Robert Frost (1874-1963). Mountain Interval. 1920.
Snow
THE THREE stood listening to a fresh access
Of wind that caught against the house a moment,
Gulped snow, and then blew free again Continue reading Snow
Category: Literature
In any type of writing, there are three possible points of view: 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, or me, you, and other. There are three periods of the English language’s history: Old, Middle, and Modern. And dramas traditionally have three parts: prot asis, epitasis, and catastrophe.
Three Counsellors
George William ("A. E.") Russell (1867-1935). Collected Poems by A.E. 1913.
Three Counsellors
IT was the fairy of the place,
Moving within a little light,
Who touched with dim and shadowy grace
The conflict at its fever height.
It seemed to whisper "Quietness," 5
Then quietly itself was gone:
Yet echoes of its mute caress
Were with me as the years went on.
It was the warrior within
Who called "Awake, prepare for fight: 10
Yet lose not memory in the din:
Make of thy gentleness thy might:
"Make of thy silence words to shake
The long-enthroned kings of earth:
Make of thy will the force to break 15
Their towers of wantonness and mirth."
It was the wise all-seeing soul
Who counselled neither war nor peace:
"Only be thou thyself that goal
In which the wars of time shall cease." 20
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Three Songs of Shattering
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950). Renascence and Other Poems. 1917.
Three Songs of Shattering
I
THE FIRST rose on my rose-tree
Budded, bloomed, and shattered,
During sad days when to me
Nothing mattered.
Grief of grief has drained me clean; 5
Still it seems a pity
No one saw, Continue reading Three Songs of Shattering
