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1. What News - written by Walter Savage Landor
Read 520 times on Poetry Connection.

Here, ever since you went abroad,
If there be change, no change I see,
I only walk our wonted road,
The road is only walkt by me.

Yes; I forgot; a change there is;
Was it of that you bade me tell?
I catch at times, at times I miss
The... (Read full poem)

HERE, ever since you went abroad, 
   If there be change no change I see: 
I only walk our wonted road, 
   The road is only walk'd by me. 

Yes; I forgot; a change there is-- 
   Was it of that you bade me tell? 
I catch at times, at times... (Read full poem)

3. Elegy III: Change - written by John Donne
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Although thy hand and faith, and good works too,
Have sealed thy love which nothing should undo,
Yea though thou fall back, that apostasy
Confirm thy love; yet much, much I fear thee.
Women are like the Arts, forced unto to none,
Open to all... (Read full poem)

Five months ago the stream did flow,
The lilies bloomed within the sedge,
And we were lingering to and fro,
Where none will track thee in this snow,
Along the stream, beside the hedge.
Ah, Sweet, be free to love and go!
For if I do not hear... (Read full poem)

5. Amor Vincit Omnia - written by Edgar Bowers
From Living Together: New And Selected Poems. Published in 1973. Read 10948 times on Poetry Connection.

Love is no more.
It died as the mind dies: the pure desire
Relinquishing the blissful form it wore,
The ample joy and clarity expire.

Regret is vain.
Then do not grieve for what you would efface,
The sudden failure of the past, the pain
Of its... (Read full poem)

The years of my youth, my sensual life --
how clearly I see their meaning now.

What needless repentances, how futile....

But I did not understand the meaning then.

In the dissolute life of my youth
the desires of my poetry were being formed,
the... (Read full poem)

7. Mutability - written by Edmund Spenser
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When I bethink me on that speech whilere,
Of Mutability, and well it weigh:
Me seems,that though she all unworthy were
Of the Heav'ns Rule; yet very sooth to say,
In all things else she bears the greatest sway.
Which makes me loathe this state... (Read full poem)

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)

9. Ignorant Before The Heavens Of My Life - written by Rainer Maria Rilke
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Ignorant before the heavens of my life,
I stand and gaze in wonder. Oh the vastness
of the stars. Their rising and descent. How still.
As if I didn't exist. Do I have any
share in this? Have I somehow dispensed with
their pure effect? Does my... (Read full poem)

I empty myself of the names of others. I empty my pockets.
I empty my shoes and leave them beside the road.
At night I turn back the clocks;
I open the family album and look at myself as a boy.

What good does it do? The hours have done their job.
I... (Read full poem)

11. I Cannot Change, As Others Do - written by John Wilmot
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I cannot change, as others do,
Though you unjustly scorn;
Since that poor swain that sighs for you,
For you alone was born.
No, Phyllis, no, your heart to move
A surer way I'll try:
And to revenge my slighted love,
Will still love on, will... (Read full poem)

Cry out on Time that he may take away 
Your cold philosophies that give no hint 
Of spirit-quickened flesh; fall down and pray 
That Death come never with a face of flint: 
Death is our heritage; with Life we share
The sunlight that must own... (Read full poem)

13. The Passing Strange - written by John Masefield
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Out of the earth to rest or range
Perpetual in perpetual change,
The unknown passing through the strange.

Water and saltness held together
To tread the dust and stand the weather,
And plough the field and stretch the tether,

To pass the... (Read full poem)

No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change.
Thy pyramids built up with newer might
To me are nothing novel, nothing strange;
They are but dressings of a former sight.
Our dates are brief, and therefore we admire
What thou dost foist upon... (Read full poem)

15. He Mourns For The Change That Has Come Upon Him And His Beloved, And Longs For The End Of The World - written by William Butler Yeats
From The Wind Among The Reeds. Published in 1899. Read 1547 times on Poetry Connection.

Do you not hear me calling, white deer with no horns?
I have been changed to a hound with one red ear;
I have been in the Path of Stones and the Wood of Thorns,
For somebody hid hatred and hope and desire and fear
Under my feet that they follow you... (Read full poem)

But now life's face beholden
Seemed bright as heaven's bare brow
With hope of gifts withholden
But now.

From time's full-flowering bough
Each bud spake bloom to embolden
Love's heart, and seal his vow.

Joy's eyes grew deep with... (Read full poem)

17. Codicil - written by Derek Walcott
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Schizophrenic, wrenched by two styles,
one a hack's hired prose, I earn
me exile. I trudge this sickle, moonlit beach for miles,

tan, burn
to slough off
this live of ocean that's self-love.

To change your language you must change your life.

I... (Read full poem)

I COULD praise you once with beautiful words ere you came
And entered my life with love in a wind of flame.
I could lure with a song from afar my bird to its nest,
But with pinions drooping together silence is best.
 

In the land of beautiful... (Read full poem)

19. Portrait - written by Robert William Service
From Carols of an Old Codger. Read 457 times on Poetry Connection.

Because life's passing show
      Is little to his mind,
There is a man I know
      Indrawn from human kind.
His dearest friends are books;
      Yet oh how glad he talks
To birds and trees and brooks
      On lonely walks.
He takes the same still... (Read full poem)

Strange to know nothing, never to be sure
Of what is true or right or real,
But forced to qualify or so I feel,
Or Well, it does seem so:
Someone must know.

Strange to be ignorant of the way things work:
Their skill at finding what they need,
Their... (Read full poem)

21. Time And Life - written by Algernon Charles Swinburne
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I.

Time, thy name is sorrow, says the stricken
Heart of life, laid waste with wasting flame
Ere the change of things and thoughts requicken,
Time, thy name.

Girt about with shadow, blind and lame,
Ghosts of things that smite and thoughts... (Read full poem)

Little bush maiden, wondering-eyed, 
Playing alone in the creek-bed dry, 
In the small green flat on every side 
Walled in by the Moonbi ranges high; 
Tell me the tale of your lonely life 
'Mid the great grey forests that know no change. 
"I... (Read full poem)

23. Discord - written by Algernon Charles Swinburne
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Unreconciled by life's fleet years, that fled
With changeful clang of pinions wide and wild,
Though two great spirits had lived, and hence had sped
Unreconciled;

Though time and change, harsh time's imperious child,
That wed strange hands... (Read full poem)

We cannot know his legendary head
with eyes like ripening fruit. And yet his torso
is still suffused with brilliance from inside,
like a lamp, in which his gaze, now turned to low,

gleams in all its power. Otherwise
the curved breast could not... (Read full poem)

25. Sonnet 10: For shame, deny that thou bear'st love to any - written by William Shakespeare
From The Sonnets. Published in 1609. Read 676 times on Poetry Connection.

For shame, deny that thou bear'st love to any
Who for thy self art so unprovident.
Grant, if thou wilt, thou art beloved of many,
But that thou none lov'st is most evident;
For thou art so possessed with murd'rous hate,
That 'gainst thy... (Read full poem)