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The term "saved some part of a day" has been searched for 23 times before on Poetry Connection. The first time was on March 19th, 2005.
1. Part Of Speech - written by Joseph Brodsky
Read 1497 times on Poetry Connection.
...and when "the future" is uttered, swarms of mice
rush out of the Russian language and gnaw a piece
of ripened memory which is twice
as hole-ridden as real cheese.
After all these years it hardly matters who
or what stands in the corner, hidden... (Read full poem)
2. Love, We Must Part Now - written by Philip Larkin
From Early Poems.
Published in 1943.
Read 5595 times on Poetry Connection.
Love, we must part now: do not let it be
Calamitious and bitter. In the past
There has been too much moonlight and self-pity:
Let us have done with it: for now at last
Never has sun more boldly paced the sky,
Never were hearts more eager to be... (Read full poem)
3. My Bay'nit - written by Robert William Service
From Rhymes of a Red Cross Man.
Read 460 times on Poetry Connection.
When first I left Blighty they gave me a bay'nit
And told me it 'ad to be smothered wiv gore;
But blimey! I 'aven't been able to stain it,
So far as I've gone wiv the vintage of war.
For ain't it a fraud! when a Boche and yours truly... (Read full poem)
4. The New Poetry Handbook - written by Mark Strand
Read 48895 times on Poetry Connection.
1 If a man understands a poem,
he shall have troubles.
2 If a man lives with a poem,
he shall die lonely.
3 If a man lives with two poems,
he shall be unfaithful to one.
4 If a man conceives of a poem,
he shall... (Read full poem)
5. Epitaph On An Army of Mercenaries - written by A.E. Housman
Read 1209 times on Poetry Connection.
These, in the day when heaven was falling,
The hour when earth's foundations fled,
Followed their mercenary calling
And took their wages and are dead.
Their shoulders held the sky suspended;
They stood, and earth's foundations stay;
What... (Read full poem)
6. To Oenone - written by Robert Herrick
Read 330 times on Poetry Connection.
WHAT conscience, say, is it in thee,
When I a heart had one,
To take away that heart from me,
And to retain thy own?
For shame or pity now incline
To play a loving part;
Either to send me kindly thine,
Or give me back my... (Read full poem)
7. I Look Into My Glass - written by Thomas Hardy
Read 1598 times on Poetry Connection.
I look into my glass,
And view my wasting skin,
And say, "Would God it came to pass
My heart had shrunk as thin!"
For then, I, undistrest
By hearts grown cold to me,
Could lonely wait my endless rest
With equanimity.
But Time, to make me... (Read full poem)
8. Rivulose - written by A.R. Ammons
Read 1354 times on Poetry Connection.
You think the ridge hills flowing, breaking
with ups and downs will, though,
building constancy into the black foreground
for each sunset, hold on to you, if dreams
wander, give reality recurrence enough to keep
an image clear, but then you... (Read full poem)
9. You And Me - written by Robert William Service
From Rhymes for My Rags.
Read 571 times on Poetry Connection.
I'm part of people I have known
And they are part of me;
The seeds of thought that I have sown
In other minds I see.
There's something of me in the throne
And in the gallows tree.
There's something of me in each one... (Read full poem)
10. The Triumph Of Achilles - written by Paul Celan
From The Riverside Anthology of Literature.
Published in 1985.
Read 1185 times on Poetry Connection.
In the story of Patroclus
no one survives, not even Achilles
who was nearly a god.
Patroclus resembled him; they wore
the same armor.
Always in these friendships
one serves the other, one is less than the other:
the hierarchy
is always apparant,... (Read full poem)
11. Noah - written by Siegfried Sassoon
Read 556 times on Poetry Connection.
When old Noah stared across the floods,
Sky and water melted into one
Looking-glass of shifting tides and sun.
Mountain-tops were few: the ship was foul:
All the morn old Noah marvelled greatly
At this weltering world that shone so... (Read full poem)
12. Misconceptions - written by Robert Browning
Read 1920 times on Poetry Connection.
This is a spray the Bird clung to,
Making it blossom with pleasure,
Ere the high tree-top she sprung to,
Fit for her nest and her treasure.
Oh, what a hope beyond measure
Was the poor spray's, which the flying feet hung to,—
So to be singled... (Read full poem)
13. Mismet - written by Thomas Hardy
From Late Lyrics and Earlier.
Published in 1922.
Read 662 times on Poetry Connection.
