Apr 30, 2012 | Hymn, Rhymed Couplets, The Work of Greater Minds
Rock of Ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself in Thee; Let the water and the blood, From Thy wounded side which flowed, Be of sin the double cure; Save from wrath and make me pure. Not the labor of my hands Can fulfill Thy law’s demands; Could my zeal no respite...
Apr 17, 2012 | Bible Story, Gus Stevens, Rhymed Couplets, The Unspeakable Name vol. 1
Before the earth was swallowed up in sea Noah barred the doors and all skies darkened grey, for once the gate was shut, he heard no beggar’s plea; to flinch at life’s last moment could not the hammer stay. Did he hear their clawing hands in his dreams? The...
Mar 25, 2012 | Erotic, Love, Rhymed Couplets, The Work of Greater Minds
COME, madam, come, all rest my powers defy; Until I labour, I in labour lie. The foe ofttimes, having the foe in sight, Is tired with standing, though he never fight. Off with that girdle, like heaven’s zone glittering, But a far fairer world encompassing. Unpin...
Feb 28, 2012 | Gus Stevens, Quatrains, Rhymed Couplets, Sinner's Psalms vol. 1
You are in me like an absence, a void, one that could be filled with all the wanted things— an emptiness made of what I’ve not enjoyed. My bird wears none so fine a set of wings. The woman is not ill-dressed, but if only she would display her treasures on the...
Dec 6, 2011 | Marilee (Clement) Brewer, Rhymed Couplets, The Work of Greater Minds
It was a hard thing to undo this knot. The rainbow shines but only in the thought Of him that looks. Yet not in that alone, For who makes rainbows by invention? And many standing round a waterfall See one bow each, yet not the same to all, But each a hand’s...
Nov 26, 2011 | Rhymed Couplets, Sonnet, The Work of Greater Minds, Victorian Sonnet
He whom I bow to only knows to whom I bow When I attempt the ineffable Name, murmuring Thou, And dream of Pheidian* fancies and embrace in heart Symbols (I Know) which cannot be the thing Thou art. Thus always, taken at their word, all prayers blaspheme Worshiping...