age - Popular Poems and stories from category

Unbridled licentiousness with no holds barred,
Immediate and mutual lust,
In the heat, upon demand, aroused
And satisfied again, lechery unlimited

The earth and sky were unknown worlds to
Only the expanse of mother's bosom was a world to
Every movement was a symbol of life's pleasure to
My own speech was like a meaningless word to

The age demanded that we sing And cut away our tongue
The age demanded that we flow And hammered in the bung
The age demanded that we dance And jammed us into iron pants
And in the end the age was handed The sort of shit that it dem...

I do not choose to dream; there cometh on
Some strange old lust for deeds
As to the nerveless hand of some old
The sword-hilt or the war-worn wonted

Long ere the Muse the strenuous chords had swept,
And the first lay as yet in silence slept,
A Time there was which since has stirred the lyre To notes of wail and accents warm with fire;
Moved the soft Mantuan to his silvery strain,

Verse, a Breeze 'mid blossoms straying,
Where
PE clung feeding, like a bee--Both were mine
Life went a-maying      With

Stirs its ashes and embers, its burnt
An eye powdered over, half melted and solid
Ideas that
At the first touch of

Come closer, kind, white, long-familiar friend,
Embrace me, fold me to thy broad, soft breast
Life has grown strange and cold, but thou dost
Mild eyes of blessing wooing to my rest

Why is this age worse than earlier ages
In a stupor of grief and dreadhave we not fingered the foulest woundsand left them unhealed by our hands
In the west the falling light still glows,and the clustered housetops glitter in the sun,but...