The Concise Verse

The Concise Verse

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The Concise Verse episodes

  • "Epitaph for a Romantic Woman" by Louise Bogan
    She has attained the permanence She dreamed of, where old stones lie sunning. Untended stalks blow over her Even and swift, like young men running. Always in the heart she loved Others had lived,—she heard their laughter. She lies where none has lain before, Where certainly none will follow after.
    1 min
  • "Prime" by Amy Lowell

    YOUR voice is like bells over roofs at dawn When a bird flies And the sky changes to a fresher color. Speak, speak, Beloved. Say little things For my ears to catch And run with them to my heart.

    1 min
  • "Theology" by Paul Laurence Dunbar

    There is a heaven, for ever, day by day, The upward longing of my soul doth tell me so. There is a hell, I'm quite as sure; for pray If there were not, where would my neighbours go?

    1 min
  • "The Deep-Sea Pearl" by Edith M. Thomas
    The love of my life came not As love unto others is cast; For mine was a secret wound— But the wound grew a pearl, at last. The divers may come and go, The tides, they arise and fall; The pearl in its shell lies sealed, And the Deep Sea covers all.
    1 min
  • "Dooryard Roses" by Sara Teasdale

    I HAVE come the selfsame path To the selfsame door, Years have left the roses there Burning as before. While I watch them in the wind Quick the hot tears start— Strange so frail a flame outlasts Fire in the heart.

    1 min
  • "A Jelly-Fish" by Marianne Moore

    Visible, invisible, A fluctuating charm, An amber-colored amethyst Inhabits it; your arm Approaches, and It opens and It closes; You have meant To catch it, And it shrivels; You abandon Your intent— It opens, and it Closes and you Reach for it— The blue Surrounding it Grows cloudy, and It floats away From you.

    1 min
  • "The Net of Law" by James Jeffrey Roche

    The net of law is spread so wide, No sinner from its sweep may hide.

    Its meshes are so fine and strong, They take in every child of wrong.

    O wondrous web of mystery! Big fish alone escape from thee!

    1 min

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Where brevity meets beauty - a new poem every week.