Section: «Poems»

Verse (ancient Greek ὁ στίχος — row, structure), a term in versification used in several meanings: artistic speech organized by division into rhythmically commensurate segments; poetry in the narrow sense; in particular, it implies the properties of versification of a particular tradition ("antique verse", "Akhmatova's verse", etc.); a line of poetic text organized according to a certain rhythmic pattern ("My uncle of the most honest rules").

Witchcraft: New Style

The sun drew off at last his piercing fires.Over the stale warm air, dull as a pondAnd moveless in the grey quieted street,Blue magic of a summer..

© Lascelles Abercrombie

Hope And Despair

Said God, 'You sisters, ere ye goDown among men, my work to do,I will on each a badge bestow:Hope I love best, and gold for her,Yet a silver glory..

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Epitaph

ir, you shall notice me: I am the Man;I am Good Fortune: I am satisfied.All I desired, more than I could desire,I have: everything has gone right..

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Emblems Of Love

SheONLY to be twin elements of joyIn this extravagance of Being, Love,Were our divided natures shaped in twain;And to this hour the whole world must..

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From "Vashti"

WHAT thing shall be held up to woman's beauty?Where are the bounds of it? Yea, what is allThe world, but an awning scaffolded amidThe waste perilous..

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Hymn To Love

We are thine, O Love, being in thee and made of thee,As théou, Léove, were the déep thoughtAnd we the speech of the thought; yea, spoken are we,Thy..

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Genesis Bk Ix

ll. 438-441) I will let him sit next me, whoever shall return tohell proclaiming that they have set at naught, by word and deed,the counsels of the..

© Caedmon

Genesis Bk Xx

(ll. 1248-1254) Then the sons of God began to take them wivesfrom the tribe of Cain, a cursed folk, and the sons of men chosethem wives from among..

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Genesis Bk Xviii

(ll. 1082-1089) And there was also in that tribe another son ofLamech, called Tubal Cain, a smith skilled in his craft. He wasthe first of all men on..

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Genesis Bk V

(ll. 235-236) "...Eat freely of the fruit of every other tree.From that one tree refrain. Beware of its fruit. And ye shallknow no dearth of pleasant..

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Genesis Bk Xv

(ll. 872-881) And straightway God made answer unto him: "Tell me,My son, why stealest thou away into the darkness with shame?Thou didst not formerly..

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Genesis Bk Xvii

(ll. 1002-1005) Then the Lord of glory spake unto Cain, and askedwhere Abel was. Quickly the cursed fashioner of death madeanswer unto Him:(ll...

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Genesis Bk Xvi

(ll. 918-924) And unto Eve God spake in wrath: "Turn thee fromjoy! Thou shalt live under man's dominion, sore smitten withfear before him. With..

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Genesis Bk Xi

ll. 442-460) Then God's enemy began to make him ready, equippedin war-gear, with a wily heart. He set his helm of darkness onhis head, bound it full..

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Genesis Bk Xiii

ll. 684-703) Long she pled, and urged him all the day to thatdark deed, to disobey their Lord's command. Close stood the evilfiend, inflaming with..

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Genesis Bk Xix

(ll. 1167-1180) And after Cainan Mahalaleel possessed the landand treasure many a year. The prince lived five-and-sixtywinters, and begat a son. An..

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Genesis Bk Xxi

l. 1327) Then our Lord said unto Noah:(ll. 1328-1355) "I give thee My pledge, dearest of men, that thoumayest go thy way, thou and the seed of every..

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Genesis Bk Iii

(ll. 135-143) The day departed, hasting over the dwellings ofearth. And after the gleaming light the Lord, our maker, thruston the first of evenings...

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Genesis Bk Vii

(ll. 322-336) The other fiends who waged so fierce a war with Godlay wrapped in flames. They suffer torment, hot and surgingflame in the midst of..

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Genesis Bk Vi

(ll. 246-260) The Holy Lord, All-wielding God, with mighty handhad wrought ten angel-orders in whom He trusted well, that theywould do Him service..

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Genesis Bk Ii

ll. 82-91) The citizens of heaven, the home of glory, dweltagain in concord. Strife was at an end among the angels, discordand dissension, when those..

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Genesis Bk Iv

ll. 169-191) ....It did not seem good to the Lord of heaven thatAdam should longer be alone as warden and keeper of this newParadise. Wherefore the..

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Genesis Bk I

I(ll. 1-28) Right is it that we praise the King of heaven, theLord of hosts, and love Him with all our hearts. For He is greatin power, the Source of..

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Caedmon's Hymn

Nu scylun hergan hefaenricaes uardmetudæs maecti end his modgidancuerc uuldurfadur sue he uundra gihuaeseci dryctin or astelidæhe aerist scop aelda..

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All Pervading Consciousness

And as His Essence all the world pervadesNaught in Creation is, save this alone.Upon the waters has He fixed His Throne,This earth suspended in the..

© Al-Ghazali Abu Hamid