She might, so noble from head 
To great shapely knees 
The long flowing line, 
Have walked to the altar 
Through the holy images 
At pallas Athene's Side, 
Or been fit spoil for a centaur 
Drunk with the unmixed wine. 

 
Elle pourrait, ainsi le noble de la tête à de grands genoux bien 
faits la longue ligne débordante, avoir marché à l'autel par les 
images saintes sur le côté d'Athene de pallas, ou avoir été a 
équipé le corrompre pour un centaure ivre du vin pur. 

 
Sie konnte, also paßte Adliger vom Kopf zu den großen shapely Knien 
die lange flüssige Linie, zum Altar durch die heiligen Bilder an der 
Seite pallas Athenes gegangen zu sein, oder gewesen zu sein Schmutz 
für einen Zentaur, der mit dem unmixed Wein getrunken wurde. 

 
Pôde, assim que o nobre da cabeça aos joelhos shapely grandes a 
linha fluindo longa, para ter andado ao altar com as imagens holy no 
lado de Athene dos pallas, ou para ter sido coube o spoil para um 
centaur bebido com o vinho unmixed. 

 
Ella pudo, así que el noble de la cabeza a las grandes rodillas bien 
proporcionadas la línea que fluía larga, haber caminado al altar con 
las imágenes santas en el lado de Athene de los pallas, o haber sido 
cupo los escombros para un centaur bebido con el vino puro. 

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  This does not imply that poetry is illogical or lacks narration, but rather that poetry is an attempt to render the beautiful or sublime without the burden of engaging the logical or narrative thought process. English ...... (1849), Walt Whitman (1865), Louis Gallet (lived 1835–98), Antonio Machado (1903), Juan Ramón Jiménez (1914), William Butler Yeats (1916), Rainer Maria Rilke (1922), Virginia Woolf (1927), Federico García Lorca (1935), Kamau Brathwaite (born 1930).
• hey are you there by apurva nupur (2009/11/15 03:17)

  In more developed, closed or "received" poetic forms, the rhyming scheme, meter and other elements of a poem are based on sets of rules, ranging from the relatively loose rules that govern the construction of an elegy to .... Each couplet forms a complete thought and stands alone, and the overall ghazal often reflects on a theme of unattainable love or divinity. .... Notable practitioners have included Propertius (lived ca. .... Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams.
• And I <b>thought</b>, Suppose one of them had an omniscient valet? by Levi Stahl (2009/11/11 14:17)

  In addition to admirably fulfilling his role as skilled and urbane butler, it soon became clear that Thurston was a man of startling learning. ... Though we all knew this line, no one of us could remember the name of the poet.
• Edward&#39;s Educational <b>thoughts</b> on Literacy: EZRA POUND and the <b>...</b> by Edward Yablonsky (2009/11/04 22:10)

  Edward's Educational thoughts on Literacy ..... (1908)Cantos I-XVI (1925)Cantos LII-LXXI (1940)Cantos XVII-XXVII (1928)Canzoni (1911)Exultations (1909)Homage to Sextus Propertius (1934)Lustra and Other Poems (1917)Patria Mia (1950) Personae (1909)Provenca (1910)Quia Pauper Amavi ... Pound believed that William Butler Yeats was the greatest living poet, and befriended him in England.[7] He eventually became Yeats's secretary, and soon became mildly ...
• A <b>Thought from Propertius</b> (by WB <b>Yeats</b>) - Crisis Chronicles Online <b>...</b> by Jesus Crisis (2009/11/03 08:02)

  Send 1 to 5 of your best poems or stories for consideration to editor John Burroughs. New work is preferred. However, previously published works and simultaneous ..... File:William Butler Yeat by George Charles Beresford.jpg 1911 photo of William Butler Yeats by George Charles Beresford. A Thought from Propertius by William Butler Yeats from The Wild Swans at Coole (1919) She might, so noble from head. To great shapely knees. The long flowing line, ...
• The faintest restless rustling ran all through them by Levi Stahl (2009/10/24 11:26)

  It's a two-part poem, the first part being a dialogue poem, which isn't my favorite of Frost's forms; their vernacular often feels too folksy, and their willingness to sacrifice sound and line construction to the prosaic functions of the story they're telling can be frustrating. In "Two Witches," however, the form works: offering a flickering, October-dark ... How could that be--I thought the dead were souls, He broke my trance. Don't that make you suspicious. That there's something ...
• Ivebeenreadinglately: Longfellow on haunted houses by Levi Stahl (2009/10/08 04:08)

  When I was searching for the lines from Nathaniel Hawthorne that I quoted in Sunday's post, I turned to the latter anthology, and on the same page with Hawthorne I found the following passage from a poem by Longfellow, ...
• Of <b>Poetry</b>: Ezra Pound (A Modernist <b>Poet</b>)* by John W. May (2009/10/01 10:40)

