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The term "o beauty are you not enough" has been searched for 39 times on the American Poems site since May 2nd, 2007.
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3. Divinely Superfluous Beauty - written by Robinson Jeffers
Read 1625 times on American Poems.
The storm-dances of gulls, the barking game of seals,
Over and under the ocean ...
Divinely superfluous beauty
Rules the games, presides over destinies, makes trees grow
And hills tower, waves fall.
The incredible beauty of joy
Stars with fire the... (Read full poem)
4. I died for Beauty -- but was scarce - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 13851 times on American Poems.
I died for Beauty -- but was scarce
Adjusted in the Tomb
When One who died for Truth, was lain
In an adjoining room --
He questioned softly "Why I failed"?
"For Beauty", I replied --
"And I -- for Truth -- Themself are One --
We Brethren, are", He... (Read full poem)
5. Sonnet on an Alpine Night - written by Dorothy Parker
From Death and Taxes.
Published in 1931.
Read 2922 times on American Poems.
My hand, a little raised, might press a star-
Where I may look, the frosted peaks are spun,
So shaped before Olympus was begun,
Spanned each to each, now, by a silver bar.
Thus to face Beauty have I traveled far,
But now, as if around my heart were... (Read full poem)
7. To E. - written by Sara Teasdale
Read 1402 times on American Poems.
I have remembered beauty in the night,
Against black silences I waked to see
A shower of sunlight over Italy
And green Ravello dreaming on her height;
I have remembered music in the dark,
The clean swift brightness of a fugue of Bach's,
And... (Read full poem)
8. Sonnet XI - written by Alan Seeger
Read 352 times on American Poems.
When among creatures fair of countenance
Love comes enformed in such proud character,
So far as other beauty yields to her,
So far the breast with fiercer longing pants;
I bless the spot, and hour, and circumstance,
That wed desire to a... (Read full poem)
9. To tell the Beauty would decrease - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 1553 times on American Poems.
To tell the Beauty would decrease
To state the Spell demean --
There is a syllable-less Sea
Of which it is the sign --
My will endeavors for its word
And fails, but entertains
A Rapture as of Legacies --
Of introspective Mines --(Read full poem)
10. Assault - written by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Read 3279 times on American Poems.
I
I had forgotten how the frogs must sound
After a year of silence, else I think
I should not so have ventured forth alone
At dusk upon this unfrequented road.
II
I am waylaid by Beauty. Who will walk
Between me and the crying of the frogs?
Oh,... (Read full poem)
11. Beauty -- be not caused -- It Is -- - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 2617 times on American Poems.
Beauty -- be not caused -- It Is --
Chase it, and it ceases --
Chase it not, and it abides --
Overtake the Creases
In the Meadow -- when the Wind
Runs his fingers thro' it --
Deity will see to it
That You never do it --(Read full poem)
12. The Definition of Beauty is - written by Emily Dickinson
From Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Published in 1955.
Read 7599 times on American Poems.
The Definition of Beauty is
That Definition is none --
Of Heaven, easing Analysis,
Since Heaven and He are one.(Read full poem)
14. There was, before me - written by Stephen Crane
From The Black Riders & Other Lines.
Published in 1905.
Read 5298 times on American Poems.
There was, before me,
Mile upon mile
Of snow, ice, burning sand.
And yet I could look beyond all this,
To a place of infinite beauty;
And I could see the loveliness of her
Who walked in the shade of the trees.
When I gazed,
All was lost
But this... (Read full poem)
15. Sonnet 04 - written by Alan Seeger
Read 571 times on American Poems.
If I was drawn here from a distant place,
'Twas not to pray nor hear our friend's address,
But, gazing once more on your winsome face,
To worship there Ideal Loveliness.
On that pure shrine that has too long ignored
The gifts that once I... (Read full poem)
16. The Death Of Autumn - written by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Read 3672 times on American Poems.
When reeds are dead and a straw to thatch the marshes,
And feathered pampas-grass rides into the wind
Like aged warriors westward, tragic, thinned
Of half their tribe, and over the flattened rushes,
Stripped of its secret, open, stark and... (Read full poem)
17. Virginibus Puerisque . . . - written by Alan Seeger
Read 325 times on American Poems.
I care not that one listen if he lives
For aught but life's romance, nor puts above
All life's necessities the need to love,
Nor counts his greatest wealth what Beauty gives.
But sometime on an afternoon in spring,
When dandelions dot... (Read full poem)
18. Leonora - written by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Read 535 times on American Poems.
They have made for Leonora this low dwelling in the ground,
And with cedar they have woven the four walls round.
Like a little dryad hiding she’ll be wrapped all in green,
Better kept and longer valued than by ways that would have been.... (Read full poem)
19. Villanelle: The Psychological Hour - written by Ezra Pound
Read 2795 times on American Poems.
I had over prepared the event,
that much was ominous.
With middle-ageing care
I had laid out just the right books.
I had almost turned down the pages.
Beauty is so rare a thing.
So few drink of my fountain.
So much barren regret,
So many... (Read full poem)
20. Sonnet XIV - written by Alan Seeger
Read 313 times on American Poems.
IT may be for the world of weeds and tares
And dearth in Nature of sweet Beauty's rose
That oft as Fortune from ten thousand shows
One from the train of Love's true courtiers
Straightway on him who gazes, unawares,
Deep wonder seizes and... (Read full poem)
21. Manhole Covers - written by Karl Shapiro
From Selected Poems.
Read 2001 times on American Poems.
The beauty of manhole covers--what of that?
Like medals struck by a great savage khan,
Like Mayan calendar stones, unliftable, indecipherable,
Not like the old electrum, chased and scored,
Mottoed and sculptured to a turn,
But notched and whelked... (Read full poem)
22. Sonnet 01: Thou Art Not Lovelier Than Lilacs,—No - written by Edna St. Vincent Millay
From Renascence and Other Poems.
Published in 1917.
Read 3741 times on American Poems.
Thou art not lovelier than lilacs,—no,
Nor honeysuckle; thou art not more fair
Than small white single poppies,—I can bear
Thy beauty; though I bend before thee, though
From left to right, not knowing where to go,
I turn my troubled... (Read full poem)
23. Chiarascuro: Rose - written by Conrad Aiken
Read 2290 times on American Poems.
He
Fill your bowl with roses: the bowl, too, have of crystal.
Sit at the western window. Take the sun
Between your hands like a ball of flaming crystal,
Poise it to let it fall, but hold it still,
And meditate on the beauty of your existence;... (Read full poem)
24. The Rhodora - written by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Read 4251 times on American Poems.
On being asked, Whence is the flower?
In May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes,
I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods,
Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp nook,
To please the desert and the sluggish brook.
The purple petals, fallen in... (Read full poem)
25. The Rhodora - written by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Read 3559 times on American Poems.
On Being Asked, Whence Is The Flower?
In May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes,
I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods,
Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp nook,
To please the desert and the sluggish brook.
The purple petals, fallen in the... (Read full poem)
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