A Farewell - by Lord Alfred Tennyson

A Farewell
by Lord Alfred Tennyson

Flow down, cold rivulet, to the sea,
Thy tribute wave deliver:
No more by thee my steps shall be,
For ever and for ever.

Flow, softly flow, by lawn and lea,
A rivulet then a river;
No where by thee my steps shall be,
For ever and for ever.

But here will sigh thine alder tree,
And here thine aspen shiver;
And here by thee will hum the bee,
For ever and for ever.

A thousand suns will stream on thee,
A thousand moons will quiver;
But not by thee my steps shall be,
For ever and for ever.


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The Fish - William Butler Yeats

The Fish
by William Butler Yeats

Although you hide in the ebb and flow
Of the pale tide when the moon has set,
The people of coming days will know
About the casting out of my net,
And how you have leaped times out of mind
Over the little silver cords,
And think that you were hard and unkind,
And blame you with many bitter words.



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Ishikawa Takuboku - Japanese Tanka Poem

The Tanka is a unique type of Japanese Waka poetry. This form was perfected at the beginning of the seventh century. Tanka is best seen in its original form from the Manyoshu anthology of poems produced in eighth century Japan. The poet's words are set into a 5-7-5-7-7 syllabic structure which is very evident in the poem below when read aloud.

Tokai no - kojima no iso no-shirasuna ni - Ware nakinurete - kani to tawamuru.
--Ishikawa Takuboku

Translation:
On the white sand of a rocky beach on a small island off the Tokai coast, Soaked in tears, I play with a crab.

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