Dec 6, 2015 | Rhymed Couplets, The Work of Greater Minds
Evelyn de Morgan, Night and Sleep 1878 Vicisti, Galilæe. I have lived long enough, having seen one thing, that love hath an end; Goddess and maiden and queen, be near me now and befriend. Thou art more than the day or the morrow, the seasons that laugh or that...
Dec 6, 2015 | Chiastic, Gus Stevens, Irregular Rhyme, Sinner's Psalms vol. 1
Thou art more than the day or the morrow, the seasons that laugh or that weep; For these give joy and sorrow; but thou, Proserpina, sleep. —Algernon Charles Swinburne, Hymn to Prosperine If asked to choose: eternal life or sleep, he’s not sure how...
Oct 13, 2015 | Italian Sonnet, Sonnet, The Work of Greater Minds
In Egypt’s sandy silence, all alone, Stands a gigantic leg, which far off throws The only shadow that the desert knows:— “I am great OZYMANDIAS,” saith the stone, “The King of Kings; this mighty City shows ...
Oct 13, 2015 | Sonnet, The Work of Greater Minds
I met a traveler from an antique land Who said: “Two vast and trunk-less legs of stone Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those...
Sep 14, 2015 | Gus Stevens, Sinner's Psalms vol. 2, Villanelle
Tied to a stake, the string stretched ponderously far arcing into the blue and almost out of sight; it cast no shadow and seemed as distant as a star and slit the sky to a pointed diamond-shaped scar. The minuscule and near invisible sprite hung motionless and still...
