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Metaphysical poetry

Does thy song lull the air?

Thy falling tears keep faithful time.

Crashaw, “The Weeper”

May 4, 2026 jonathanmorse
blackcateyeMetaphysical poetrypoetryRichard Crashaw

Obscene utterance

In words, an utterance imbued with hatred of the uttering body: Edward Taylor’s “A Fig for Thee Oh! Death.”

Without a need for utterance and therefore hateless:

https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/fig-thee-oh-death

 

June 21, 2023 jonathanmorse
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Shining no where, but in the dark

Henry Vaughan, “They are all gone into the world of light!”
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December 8, 2022 jonathanmorse
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