Apr 22, 2012 | Italian Sonnet, Sonnet, The Work of Greater Minds
Nothing is so beautiful as spring – When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring The ear, it strikes like lightnings to hear him sing; The glassy...
Apr 20, 2012 | Gus Stevens, Sinner's Psalms vol. 2, Sonnet, Victorian Sonnet
All flowers lift their hands to praise the sun— raising their lauds at dawn, their sexts at noon and vespers when the dwindling day is done— but the sea bends her knees to the moon. Such is the worship of waves and the liturgy of leaves. But what of human kings,...
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...
Mar 16, 2012 | The Work of Greater Minds, Unrhymed Other
Satan’s speech upon finding earth and viewing the sun for the first time: O thou that with surpassing Glory crowned, Look’st from thy sole Dominion like the GodOf this new World; at whose sight all the StarsHide their diminished heads; to thee I call, But...
