Poems
15.03.2010 / 03.47 am
 
by James Kenneth Stephen
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Two voices are there: one is of the deep;
It learns the storm-cloud's thunderous melody,
Now roars, now murmurs with the changing sea,
Now bird-like pipes, now closes soft in sleep:
And one is of an old half-witted sheep
Which bleats articulate monotony,
And indicates that two and one are three,
That grass is green, lakes damp, and mountains steep:
And, Wordsworth, both are thine: at certain times
Forth from the heart of thy melodious rhymes,
The form and pressure of high thoughts will burst:
At other times -- good Lord! I'd rather be
Quite unacquainted with the A.B.C.
Than write such hopeless rubbish as thy worst.


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A Parodist's Apology

If I've dared laugh at you, Robert Browning,
'Tis with eyes that with you have often wept:
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The Ballade Of The Incompetent Ballade-monger

I am not ambitious at all:
I am not a poet, I know
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Men And Women

1. IN THE BACKS.

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The Window

She looks out in the blue morning
and sees a whole wonderful world
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Elizabeth Of Bohemia

You meaner beauties of the night,
That poorly satisfy our eyes
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Plowman's Song

Turn under, plow,
My trouble;
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For Ariva

You Eyes, you large and all-inquiring Eyes.
That look so dubiously into me,
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First Day At School

A millionbillionwillion miles from home
Waiting for the bell to go. (To go where?)
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