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Written by Mary Darby Robinson | Create an image from this poem

Ode to Health

 Come, bright-eyed maid, 
Pure offspring of the tranquil mind,
Haste, my fev'rish temples bind
With olive wreaths of em'rald hue
Steep'd in morn's ethereal dew, 
Where in mild HELVETIA's shade, 
Blushing summer round her flings
Warm gales and sunny show'rs that hang upon her wings. 

I'll seek thee in ITALIA's bow'rs, 
Where supine on beds of flow'rs
Melody's soul-touching throng
Strike the soft lute or trill the melting song: 
Where blithe FANCY, queen of pleasure,
Pours each rich luxuriant treasure. 
For thee I'll climb the breezy hill, 
While the balmy dews distill 
Odours from the budding thorn, 
Drop'd from the lust'rous lids of morn; 
Who, starting from her shad'wy bed, 
Binds her gold fillet round the mountain's head. 

There I'll press from herbs and flow'rs
Juices bless'd with opiate pow'rs, 
Whose magic potency can heal
The throb of agonizing pain, 
And thro' the purple swelling vein
With subtle influence steal: 
Heav'n opes for thee its aromatic store
To bathe each languid gasping pore;
But where, O where, shall cherish'd sorrow find
The lenient balm to soothe the feeling mind. 

O, mem'ry! busy barb'rous foe, 
At thy fell touch I wake to woe: 
Alas! the flatt'ring dream is o'er, 
From thee the bright illusions fly, 
Thou bidst the glitt'ring phantoms die, 
And hope, and youth, and fancy, charm no more. 

No more for me the tip-toe SPRING
Drops flowrets from her infant wing; 
For me in vain the wild thymes bloom
Thro' the forest flings perfume; 
In vain I climb th'embroider'd hill 
To breathe the clear autumnal air; 
In vain I quaff the lucid rill 
Since jocund HEALTH delights not there
To greet my heart:­no more I view, 
With sparkling eye, the silv'ry dew 
Sprinkling May's tears upon the folded rose, 
As low it droops its young and blushing head, 
Press'd by grey twilight to its mossy bed: 
No more I lave amidst the tide, 
Or bound along the tufted grove, 
Or o'er enamel'd meadows rove, 
Where, on Zephyr's pinions, glide
Salubrious airs that waft the nymph repose. 

Lightly o'er the yellow heath
Steals thy soft and fragrant breath,
Breath inhal'd from musky flow'rs
Newly bath'd in perfum'd show'rs. 
See the rosy-finger'd morn
Opes her bright refulgent eye, 
Hills and valleys to adorn, 
While from her burning glance the scatter'd vapours fly. 

Soon, ah soon! the painted scene,
The hill's blue top, the valley's green, 
Midst clouds of snow, and whirlwinds drear, 
Shall cold and comfortless appear: 
The howling blast shall strip the plain, 
And bid my pensive bosom learn, 
Tho' NATURE's face shall smile again, 
And, on the glowing breast of Spring
Creation all her gems shall fling, 
YOUTH's April morn shall ne'er return. 

Then come, Oh quickly come, Hygeian Maid! 
Each throbbing pulse, each quiv'ring nerve pervade. 
Flash thy bright fires across my languid eye, 
Tint my pale visage with thy roseate die, 
Bid my heart's current own a temp'rate glow, 
And from its crimson source in tepid channels flow. 

O HEALTH, celestial Nymph! without thy aid
Creation sickens in oblivions shade: 
Along the drear and solitary gloom
We steal on thorny footsteps to the tomb; 
Youth, age, wealth, poverty alike agree 
To live is anguish, when depriv'd of Thee. 
To THEE indulgent Heav'n benignly gave
The touch to heal, the extacy to save. 
The balmy incense of thy fost'ring breath
Wafts the wan victim from the fangs of Death, 
Robs the grim Tyrant of his trembling prize, 
Cheers the faint soul, and lifts it to the skies. 

Let not the gentle rose thy bounty drest 
To meet the rising son with od'rous breast, 
Which glow'd with artless tints at noon-tide hour, 
And shed soft tears upon each drooping flower, 
With with'ring anguish mourn the parting Day, 
Shrink to the Earth, and sorrowing fade away.


