Classic Verse: King David to Coleridge: Recent Episodes

Arnold Logan

Join Canadian writer, Arnold Logan, as he reads poems he respects & admires.

Reach out to the reader at : arnold.fireandashpublishers@gmail.com

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This Poem by his friend, is the best in the language

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Contempary

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Psalms

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With one unexpected at the end.

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We find war and the future ,

On which we , like beasties, ruminate.

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We hear the end

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Is expounded upon with uncommon charm

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Here he extolls, Britain's Defeat of France

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Hebrew poetry translated in the 1930's

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to compare two singers of words

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As he Skewers the Court's minions.

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COMPOSED by King David

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BY a wise son,: John Philips

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John Philips praises wholesome earth

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Three verses on Fairies , the last emblematic , second nostalgic , and the first of deep moralitee

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Does Beauty bring you to your knees?

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Here is the Hymn to Venus

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And shapes words of gods in lyric fire

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How high humanity can aspire to be

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through sev'real centuries

I try to read

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Rhymes, fates die as cast.

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from his volume of early verse ,

he tells of one Heaven guided nurse.

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Three men in a tub,

sing: rub-a dub, dub.

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May you find your odd twenty filled

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As to , who rules the world, in love not from hate.

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And from various women and men's voices

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with erudition and imagination

Henry Moore perceives what Einstein proved

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One from Heaven, one from earth

Inspire mankind by sweet verse.

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backwards

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From Earth's woes free

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IAPrince amongst the Learned

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Ay, let none protest!

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and an end note from Herbert

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and over a half of  one Clifford's mythic  story

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dominates

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When  ?

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We'll not know his like again

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wrote verse that will survive

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end the  17th C and see the 18th cynical be

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They lie side by side /Dear Ovid and sweet Poe 

whose  music   thrives/ who'd guess shook hands , Odso 

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16th to 19th C : a few tasty treats

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some of the rarer sort

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Hear  this Roman host , from Ovid's best , through  Dryden's ghost 

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And Pope's fine friend , speaks here of those light years , and then of the end.

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We visit , an original partly copied : and some  loving practitioners  of Poetry

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For Ovid and Endymion , we hear a new begin'on

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Of Rochester and of Keats : some verse you may find neat , and of the first most indiscreet , but of the latter do ye know , he died from his  kindness , by a  cold blow

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does the hypocrite excoriate,

Did he write this from  Newgate?

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Feelings strong ; also strange?

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Let' us compare apples with  oranges , ah hem

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by way of Dryden's translation

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An Elegy

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One of Geo.Herbert and David's first ten Psalms

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We catch   some words  ,  by these rarest    kissed

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one improved another for modern ey's

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Dryden vs Wilmot

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This mon can make your hairs to curl

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The travel game can seem vain,

Still, Herbert and E.B.B never  art.

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ONE SONG TO LOVE from Elizabeth Barrett Browning 

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Friend to Donne

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The true Duke of Earl

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and other songs and ballades

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they both recall, for  all, the things divine

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fortune and love : Hypocrisy and duds. Simplicity rewarded by Heaven above

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the songs  to Roscommon's pen , such fine eulogies are , I faint through them  to wend.

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But , Rede I Litle of  some authors.

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Shenstone and Mallet : their words are carved on  paper  of granite

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three nations providing  art

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All men light of heart

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His  true arm is  infinitely long

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youth and age .

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Englands greatest Alexander

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to hear  Verse  characters:  like Denham, Dyer,  Granville and Lytellton

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from Chaucer revived , unmewed

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..."Likened to the silent animals."

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The early Thespian.

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Enter : and abandon fears

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Alongside some songs , some  scurrilous  , some  scandalous & salacious.

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When the great virgin Queen to Cupid did call

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More from the  Master of two arts: Sweet& bitter: W. Blake

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the Atlantic betwixt America and Albion

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A parable, a sonnet cycle , a song  and Shakepeare's 89th.

