Date: 1922
"You yielded to my touch with gentle grace, / And though my passion was a mighty wave / That buried you beneath its strong embrace, / You were yet happy in the moment's grave."
preview | full record— McKay, Claude (1889-1948)
Date: 1922
"The joy in your maturity at length, / The peace that filled my soul like cooling wine, / When you responded to my tender strength, / And pressed your heart exulting into mine."
preview | full record— McKay, Claude (1889-1948)
Date: 1922
"The mists will shroud me on the utter height, / The salty, brimming waters of my breast / Will mingle with the fresh dews of the night / To bathe my spirit hankering to rest."
preview | full record— McKay, Claude (1889-1948)
Date: 1940
"In the deserts of the heart / Let the healing fountain start."
preview | full record— Auden, W. H. (1907-1973)
Date: 1959
"Still beneath / Live skin stone breathes, about which fires but play, / Fierce heart that is the iced brain's to command / To judgment -- studied reflex, contained breath) -- / Their best of worlds since, on the ordained day, / This world went spinning from Jehovah's hand."
preview | full record— Hill, Geoffrey (b. 1932)
Date: 1990
"The noise the body makes / when the body meets / the soul over the soul's ocean and penumbra / is the old sound of up-and-down, in-and-out, / a lump of muscle chug-chugging blood / into the ear; a lover's / heart-shaped tongue; / flesh rocking flesh until flesh comes; / the butcher working / at ...
preview | full record— Lee, Li-Young (b .1957)
Date: 2002
"The river rises in the mind, but empties nowhere, / Its hair naked in naked branches."
preview | full record— Wright, Charles (b. 1935)
Date: 2015
"And yes, mortal knells / in sleepless hours, hollow knocks of empty / boats against a dock but still the mind / is a meadow, the heart an ocean even though / it burns."
preview | full record— Young, Dean (b. 1955)