  Through his "creative translations" of Chinese poems in Cathay (1915) and his "Homage to Sextus Propertius" (1918 and 1919) Pound's characteristic mature style gradually emerged. By the time Hugh Selwyn Mauberley appeared in 1920, with its echoes of Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred .... William Butler Yeats. William Butler Yeats But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
• He recited his favourite <b>poetry</b> at inordinate length by Levi Stahl (2009/09/20 18:06)

  He declaimed forcefully on subjects of his own choosing, and recited his favourite poetry at inordinate length. Boswell was struck by the force of Lonsdale's physiognomy, his utterance, his memory. He perceived that several of ...
• <b>poem</b>: kabita or <b>poem</b> by aka santosh (2009/09/13 23:03)

  This does not imply that poetry is illogical or lacks narration, but rather that poetry is an attempt to render the beautiful or sublime without the burden of engaging the logical or narrative thought process. English ...... (1849), Walt Whitman (1865), Louis Gallet (lived 1835–98), Antonio Machado (1903), Juan Ramón Jiménez (1914), William Butler Yeats (1916), Rainer Maria Rilke (1922), Virginia Woolf (1927), Federico García Lorca (1935), Kamau Brathwaite (born 1930).
• iznanew: <b>POETRY</b> by PINK SMILE (2009/06/16 21:25)

  This does not imply that poetry is illogical or lacks narration, but rather that poetry is an attempt to render the beautiful or sublime without the burden of engaging the logical or narrative thought process. ...... (1849), Walt Whitman (1865), Louis Gallet (lived 1835–98), Antonio Machado (1903), Juan Ramón Jiménez (1914), William Butler Yeats (1916), Rainer Maria Rilke (1922), Virginia Woolf (1927), Federico García Lorca (1935), Kamau Brathwaite (author born 1930).
• Ivebeenreadinglately: Talk amongst yourselves, or, Here&#39;s the <b>...</b> by Levi Stahl (2009/05/27 04:33)

  This is my first issue as poetry editor, and there's plenty there to distract you while I'm gone. I think you'll ... I'm in there, too, of course, reviewing a new collection of translations of Kazuko Shiraishi's recent poems. And that's just ...
• Ivebeenreadinglately: Memorial Day by Levi Stahl (2009/05/25 05:00)

  For Memorial Day, one of the simplest, most controlled poems of Walt Whitman, taken from his collection of Civil War poems, Drum Taps : Dirge for Two Veterans. The last sunbeam. Lightly falls from the finish'd Sabbath, ...
• Ivebeenreadinglately: The <b>poetic</b> work of prepositions by Levi Stahl (2009/04/29 04:07)

  The mind is, after all, what they represent, the turnings and turnings of the speaker's thought. The poem is in one sense the old meditation on a scene, but where we might expect Schiff to draw back from the wedding cake and ...
• Ivebeenreadinglately: "Ten cups, and still we are not drunk," or <b>...</b> by Levi Stahl (2009/04/21 17:06)

  I suppose it's possible that the speaker's assertions are here less than straightforward; one could read this poem as an attempt by the speaker, who has come down in the world, to convince, not just us, but himself as well, ...
• Arcada-Arch: List of Publications by nourjahad (2009/04/11 18:37)

  Ian Probstein (2011) Journal of Poets “A Talk Show,” & «Ток-шоу» [A Talk Show], a poem written in English and translated into Russian by the author (a bilingual publication). Journal of Poets 112 (33, .... Natalia Osminskaia. “Undivine Comedy: Ezra Pound Assimilated World Literature from Propertius to Confucius. ..... Thoughts About the Conceptual Russian Poetry. (A response to the ... William Butler Yeats A selection of poems translated into Russian. Fleita Evterpy ...
• Ivebeenreadinglately: Literary biography and <b>poetry</b> on command by Levi Stahl (2009/04/03 11:21)

  What literature fan could fail to thrill at the thought of the rainy summer of 1816, when the Shelleys and Lord Byron wrote ghost stories to assuage their cabin fever, and Mary Shelley produced Frankenstein ? Holmes is ...
• 叶芝诗歌全集(目录) - 死域- 博客大巴 by NightBringer (2009/03/10 16:47)

  William Butler Yeats 诗人生平 威廉?勃特勒?叶芝（William Butler Yeats，1865-1939）爱尔兰诗人、剧作家。 生于都柏林一个画师家庭，自小喜爱诗画艺术，并对乡间的秘教法术颇感兴趣。1884年就读于都柏林艺术学校，不久违背父愿，抛弃画布和油彩， 专意于诗歌创作。1888年 .... Fresh from school and in his early twenties now, I was full of thought, often very abstract thought, longing all the while to be full of images, because I had gone to the art school instead of a university.
• Ivebeenreadinglately: You may be done with 2666, but 2666 isn&#39;t <b>...</b> by Levi Stahl (2008/11/22 14:12)

