post your favorite poems

[Anonymous No.12112898]

Spell Eva back and Ave shall you find,
The first began, the last reversed our harms:
An angel's witching words did Eva blind,
An angel's Ave disenchants the charms:
Death first by woman's weakness entered in,
In woman's virtue life doth now begin.
- St. Robert Southwell

[Anonymous No.12112936]

I've been obsessed with this one lately.

[Anonymous No.12113850]

Take it easy, Sadness. Settle down.
You asked for evening. Now, it’s come. It’s here.
A choking fog has blanketed the town,
infecting some with calm, the rest with fear.

While the squalid throng of mortals feels the sting
of heartless pleasure swinging its barbed knout
and finds remorse in slavish partying,
take my hand, Sorrow. I will lead you out,

away from them. Look as the dead years lurch,
in tattered clothes, from heaven’s balconies.
From the depths, regret emerges with a grin.

The spent sun passes out beneath an arch,
and, shroudlike, stretched from the antipodes,
—hear it, O hear, love!—soft night marches in.

[Anonymous No.12114805]

The Sensitive Plant by Percy Bysshe Shelley

https://kalliope.org/en/text/shelley2003060601

[Anonymous No.12114819]

the Phoenix and the Turtle blew me away. I dont even get it but it made me almost cry (I read it drunk) and it made my brain tingle like a math problem would. Its the only poem I read several times immediately after reading it.

I also had an insane prose dream the night I read it, which included the line "it was like a blind man entrusting the writing of his will to another" and a violent image of a child bleeding from its navel.