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The term "Sad Short" has been searched for 23 times before on Poetry Connection. The first time was on April 2nd, 2005.
1. Variations on 'The short night--' - written by Yosa Buson
From The Essential Haiku.
Published in 1994.
Read 3837 times on Poetry Connection.
Below are eleven Buson haiku
beginning with the phrase
'The short night--'
The short night--
on the hairy caterpillar
beads of dew.
The short night--
patrolmen
washing in the river.
The short night--
bubbles of crab froth
among the river... (Read full poem)
2. Metrical Feet - written by Samuel Coleridge
Read 1455 times on Poetry Connection.
Trochee trips from long to short;
From long to long in solemn sort
Slow Spondee stalks, strong foot!, yet ill able
Ever to come up with Dactyl's trisyllable.
Iambics march from short to long.
With a leap and a bound the swift Anapests... (Read full poem)
3. TO DAFFADILS - written by Robert Herrick
Read 1035 times on Poetry Connection.
Fair Daffadils, we weep to see
You haste away so soon;
As yet the early-rising sun
Has not attain'd his noon.
Stay, stay,
Until the hasting day
Has run
But to the even-song;
And, having pray'd together, we
Will go with you along.
We... (Read full poem)
4. Be My Mistress Short or Tall - written by Robert Herrick
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Be my mistress short or tall
And distorted therewithall
Be she likewise one of those
That an acre hath of nose
Be her teeth ill hung or set
And her grinders black as jet
Be her cheeks so shallow too
As to show her tongue wag through... (Read full poem)
5. In Three Days - written by Robert Browning
Read 1070 times on Poetry Connection.
I.
So, I shall see her in three days
And just one night, but nights are short,
Then two long hours, and that is morn.
See how I come, unchanged, unworn!
Feel, where my life broke off from thine,
How fresh the splinters keep and... (Read full poem)
6. Summer Evening - written by John Clare
Read 1898 times on Poetry Connection.
The frog half fearful jumps across the path,
And little mouse that leaves its hole at eve
Nimbles with timid dread beneath the swath;
My rustling steps awhile their joys deceive,
Till past, and then the cricket sings more strong,
And grasshoppers in... (Read full poem)
7. An Old Man - written by Constantine P. Cavafy
Published in 1897.
Read 1574 times on Poetry Connection.
At the back of the noisy café
bent over a table sits an old man;
a newspaper in front of him, without company.
And in the scorn of his miserable old age
he ponders how little he enjoyed the years
when he had strength, and the power of the... (Read full poem)
8. Sonnet LX - written by Edmund Spenser
Read 489 times on Poetry Connection.
THey that in course of heauenly spheares are skild,
To euery planet point his sundry yeare:
in which her circles voyage is fulfild,
as Mars in three score yeares doth run his spheare
So since the winged God his planet cleare,
began in me to... (Read full poem)
10. Weathering - written by A.R. Ammons
From The Really Short Poems of A.R. Ammons.
Published in 1991.
Read 5560 times on Poetry Connection.
A day without rain is like
a day without sunshine(Read full poem)
11. The Many - written by Algernon Charles Swinburne
From Sonnets of English Dramatic Poets (1590-1650).
Published in 1882.
Read 1939 times on Poetry Connection.
Greene, garlanded with February's few flowers
Ere March came in with Marlowe's rapturous rage;
Peele, from whose hand the sweet white locks of age
Took the mild chaplet woven of honored hours;
Nash, laughing hard; Lodge, flushed from lyric... (Read full poem)
12. Release - written by A.R. Ammons
From The Really Short Poems of A.R. Ammons.
Published in 1990.
Read 3443 times on Poetry Connection.
After a long
muggy
hanging
day
the raindrops
started so
sparse
the bumblebee flew
between
them home(Read full poem)
13. Three Short Poems - written by W. H. Auden
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"The underground roads
Are, as the dead prefer them,
Always tortuous."