  It seems to me that the best poems here are the longer narratives and persona poems (adopting the voices of others). ... I, too, thought the best poems were ones where Bolano, in a sense, gave over the mic to other voices.
• Ezra Pound: Biography from Answers.com by unknown (2008/10/30 07:55)

  Through his "creative translations" of Chinese poems in Cathay (1915) and his "Homage to Sextus Propertius" (1918 and 1919) Pound's characteristic mature style gradually emerged. By the time Hugh Selwyn Mauberley appeared in 1920, with its .... As William Butler Yeats said of Pound's villains, he presents them as "malignants with inexplicable characteristics and motives, grotesque figures out of a child's book of beasts." Pound's best known slogan was "Make it new!" He might ...
• Ivebeenreadinglately: A brief sojourn in lit-nerd heaven . . . with <b>...</b> by Levi Stahl (2008/09/12 19:15)

  Even more fun is this entry, which presents a dialogue recalled by Joel Benton between Poe and poet William Ross Wallace on the streets of New York, shortly after Poe had completed "The Raven": "Wallace," said Poe, "I have just written the ... I tell you it's the greatest poem that was ever written." I don't know what strikes me more in this exchange, the thought of Poe reading "The Raven" aloud in his "impressive and captivating way"--what that must have been like!
• Ezra Pound - New World Encyclopedia by unknown (2008/09/05 00:00)

  When he moved to London, Pound began to cast off archaic, overtly poetic language and forms in an attempt to remake himself as a poet under the influence of Ford Madox Ford and T. E. Hulme. Believing William Butler Yeats ...
• Ivebeenreadinglately: Sybille Bedford&#39;s A Legacy by Levi Stahl (2008/08/14 07:30)

  They were bored by the abstract, bored by letters, and their acceptance of thought was confined to acceptance of thought about things. ... This scene, where the patriarch, some cousins, assorted other family members, and the butler discuss the extravagant gambling debts run up by the eldest son, Eduard, shows the mix of obliviousness, confusion, and petty cruelty that reigns in the house; it also serves well to demonstrate Bedford's light touch with comic dialogue: ...
• OMG isn&#39;t The Savage Detectives like the best thing ever ever ever? by Levi Stahl (2008/06/12 20:01)

  If you'd described the bare bones of Bolano's novel to me--young Bohemian Mexican and South American poets wander Mexico City and the world smoking, drinking, fucking, disputing about poetry, and cadging money to support those activities --I would never have imagined it to be my kind of book. I read On the Road at ... Instead, as I continue to bob in the eddies of Bolano's masterpiece, I'm inclined to just share some disconnected thoughts. 1 I've long held to a ...
• Ivebeenreadinglately: Connolly on "the mellow Stoicism" of Lord <b>...</b> by Levi Stahl (2008/03/06 19:23)

  Connolly, attuned to the "transitional age full of a certain beautiful clumsiness" in which Lord Chesterfield wrote poetry and wonderfully amoral letters to his bastard son, finds Chesterfield sympathetic; Shellabarger, on strictly ...
• Ivebeenreadinglately: Ah, imagine having a president who was "a <b>...</b> by Levi Stahl (2008/02/18 21:21)

  Lincoln is reported to have improvised a prank while in New Salem that sounds as though it were inspired by Burns's poems. As Row Herndon told it,. there was a man that use ... Many components went into his ascendance as a politician-- including, in a reminder that looks, of a sort, have always mattered in politics, his height and strength--but this list from his Springfield acquaintance William Butler is a nice, brief summary: Asked why Lincoln was regarded as a good ...
• Ivebeenreadinglately: Edmund Wilson on Abraham Lincoln by Levi Stahl (2008/01/17 19:12)

  Sandburg imagined Lincoln's mother's nipples! And he compared baby Abe's chewing on them to the singing of birds! I can picture a writer--especially one who is a folksy poet at heart--getting caught up in a rush of words and ...
• Ivebeenreadinglately: "Your whisky has made you original." by Levi Stahl (2007/11/26 21:39)

  Indeed I think you and Burns have derived a great advantage from this, that being poets, and drinkers of wine, you have had a new potation to rely upon. Your whisky has made you original. I have always thought it a fine liquor ...
• Ivebeenreadinglately: Catching up on some sewing by Levi (2007/08/16 20:29)

  But today, while reading Tim Page's article about his Asperger's syndrome in the newest issue of the New Yorker, I came across a line that brought Herbert's poem to mind: in noting the tenacity of his friendships, Page says, ...
• Ivebeenreadinglately: On a huge hill, cragg&#39;d and steep, Truth stands by Levi (2007/08/10 19:46)

