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Written by Charles Simic | Create an image from this poem

Poem Without A Title

 I say to the lead
Why did you let yourself
Be cast into a bullet?
Have you forgotten the alchemists?
Have you given up hope
In turning into gold?

Nobody answers.
Lead. Bullet. With names
Such as these
The sleep is deep and long.


Written by Ben Jonson | Create an image from this poem

To Alchemists

VI. ? TO ALCHEMISTS.      If all you boast of your great art be true ; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.     Adriaen Jansz van Ostade.    Alchemist. 1661. [detail]
     Adriaen Jansz van Ostade.    Alchemist. 1661. [detail]
Written by Vachel Lindsay | Create an image from this poem

The Alchemists Petition

 Thou wilt not sentence to eternal life
My soul that prays that it may sleep and sleep
Like a white statue dropped into the deep,
Covered with sand, covered with chests of gold,
And slave-bones, tossed from many a pirate hold.

But for this prayer thou wilt not bind in Hell
My soul, that shook with love for Fame and Truth—
In Such unquenched desires consumed his youth—
Let me turn dust, like dead leaves in the Fall,
Or wood that lights an hour your knightly hall— 

Amen.

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