He was leaning by a face,
He was looking into eyes,
And he knew a trysting-place,
And he heard seductive sighs;
But the face,
And the eyes,
And the place,
And the sighs,
Were not, alas, the right ones--the ones meet for him--
Though fine... (Read full poem)
14. Dangerous Things - written by Constantine P. Cavafy
Published in 1911.
Read 820 times on Poetry Connection.
Said Myrtias (a Syrian student
in Alexandria; in the reign of
Augustus Constans and Augustus Constantius;
in part a pagan, and in part a christian);
"Fortified by theory and study,
I shall not fear my passions like a coward.
I shall give my body to... (Read full poem)
15. Couplets on Wit - written by Alexander Pope
Read 1567 times on Poetry Connection.
I
But our Great Turks in wit must reign alone
And ill can bear a Brother on the Throne.
II
Wit is like faith by such warm Fools profest
Who to be saved by one, must damn the rest.
III
Some who grow dull religious strait... (Read full poem)
16. Montreal Maree - written by Robert William Service
From Songs of a Sun-Lover.
Read 502 times on Poetry Connection.
You've heard of Belching Billy, likewise known as Windy Bill,
As punk a chunk of Yukon scum as ever robbed a sluice;
A satellite of Soapy Smith, a capper and a shill,
A slimy tribute-taker from the Ladies on the Loose.
But say, you never heard of... (Read full poem)
17. Sonnet 145: Those lips that Love's own hand did make - written by William Shakespeare
From The Sonnets.
Published in 1609.
Read 1289 times on Poetry Connection.
Those lips that Love's own hand did make
Breathed forth the sound that said "I hate"
To me that languished for her sake;
But when she saw my woeful state,
Straight in her heart did mercy come,
Chiding that tongue that ever sweet
Was used in... (Read full poem)
18. Holy Sonnet XVI: Father, Part Of His Double Interest - written by John Donne
Read 575 times on Poetry Connection.
Father, part of his double interest
Unto thy kingdom, thy Son gives to me,
His jointure in the knotty Trinity
He keeps, and gives to me his death's conquest.
This Lamb, whose death with life the world hath blest,
Was from the world's beginning... (Read full poem)
19. Stanzas To Jessy - written by Lord Byron
Read 581 times on Poetry Connection.
There is a mystic thread of life
So dearly wreath'd with mine alone,
That Destiny's relentless knife
At once must sever both, or none.
There is a Form on which these eyes
Have fondly gazed with such delight---
By day, that Form their joy... (Read full poem)
20. FROM 'THE SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHER.' - written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
From The Poems.
Published in 1853.
Read 578 times on Poetry Connection.
[Prefixed to the second edition.]
EV'RY youth for love's sweet portion sighs,
Ev'ry maiden sighs to win man's love;
Why, alas! should bitter pain arise
From the noblest passion that we prove?
Thou, kind soul, bewailest, lov'st him... (Read full poem)
21. Sonnet 113: Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind - written by William Shakespeare
From The Sonnets.
Published in 1609.
Read 715 times on Poetry Connection.
Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind,
And that which governs me to go about
Doth part his function, and is partly blind,
Seems seeing, but effectually is out;
For it no form delivers to the heart
Of bird, of flower, or shape which it doth... (Read full poem)
22. The Survivor - written by Theodore Roethke
Read 7571 times on Poetry Connection.
I am twenty-four
led to slaughter
I survived.
The following are empty synonyms:
man and beast
love and hate
friend and foe
darkness and light.
The way of killing men and beasts is the same
I've seen it:
truckfuls of chopped-up men
who will not be... (Read full poem)
23. Sonnet 46: Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war - written by William Shakespeare
From The Sonnets.
Published in 1609.
Read 768 times on Poetry Connection.
Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war
How to divide the conquest of thy sight;
Mine eye my heart thy picture's sight would bar,
My heart mine eye the freedom of that right,
My heart doth plead that thou in him dost lie—
A closet never pierced... (Read full poem)
24. Sonnet 74: But be contented when that fell arrest - written by William Shakespeare
From The Sonnets.
Published in 1609.
Read 1022 times on Poetry Connection.
But be contented when that fell arrest
Without all bail shall carry me away;
My life hath in this line some interest,
Which for memorial still with thee shall stay.
When thou reviewest this, thou dost review
The very part was consecrate to... (Read full poem)
25. Behind the Scenes - written by Andrew Barton Paterson
Read 704 times on Poetry Connection.
The actor struts his little hour,
Between the limelight and the band;
The public feel the actor's power,
Yet nothing do they understand
Of all the touches here and there
That make or mar the actor's part,
They never see, beneath the... (Read full poem)
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