That heavy Saturn laughed and leaped with him.Yet nor the lays of birds, nor the sweet smellOf different flowers in odourContinue reading “From you have I been absent in the spring : William Shakespeare : : Sonnet 98 : : April Poems : : Month Poems : :”
Home-Thoughts, from Abroad : Robert Browning : : April Poems : : Month Poems : :
Robert Browning : : Home-Thoughts, from Abroad : : : : Oh, to be in EnglandNow that April’s there,And whoever wakes in EnglandSees, some morning, unaware,That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheafRound the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf,While the chaffinch sings on the orchard boughIn England—now! And after April, when May follows,And theContinue reading “Home-Thoughts, from Abroad : Robert Browning : : April Poems : : Month Poems : :”
Spring : Edna St. Vincent Millay : : April Poems : : Month Poems : :
SpringBY EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAYTo what purpose, April, do you return again? 1Beauty is not enough. 2You can no longer quiet me with the redness 3Of little leaves opening stickily. 4I know what I know. 5The sun is hot on my neck as I observe 6The spikes of the crocus. 7The smell of the earthContinue reading “Spring : Edna St. Vincent Millay : : April Poems : : Month Poems : :”
The Waste Land : T S Eliot : : April Poems : : Month Poems : :
The Waste LandBY T. S. ELIOT‘Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et cum illi pueri dicerent: Σίβυλλα τί θέλεις; respondebat illa: άποθανεîν θέλω.’ For Ezra Pound il miglior fabbro. I. The Burial of the Dead April is the cruellest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory and desire,Continue reading “The Waste Land : T S Eliot : : April Poems : : Month Poems : :”
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