Tag: poetry

“And Death Shall Have No Dominion” ~ The Imaginative Conservative

Poem by Dylan Thomas And death shall have no dominion./ Dead man naked they shall be one/ With the man in the wind and the west moon;/ When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone. — Read on theimaginativeconservative.org/2016/03/and-death-shall-have-no-dominion-dylan-thomas.html

Clarity and Obscurity: The Essences of Classical & Modern Poetry ~ The Imaginative Conservative

By Adam Sedia As a sustained artistic school, modernism cannot endure. But classical art is eternal because the ideas it expresses are eternal. A resurrection of classical form does not represent a return to the past, real or imagined, but instead a return to… Continue Reading “Clarity and Obscurity: The Essences of Classical & Modern Poetry ~ The Imaginative Conservative”

“I Years had been from Home” ~ The Imaginative Conservative: Emily Dickinson

I Years had been from Home/ And now before the Door/ I dared not enter, lest a Face/ I never saw before/ Stare solid into mine/ And ask my Business there… (poem by Emily Dickinson) — Read on theimaginativeconservative.org/2021/06/i-years-had-been-from-home-emily-dickinson.html

“The Tuft of Flowers” ~ The Imaginative Conservative: Robert Frost

By Robert Frost I went to turn the grass once after one / Who mowed it in the dew before the sun. / The dew was gone that made his blade so keen / Before I came to view the levelled scene… (poem by… Continue Reading ““The Tuft of Flowers” ~ The Imaginative Conservative: Robert Frost”

A Call to Reform: Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “The Cry of the Children” ~ The Imaginative Conservative: Bethany Getz

By Bethany Getz — Read on theimaginativeconservative.org/2021/06/call-reform-elizabeth-barrett-browning-cry-children-bethany-getz.html

“The Clod and the Pebble” ~ The Imaginative Conservative: William Blake

“Love seeketh not itself to please, / Nor for itself hath any care, / But for another gives its ease, / And builds a Heaven in Hell’s despair”… (poem by William Blake) — Read on theimaginativeconservative.org/2021/06/the-clod-and-the-pebble-william-blake.html

“As Kingfishers Catch Fire” ~ The Imaginative Conservative: Gerard Manley Hopkins

Gerard Manley Hopkins — Read on theimaginativeconservative.org/2021/05/as-kingfishers-catch-fire-gerard-manley-hopkins.html