Tag Archives: Poetry

1908: I Dreamed I Was my Husband

Posted on June 27, 2021 by corvusfugit

The following poem appeared in several publications in 1908: A Singular Tragedy I dreamed I was a lady, and I was wooed by Me. (The writer of this story you understand’s a He.) I dreamed (I say) I loved Me … Continue reading →

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1965: The Girl Who Took Care of the Turkeys

Posted on November 26, 2020 by corvusfugit

The Girl Who Took Care of the Turkeys Now we take it up. (audience)Ye——s indeed. There were villagers at the Middle Place and a girl had her home there at Wind Place where she kept a flock of turkeys. At … Continue reading →

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1950: Rumble at the Café des Poètes

Posted on August 26, 2020 by corvusfugit

Stolen poems incite a rumble in Jean Cocteau’s Orpheus (1950).

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1955: Tomorrow is Never

Posted on August 12, 2020 by corvusfugit

Kay Sage: Tomorrow is Never (1955) DESTINY If I turn back at least I shall not have the sun in my face. But then there will always be the long shadow of myself before me.

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1808: Squares Eight Times Eight

Posted on July 29, 2020 by corvusfugit

It was a fancy of the eccentric Mr. Pratt…to propose a game of Chess to a friend after dinner without Chessboard and men, and stipulate that instead of describing the moves with the usual prosaic abbreviations, a sort of poetical … Continue reading →

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2018: memo for labor

Posted on April 15, 2020 by corvusfugit

memo for labor you cannot separate the job from the house from the rent from the earth from the food from the healthcare from the water from the transit from the war from the schools from the prisons from the … Continue reading →

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1559: Not Man, Not Woman, Not Androgyne

Posted on October 5, 2019 by corvusfugit

This mysterious Latin inscription appears to be an epitaph composed in the 16th century by someone named or calling himself Lucio Agatho Priscius; the deceased was named Aelia Laelia Crispis. DM Aelia Laelia Crispis Nec vir nec mulier nec androgyna … Continue reading →

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1956: The Hound of Heaven

Posted on August 10, 2019 by corvusfugit

In 1893, English poet Francis Thompson published a poem called “The Hound of Heaven.” The work is an extended metaphor: as a hound pursues a hare in a hunt, so does God pursue the human soul to restore it to … Continue reading →

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1784: Whimsical Associations

Posted on July 12, 2019 by corvusfugit

From Paul Fussell’s Poetic Meter and Poetic Form (1965): “In ‘The Poplar Field’ …William Cowper…unwittingly allows the whimsical associations of triple meter to work against him.” The poplars are felled, farewell to the shade And the whispering sound of the … Continue reading →

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1899: O ye whales and all that move on the waters bless ye the Lord

Posted on May 7, 2019 by corvusfugit

Edward Arthur Fellowes Prynne: O ye whales and all that move on the waters bless ye the Lord (1899); from the Prayer of Azariah, a passage that appears in the book of Daniel in some versions of the Christian Bible: … Continue reading →

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