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Eugene Field: Ballad of women i love

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Eugene Field

(1850–1895)

Ballad of women i love

 

Prudence Mears hath an old blue plate

Hid away in an oaken chest,

And a Franklin platter of ancient date

Beareth Amandy Baker’s crest;

What times soever I’ve been their guest,

Says I to myself in an undertone:

“Of womenfolk, it must be confessed,

These do I love, and these alone.”

 

Well, again, in the Nutmeg State,

Dorothy Pratt is richly blest

With a relic of art and a land effete–

A pitcher of glass that’s cut, not pressed.

And a Washington teapot is possessed

Down in Pelham by Marthy Stone–

Think ye now that I say in jest

“These do I love, and these alone?”

 

Were Hepsy Higgins inclined to mate,

Or Dorcas Eastman prone to invest

In Cupid’s bonds, they could find their fate

In the bootless bard of Crockery Quest.

For they’ve heaps of trumpery–so have the rest

Of those spinsters whose ware I’d like to own;

You can see why I say with such certain zest,

“These do I love, and these alone.”

 

Eugene Field poetry

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James Russell Lowell: A New Year’s Greeting

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James Russell Lowell

(1819–1891)

A New Year’s Greeting

 

The century numbers fourscore years;

You, fortressed in your teens,

To Time’s alarums close your ears,

And, while he devastates your peers,

Conceive not what he means.

 

If e’er life’s winter fleck with snow

Your hair’s deep shadowed bowers,

That winsome head an art would know

To make it charm, and wear it so

As ’twere a wreath of flowers.

 

If to such fairies years must come,

May yours fall soft and slow

As, shaken by a bee’s low hum,

The rose-leaves waver, sweetly dumb,

Down to their mates below!

 

James Russell Lowell poetry

kempis.nl poetry magazine

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Niels Landstra: Het vuurwerk

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Het vuurwerk

 

Een menigte trekt langs pubs en cafés,

doemt op in de condensramen van een hotel

in het licht van kroonluchters; een feest

slingert dansmuziek uit de ballroomzaal

 

de buitenlucht in, waar eiken majesteit

buigen om het marktplein en de patio;

het tafeltje waarop je hand ligt is krijt-

wit als je gezicht, dat zwijgt in crescendo.

 

Het is mooi geweest, de passie is bedaard, uit

je streling, die mijn rimpels bedde, is alle

geduld en zin geëbd, en van de weeromstuit

knielt de avond betraand bij je neer, vallen

 

je haren herfstig op je jas uiteen; de dracht

van je omslag. Bloeien boven jou wolken

pioenvormig op, neerdalend in roze gruis,

 

is het vuurwerk zonder ons begonnen,

schuifelt op straat het gedrang in een gelag,

verklankt, ergens, een schreeuw van diep binnenuit.

 

Niels Landstra

kempis.nl poetry magazine

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