Jeremy Lipking – Thoughts of Summer – from lipking.com
The poet bids farewell to the child whose smile was the sweetest thing in his life, and she will remain his dearest memory. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
I present today my last selection from Underneath the Bough, a love poem in “The Third Book of Songs” in that collection. It must be understood within the context of the lesbian relation between the two authors, Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper. The poet loves a silent girl, but “her royal, jewelled speechlessness” does not mean that she does not reciprocate: “It were not right / To reckon her the poorer lover; / She does not love me less.” The two are like birds, looking for intimacy: “what is more dear / Than a cherry-bough, bees feeding near / In the soft, proffered blooms?” The young girl “is a dove” who must liberate herself from barriers and give herself fully to the power of love: “My close-housed bird should take her flight / To magnify our love.” CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
Odysseas Oikonomou – provient de poramoralarte-exposito.blogspot.com
Émile Blémont publia en 1904 Beautés étrangères, un recueil en deux parties. La première, intitulée Poèmes d’outre-mer et d’outre-monts, divisée en cinq sections, est constituée de poèmes ; la deuxième, intitulée Notes sur quelques Poètes anglais ou américains du XIXe siècle, est une série d’essais sur plusieurs poètes de langue anglaise. En frontispice, l’auteur écrit : CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
Doug Fitzgerald – Spring (1981) – provient de fitzgeraldspub.blogspot.com
Le poème qui suit est ma dernière sélection du recueil Les pommiers en fleur : idylles de France et de Normandie d’Émile Blémont. Il n’a pas de titre, il apparaît seulement avec son numéro VIII dans Chansons des champs, la deuxième partie. CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…
John Singer Sargent – The Honourable Victoria Stanley
Volume 2 of The works of Francis Thompson, Poems contains a section titled A Narrow Vessel, starting with the following description:
Being a little dramatic sequence on the aspect of primitive girl-nature towards a love beyond its capacities
It consists mostly of poems about unhappy love affairs with girls; they are often bitter and reproachful, sometimes telling of “sin.” CONTINUE READING / CONTINUER LA LECTURE…