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Venus and Cupid

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Old Poe, Bountifull Spenser

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"They were thrust down and unable to arise"

From the songs composed in the court of David in Jerusalem

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A mess of Pottage for FEBRUARE (Spencer's Febuary ) ; and a touch of Ovid, by Merlin Marlow excavated.

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Im bad : one more translation but its by Marlowe; who could resist that? 

Plus : bonus apearances by the Great SpenStar , and the Donnybrook of Christian Loue : 

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Of Roscommon's Poetic bliss

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Hear  whate'er Dryden saw ,as  he in secret arbour lay

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Herein we read from Psalms

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"how dull and how insensible a beast

Is man, who yet would lord it over the rest"

Dryden

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Some words expressing yearnings and thunder

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Mellifluous author: Chaucer's 

Hous of Fame

Abrupt ending but will continue nexte weeke

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THE INSIGHTS OF REV. MOORE AND R. BLAIR 

FORMED AMONG TOMBS  , AMIDST THE NIGHT AIR

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Its Mitchell that has win it!

WITH HIS SATIRE AND PRAISE 

FOR MERIT THAT OUTSHINES THE DAY

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from  the 1720's :  Sev'ral  Jousts from  fine refine'd Gulliver's father   clouting  contemporarie's long snouts

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Donne

&

Hughes

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From the 4th book of Ovid's; Metamorphoses .

In the  vaunted verse of the assured 1520's translation  by Arthur Golding.

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"Slaughter  offerings of RIghteousness".

Psalm 4

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IO, IO : OLIVER ORACLE

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Praise  from  Pomfret . Wisdom  from Young . From  the earls of Rochester and  Roscommon ; two tributes; respectively, to a Princess  and  to a dog.

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Falconer ,Hughes and Shenstone: Mallet , Butler.

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mystic and less familiar verse from Will Blake

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we are found by Satan

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in vol.2 of Miltons' P.L.

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From the last prose writer an exploring on a relevant topic ,and, then  back to Donne dressing his thought and heart in prose

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LAMENTS OF CHAUCER, FAULKE GREVILLE, THOMAS WATSON,.  CAPPED WITH ONE  OF HAPPINESS BY ANON.

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SIr Philip SIdney, AND a bite from Chaucer, Praise from John Skelton

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" Beastly Skelton"

Pope

Plus some:

' poetry of good manners'

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A litle Chauc' is beste

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More from  David's canticles

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We dream  of life, friendship, love , winter and the fair breast and golden tresses of a Polish Laura

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from : Spain, Sweden ; from Italy and proud Portugal and more : some rarest sonnets

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These are the petticoats of Heaven

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Romantic sanity

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ballads, songs, laments:

Scott,Congreave,and Anon.

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From Duffy back to Herrick, no Heretick to love or God 

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HERE FOR YOU, ARE TWO OF THE GREAT MEN WHOSE NAMES START WITH S.

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Birdies of  Chaucer(e) 'jaculate Songe

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two from  both Swift and Mitchell , that they did compose

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MItchell to Blake: with roadhouse visits upon  path

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One from the man himself

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If Grey beath  light of thy Eye. Then plesance taketh from sweete Thomas; hear as I  crie

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Herein  hidden lies  a mysterious hint of the name: Dumbledore .

and we meet Satan's incestuous spawn

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A Skel(e)ton, A Moor(e), and a Scot(t)........

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Master jack

Two Jacks and a Jill

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'Be bold . Be bold, be not to Bold '

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Here be some West country versifiers :

1650-1880

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On a whim, I chose a water theme in verses exposed to the public in : The Bells

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from Faeries  to a tribute to Beaumont and Fletcher . lastly a sweet sonnet 

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the shortest yet, one verse by the eminent James Hogg

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Here are some early songs and one more famous from Songs of innocence

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as promised > in days of affliction.

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Lazy Sunday ode and a sonnet stray

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Edgar Allen

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Edmund Spenser: Podcast One.