Violet Poems

Violet Poems

Ode XVIII, by Hafez

From the Divan Slaves of thy shining eyes are ...

The Image, by Anna de Noailles

POOR fawn in a dying trance,
In thy glazing e...

Boarding-House Episode, by Maxwell Bodenheim

Apples race into appetites:
The unswerving me...

Uneasy Reflections, by Maxwell Bodenheim

Determinedly peppered with signs,
The omnibus...

1915: The Trenches, by Conrad Aiken

I All night long, it has seemed for many year...

Violet Moore and Bert Moore, by Conrad Aiken

He thinks her little feet should pass
Where da...

The Book of Hours of Sister Clotilde, by Amy Lowell

The Bell in the convent tower swung.
High over...

The Shadow, by Amy Lowell

Paul Jannes was working very late,
For this w...

Sappho to Her Girlfriends, by Sappho

Fragments 34, 77, 76, 61, 71, 48, 86, 83...

Messaline, by Aleister Crowley

Beneath the living cross I lie
And swoon towar...

A Paean in the Springtide, by Aleister Crowley

Now is the triumph of Love, now is the day of ...

She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways, by William Wordsworth

She dwelt among the untrodden ways
Beside the ...

The Vowels, by Arthur Rimbaud

YE vowels, A black, E white, I red, U green...

Fiesole Idyl, by Walter Savage Landor

Here, where precipitate Spring, with one ligh...

I Cannot Tell, Not I, Why She, by Walter Savage Landor

I cannot tell, not I, why she
Awhile so grac...

There are Some Wishes that may Start, by Walter Savage Landor

There are some wishes that may start
Nor cloud...

Saturn, by Clark Ashton Smith

Now were the Titans gathered round their king
...

Gallus, by Virgil

This closing effort, Arethusa, aid;
A few b...

Georgic IV, by Virgil

Of air-born honey, gift of heaven, I now
Tak...

The Dead Child, by Francis Jammes

A small house with a dog in front..
O my love!...

Extreme Unction, by Donald Evans

Across the rotting pads in the lily lake
Her g...

The Birth of Light, by Albert Laighton

My form was hid in darkness; when the earth
Wa...

The Tress of Hair, by Albert Laighton

A single tress of golden hair;
A sacred relic...

Cleopatra, by Albert Samain

I LEANING in silence on the tower-rampart,
T...

No More for Lycus, by Alcaeus

No more for Lycus will I sigh,
Or seek his fo...