  At one point, Donne was angling for a secretarial position with a colonial expedition to Virginia, which leads me to marvel at the thought of Donne's poetic impressions of the American wilderness and the hardships of colonial ...
• Some passing <b>thoughts</b> on a passing state, that of ecstatic joy by Levi Stahl (2007/07/12 19:08)

  The thought came to me as I read the following scene, in which Olenin, a young Russian nobleman who has traded his dissipated Moscow life for service in the Caucasus, achieves a near mystical state of joy on a hunting trip ...
• Ivebeenreadinglately: Octavia <b>Butler&#39;s</b> vampires by Levi Stahl (2006/09/07 18:28)

  The first, Octavia Butler's Fledgling (2005) (which, strictly speaking, isn't sci-fi, but as it gets shelved with Butler's other books in sci-fi, that's how I was thinking about it as I picked it up), opens with an adolescent woman coming ...
• Ivebeenreadinglately: A Useless Window by Levi Stahl (2006/05/23 13:54)

  The poem that opens the book, “On Leaving: An Essay”(which is available in its entirety here), begins by attempting the impossible: to order, in outline form, the elements of a leaving. So we get what remains (the dust of the ...
• Ivebeenreadinglately: Marlowe and Millay by Levi Stahl (2006/05/17 19:39)

  And now I realize that “First Fig” wasn't quite the right poem to refer to when writing about Marlowe. On leaving Cambridge, Marlowe most likely had the option of using his connections and degree to get himself a comfortable ...
• Ivebeenreadinglately: Footsteps by thatbob (2006/03/25 15:05)

  Anyway, here's that part of the poem. Once, while I walked with my father, a man reached out, touched his arm, said Kuo Yuan? The way he stared and spoke my father's name, I thought he meant to ask, Are you a dream?
• Accounts receivable, or <b>thoughts</b> of life and death by Levi Stahl (2006/02/16 13:46)

  On Herman's desk she placed the precious bread box containing his unpublished manuscripts, from which she would extract a poem or two, or a few pages of [the then unpublished] Billy Budd, to show to some interested guest. Ecclesiasticus 41 :1-3. O death, how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a man that ... William Hazlitt, "The Fight" (1822), collected in On the Pleasure of Hating. Even a highwayman, in the way of trade, may blow out your brains, but if he uses ...
• Ivebeenreadinglately: Immortality, or Ozymandias Roolz by Levi Stahl (2005/12/16 07:47)

  Maybe that's an English term--that's where I'm familiar with it from, although I thought that was just because all of London is always under construction, so there are construction hoardings everywhere. It's the wooden or sheetrock wall ... Ironically, as a result of archeological finds years after Shelley wrote the poem, Ozymandias -- a.k.a. Ramses II -- is now very well-remembered by humanity, probably second only to Tutankhamen among the pharaohs. ReplyDelete ...
• Rablè International/ Ezra Pound/ “The what is so much more <b>...</b> by claudio.rable (2005/01/13 17:00)

  You once wrote that you had four useful hints from living literary predecessors, who were Thomas Hardy, William Butler Yeats, Ford Madox Ford, and Robert Bridges. What were these hints? .... It really is “Contacts and Life.” Wadsworth seemed to think “Propertius” difficult because it was about Rome, so one applied the same thing to the contemporary outside. ... No, I went to London because I thought Yeats knew more about poetry than anybody else. I made my life in London by going ...
• Laudator Temporis Acti: <b>Yeats</b> and <b>Propertius</b> by Michael Gilleland (2004/12/18 03:11)

  Yeats and Propertius. William Butler Yeats, A Thought From Propertius: She might, so noble from head. To great shapely knees. The long flowing line, Have walked to the altar. Through the holy images. At Pallas Athene's side, Or been fit spoil for a Centaur Drunk with the unmixed wine. ... by Propertius that inspired Yeats is 2.2 (tr. A.S. Kline), in which the poet says that a certain pretty girl is more beautiful than any goddess he can imagine: I was free, and thought to ...
• hypochondria: 2003-03-09 by sho (2003/03/09 07:23)

  In the short term it provoked his first major poems, 'Homage to Sextus Propertius' (1919) and Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1921). These two ironic .... I dare say it is meaningless unless one has drifted into a certain vein of thought. I a poem of ... From 1908 to 1920, he resided in London, where he associated with many writers, including William Butler Yeats, for whom he worked as a secretary, and T.S. Eliot, whose Waste Land he drastically edited and improved. He was a ...
• The Second Coming by <b>William Butler Yeats</b> - Silzer&#39;s English <b>...</b> by jcomfort (2001/01/31 17:00)

  The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats. Sh Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, ...

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