Some poems

[Update of this page coming soon...]
 

At this stage, only two poems are available here... Sorry! I would like to add lots and lots more, but I don't know when I will be able to do that. In the mean time, you can follow the links to two poetry databases on the web. You'll find plenty of poems there.

Index:
 

Walt Whitman

Stephen Crane


Links:

Poems from the Planet Earth
Kenneth Hope Anthology


WALT WHITMAN
 

The Dalliance of the Eagles

Skirting the river road, (my forenoon walk, my rest,)
Skyward in air a sudden muffled sound, the dalliance of the eagles,
The rushing amorous contact high in space together,
The clinching interlocking claws, a living, fierce, gyrating wheel,
Four beating wings, two beaks, a swirling mass tight grappling,
In tumbling turning clustering loops, straight downward falling,
Till o’er the river pois’d, the twain yet one, a moment’s lull,
A motionless still balance in the air, then parting, talons loosing,
Upward again on slow-firm pinions slanting, their separate diverse flight,
She hers, he his, pursuing.

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STEPHEN CRANE
 

A Man Said to the Universe

A man said to the universe:
 “Sir, I exist!”
 “However,” replied the universe,
 “The fact has not created in me
 A sense of obligation.”

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