by admin | May 16, 2024 | Poems by Men, Secular/Modern Era
Far-off, most secret, and inviolate Rose,Enfold me in my hour of hours; where thoseWho sought thee in the Holy Sepulchre,Or in the wine-vat, dwell beyond the stirAnd tumult of defeated dreams; and deepAmong pale eyelids, heavy with the sleepMen have named beauty. Thy...
by admin | May 15, 2024 | Hindu, Poems by Men
My friend, I cannot answer when you ask me to explainwhat has befallen me.Love is transformed, renewed,each moment.He has dwelt in my eyes all the days of my life,yet I am not sated with seeing.My ears have heard his sweet voice in eternity,and yet it is always new to...
by admin | May 14, 2024 | Poems by Men, Secular/Modern Era
“If the dear faculty of sight should fail,Still, it may be allowed me to rememberWhat visionary powers of eye and soulIn youth were mine; when, stationed on the topOf some huge hill–expectant, I beheldThe sun rise up, from distant climes returnedDarkness...
by admin | May 13, 2024 | Christian, Poems by Men
Love beyond all telling,Goodness beyond imagining,Light of infinite intensityGlows in my heart.I once thought that reasonHad led me to You,And that through feelingI sensed Your presence,Caught a glimpse of You in similitudes,Knew You in Your perfection.I know now that...
by admin | May 13, 2024 | Muslim/Sufi, Poems by Men
At time’s beginningthat beautywhich polished creation’s mirrorcaressed every atomwith a hundred thousand suns.But this glorywas never witnessed.When the human eye emerged,only then was he known.
by admin | May 12, 2024 | Christian, Poems by Men
I would it were possible to state in sofew words my errand in the world: quite simplyforestalling all inquiry, the oak offers his leaveslargehandedly. And in winter his integral magnificent orderdecrees, says solemnly who he isin the great thrusting limbs that are all...
