Find and share the perfect poems.
I.
White petals afloat
On a winding woodland stream—
What else is life’s dream!
II.
Butterflies a-wing—
Are you flowers returning
To your branch in Spring?
III.
At new moon we met!
Two weeks I’ve waited in vain.
To-night!—Don’t forget.
IV.
Oh, red maple leaves,
There seem more of you these eves
Than ever grew on trees.
From Tanka and Haikai: Japanese Rhythms (1916) by Sadakichi Hartmann. These poems are in the public domain.
Sestine Enchainée
When autumn cloudlets fleck the sky
Straying southward like birds o’er the sea,
When the flickering sunlight on the dunes
Is pale, as seagrasses kissed by the spray,
Seagrasses that knew the summer of yesterday–
Sweet are the dreams on the breeze-blown strand!
The waves have lost their silvery note,
White birds of dreams o’er the dim plain start,
Through the mist is gliding a phantom bark––
What made love open its eyes and part!
to Maurice Maeterlinck
Weird phantoms rise in the dawn-winds blow,
In the land of shadows the dawn-flowers grow;
The night-worn moon yields her weary glow
To the morn-rays that over the dream-waste flow.