Written by Stephen Dobyns | Create an image from this poem

Loud Music

 My stepdaughter and I circle round and round.
You see, I like the music loud, the speakers
throbbing, jam-packing the room with sound whether
Bach or rock and roll, the volume cranked up so
each bass notes is like a hand smacking the gut.
But my stepdaughter disagrees. She is four
and likes the music decorous, pitched below
her own voice-that tenuous projection of self.
With music blasting, she feels she disappears,
is lost within the blare, which in fact I like.
But at four what she wants is self-location
and uses her voice as a porpoise uses 
its sonar: to find herself in all this space.
If she had a sort of box with a peephole
and looked inside, what she'd like to see would be
herself standing there in her red pants, jacket,
yellow plastic lunch box: a proper subject
for serious study. But me, if I raised
the same box to my eye, I would wish to find
the ocean on one of those days when wind
and thick cloud make the water gray and restless
as if some creature brooded underneath,
a rocky coast with a road along the shore
where someone like me was walking and has gone.
Loud music does this, it wipes out the ego,
leaving turbulent water and winding road,
a landscape stripped of people and language-
how clear the air becomes, how sharp the colors.
Written by Horace | Create an image from this poem

Maecenas Atavis

Maecenas, born of monarch ancestors,
       The shield at once and glory of my life!
       There are who joy them in the Olympic strife
     And love the dust they gather in the course;
     The goal by hot wheels shunn'd, the famous prize,
       Exalt them to the gods that rule mankind;
       This joys, if rabbles fickle as the wind
     Through triple grade of honours bid him rise,
     That, if his granary has stored away
       Of Libya's thousand floors the yield entire;
       The man who digs his field as did his sire,
     With honest pride, no Attalus may sway
     By proffer'd wealth to tempt Myrtoan seas,
       The timorous captain of a Cyprian bark.
       The winds that make Icarian billows dark
     The merchant fears, and hugs the rural ease
     Of his own village home; but soon, ashamed
       Of penury, he refits his batter'd craft.
       There is, who thinks no scorn of Massic draught,
     Who robs the daylight of an hour unblamed,
     Now stretch'd beneath the arbute on the sward,
       Now by some gentle river's sacred spring;
       Some love the camp, the clarion's joyous ring,
     And battle, by the mother's soul abhorr'd.
     See, patient waiting in the clear keen air,
       The hunter, thoughtless of his delicate bride,
       Whether the trusty hounds a stag have eyed,
     Or the fierce Marsian boar has burst the snare.
     To me the artist's meed, the ivy wreath
       Is very heaven: me the sweet cool of woods,
       Where Satyrs frolic with the Nymphs, secludes
     From rabble rout, so but Euterpe's breath
     Fail not the flute, nor Polyhymnia fly
       Averse from stringing new the Lesbian lyre.
       O, write my name among that minstrel choir,
     And my proud head shall strike upon the sky!
Written by Robert Louis Stevenson | Create an image from this poem

Looking-Glass River

 Smooth it glides upon its travel, 
Here a wimple, there a gleam-- 
O the clean gravel! 
O the smooth stream! 

Sailing blossoms, silver fishes, 
Pave pools as clear as air-- 
How a child wishes 
To live down there! 

We can see our colored faces 
Floating on the shaken pool 
Down in cool places, 
Dim and very cool; 

Till a wind or water wrinkle, 
Dipping marten, plumping trout, 
Spreads in a twinkle 
And blots all out. 

See the rings pursue each other; 
All below grows black as night, 
Just as if mother 
Had blown out the light! 

Patience, children, just a minute-- 
See the spreading circles die; 
The stream and all in it 
Will clear by-and-by.
Written by Edna St. Vincent Millay | Create an image from this poem

Whereas At Morning In A Jeweled Crown

 Whereas at morning in a Jeweled Crown
I bit my fingers and was hard to please,
Having shook disaster till the fruit fell down
I feel tonight more happy and at ease:
Feet running in the corridors, men quick— 
Buckling their sword-belts, bumping down the stair,
Challenge, and rattling bridge-chain, and the click
Of hooves on pavement—this will clear the air.
Private this chamber as it has not been
In many a month of muffled hours; almost,
Lulled by the uproar, I could lie serene
And sleep, until all's won, until all's lost,
And the door's opened and the issue shown,
And I walk forth Hell's Mistress—or my own.



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