greykit.poetry — #blank-verse
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1920
[wilfred-owen]
Strange Meeting
Escaping down a tunnel out of battle, the speaker meets a sleeper who springs up and turns out to be the man he killed — and who mourns not his own death but the truth untold, the pity of war, the pity war distilled.
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1916
[robert-frost]
Birches
Ice storms bend the birches for good, but the poet would rather believe a boy did it — and wants the same for himself: to climb toward heaven until the tree sets him down again, since earth's the right place for love.
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1914
[robert-frost]
After Apple-Picking
The ladder still points at heaven and a barrel stands unfilled, but the picker is done — drowsing through a pane of hoary ice, magnified apples appearing and disappearing, unsure whether the coming sleep is the woodchuck's or just human sleep.
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1914
[robert-frost]
Mending Wall
Two men walk the line each spring putting back the stones that winter and hunters threw down. One keeps saying good fences make good neighbours; the other keeps wondering what he was walling in or walling out.
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1816
[lord-byron]
Darkness
Written in the sunless summer of 1816: the stars go out, men burn their cities for light and then their homes, the last two enemies die of each other's faces, and the universe is left darkness, without a wind.
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1798
[william-wordsworth]
Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798
Revisiting the Wye valley after five years, Wordsworth traces how nature's forms have sustained him in absence and shaped his moral being, closing with a prayer for his sister Dorothy.
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1667
[john-milton]
Paradise Lost, Book I
Book I of Milton's Paradise Lost — satan and the fallen angels rouse on the burning lake and raise Pandemonium.
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1667
[john-milton]
Paradise Lost, Book II
Book II of Milton's Paradise Lost — the infernal council debates revenge; Satan alone sets out for the new world.
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1667
[john-milton]
Paradise Lost, Book III
Book III of Milton's Paradise Lost — god foresees the Fall, the Son offers himself, and Satan wings toward Eden.
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1667
[john-milton]
Paradise Lost, Book IV
Book IV of Milton's Paradise Lost — satan enters Paradise and first beholds Adam and Eve in their innocence.
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1667
[john-milton]
Paradise Lost, Book IX
Book IX of Milton's Paradise Lost — the temptation and the Fall — Eve, and then Adam, eat the forbidden fruit.
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1667
[john-milton]
Paradise Lost, Book V
Book V of Milton's Paradise Lost — raphael, sent to warn Adam, begins the tale of the angels' revolt.
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1667
[john-milton]
Paradise Lost, Book VI
Book VI of Milton's Paradise Lost — the three-day war in Heaven and the Son's victory over the rebel host.
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1667
[john-milton]
Paradise Lost, Book VII
Book VII of Milton's Paradise Lost — raphael recounts the six days' Creation of the world.
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1667
[john-milton]
Paradise Lost, Book VIII
Book VIII of Milton's Paradise Lost — adam relates his own creation and discourse with God; Raphael departs.
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1667
[john-milton]
Paradise Lost, Book X
Book X of Milton's Paradise Lost — judgment is passed; Sin and Death bridge Chaos; discord enters the world.
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1667
[john-milton]
Paradise Lost, Book XI
Book XI of Milton's Paradise Lost — michael foretells to Adam the future woes that follow from sin.
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1667
[john-milton]
Paradise Lost, Book XII
Book XII of Milton's Paradise Lost — michael's prophecy of redemption through Christ; the expulsion from Paradise.