American Poets and Poems
Allen Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg
Paterson, 3 juni 1926 - New York, 6 april 1997.
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Dylan Thomas
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas
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Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
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Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
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Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
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Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.
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Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
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And you, my father, there on that sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
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Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson.......
enkele fragmenten uit haar dichtwerk....
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Het Brein – is weidser dan de Lucht –
Het Brein is dieper dan de zee –
Het Brein weegt net zoveel als God –
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Ik zag een Stervend Oog
Alsmaar door een Kamer rennen –
Stanley Kunitz
Stanley Kunitz
Worcester (Massachusetts), 29 juli 1905
– New York City, 14 mei 2006.
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Ten tijde van zijn leven werd hij door
veel critici als de beste nog in
leven zijnde Amerikaanse dichter beschouwd.
Zijn poëzie werd en wordt dan ook alom geprezen.
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First Love by Stanley Kunitz
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At his incipient sun
The ice of twenty winters broke,
Crackling, in her eyes.
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Her mirroring, still mind,
That held the world (made double) calm,
Went fluid, and it ran.
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There was a stir of music,
Mixed with flowers, in her blood;
A swift impulsive balm
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From obscure roots;
Gold bees of clinging light
Swarmed in her brow.
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Her throat is full of songs,
She hums, she is sensible of wings
Growing on her heart.
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She is a tree in spring
Trembling with the hope of leaves,
Of which the leaves are tongues.
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