"When he looked the cave in the eye,
Hercules
Had a moment of doubt."
Leaning out over
The dreadful precipice,
One contemptuous tree."(Read full poem)
15. Crowride - written by A.R. Ammons
From The Really Short Poems of A.R. Ammons.
Published in 1990.
Read 2088 times on Poetry Connection.
When the crow
lands, the
tip of the sprung spruce
bough weighs
so low, the
system so friction-free,
the bobbing lasts
way past any
interest in the subject.(Read full poem)
16. After Yesterday - written by A.R. Ammons
From The Really Short Poems of A.R. Ammons.
Published in 1990.
Read 3459 times on Poetry Connection.
After yesterday
afternoon's blue
clouds and white rain
the mockingbird
in the backyard
untied the drops from
leaves and twigs
with a long singing.(Read full poem)
17. Poem 24 - written by Edmund Spenser
Read 412 times on Poetry Connection.
SOng made in lieu of many ornaments,
With which my loue should duly haue bene dect,
Which cutting off through hasty accidents,
Ye would not stay your dew time to expect,
But promist both to recompens,
Be vnto her a goodly ornament,
And for... (Read full poem)
18. Give me a doctor - written by W. H. Auden
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Give me a doctor partridge-plump,
Short in the leg and broad in the rump,
An endomorph with gentle hands
Who'll never make absurd demands
That I abandon all my vices
Nor pull a long face in a crisis,
But with a twinkle in his eye
Will tell... (Read full poem)
19. THE OLIVE BRANCH - written by Robert Herrick
Read 354 times on Poetry Connection.
Sadly I walk'd within the field,
To see what comfort it would yield;
And as I went my private way,
An olive-branch before me lay;
And seeing it, I made a stay,
And took it up, and view'd it; then
Kissing the omen, said Amen;
Be, be it so,... (Read full poem)
20. Anne Pennington - written by Vasko Popa
From Collected Poems.
Published in 5.
Read 688 times on Poetry Connection.
Until her last breath she enlarges
Her Oxford house
Built in Slavonic
Vowels and consonants
She polishes the corner-stones
Until their Anglo-Saxon shine
Begins to sing
Her death is like a short breath-stop
Under the distant limetrees of her friends(Read full poem)
21. The Good-night or Blessing - written by Robert Herrick
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Blessings in abundance come
To the bride and to her groom ;
May the bed and this short night
Know the fulness of delight !
Pleasure many here attend ye,
And, ere long, a boy love send ye,
Curled and comely, and so trim,
Maids in time may... (Read full poem)
22. The New Omar - written by G.K. Chesterton
Read 771 times on Poetry Connection.
A Book of verses underneath the bough,
Provided that the verses do not scan,
A loaf of bread, a jug of wine and Thou,
Short-haired, all angles, looking like a man.
But let the wine be unfermented, Pale,
Of chemicals compounded, God knows... (Read full poem)
23. ORPHEUS - written by Robert Herrick
Read 540 times on Poetry Connection.
Orpheus he went, as poets tell,
To fetch Eurydice from hell;
And had her, but it was upon
This short, but strict condition;
Backward he should not look, while he
Led her through hell's obscurity.
But ah! it happen'd, as he made
His passage... (Read full poem)
24. Recovery - written by A.R. Ammons
From The Really Short Poems of A.R. Ammons.
Published in 1990.
Read 2440 times on Poetry Connection.
All afternoon
the tree shadows, accelerating,
lengthened
till
sunset
shot them black into infinity:
next morning
darkness
returned from the other
infinity and the
shadows caught ground
and through the morning, slowing,
hardened into noon.(Read full poem)
25. It Is Not Growing Like A Tree - written by Ben Jonson
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It is not growing like a tree
In bulk doth make Man better be;
Or standing long an oak, three hundred year,
To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere:
A lily of a day
Is fairer far in May,
Although it fall and die that night—
It was the... (Read full poem)
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