ALEXIS KARPOUZOS - POEMS
Day after day, my voyage ends,
the words die out on the tongue,
and the time come to take
shelter in a silent obscurity.
Day after day, my voyage ends,
the words die out on the tongue,
and the time come to take
shelter in a silent obscurity.
I
The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats through unseen among us, — visiting This various world with as inconstant
As summer winds that creep from flower to flower,--Like moonbeams that behind some piny mountain shower, It visits w...
Beauty no other thing is, than a
Flash'd out between the middle and extreme
Considera girl who keeps slipping off,arms limp as old carrots,into the hypnotist's trance,into a spirit worldspeaking with the gift of tongues
She is stuck in the time machine,suddenly two years old sucking her thumb,as inward as a snail,lea...
The storm-dances of gulls, the barking game of seals,
Over and under the ocean…Divinely superfluous
Rules the games, presides over destinies, makes trees
And hills tower, waves fall
For certain he hath seen all
Who among other ladies hath seen mine:
They that go with her humbly should
To thank their God for such peculiar grace
To Stella:
Whether Stella's eyes are
Fix'd on earth or glancing round,
If her face with pleasure glow,
Your two great eyes will slay me suddenly;
Their beauty shakes me who was once serene;
Straight through my heart the wound is quick and keen
Only your word will heal the
I’ve sung of Honor’s golden hair And Hero’s auburn tresses,
Of Bella’s back abundance, where The sun throws his caresses;
I’ve sung of curl, and coil, and braid; On meshes I’ve dilated,
Until at last I’m sore
WO ladies to the summit of my
Have clomb, to hold an argument of love
The one has wisdom with her from above,
For every noblest virtue well designed:
He that loves a rosy
Or coral lip admires,
Or from star-like eyes doth
Fuel to maintain his fires ;
I.
She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright