Forgotten Poems From Ages Past

Dedicated primarily to recording old poems I discover while antiquing and exploring the dusty shelves of my local libraries.

[kazoosandfannypacks]

maybe i won't be a failure | but maybe | just for today | i need to be allowed to be

ON PERFECTIONISM • SPILLED STARDUST GIFSETS • SPILLED STARDUST VOLUME I • FOR @misscrazyfangirl321

[shalomyall]

A poem by Hanna Yerushalmi.

[jtownraindancer]

"Tomorrow comes so quickly now, and I tend to forget there was ever a yesterday."

-'Twill Be Alright Come Mornin' Luv, Irene Hope-Hendrick

[thespacebetweenmyfingers-poetry]

And that's a wrap!

The full pdf of TSBMF is available on ko-fi for free! There's a zine version which has been formatted for double sided printing so you can saddle-stitch it at home with a regular office printer!

Download it here!

Thank you all for your contributions and the submissions to this incredible collection!

Here's a full list of the contributors :) This project would not have been possible without you!!!

[bubblyernie]

HEY EVERYONE!!! Check out the final collection of poems and art from this project I organized :D it’s so sick, AND there’s a zine version to download too!

[jtownraindancer]

FOR FREE!

[pityroad]

— Thanksgiving 2006, Ocean Vuong, from 'Night Sky with Exit Wounds'

[text ID: Brooklyn's too cold tonight

& all my friends are three years away.

My mother said I could be anything

I wanted — but I chose to live.]

[hangsawoman]

i hope that when i die there will be an apartment with everyone i’ve ever loved in it and we are together always

[choysum]

neil hilborn

[jtownraindancer]

“Set wide the window.

Let me drink the day.”

-Edith Wharton

[jtownraindancer]

and i'm carrying this profound loneliness that sits heavy in my chest

sometimes i can't help wondering who would miss me if i was dead

[collectingforgottenpoetry]

"Nearing the end," I told my fainting soul, "Be brave; we soon shall reach the journey's goal."

Excerpt from "Ignis Fatuus," by Anne Reeve Aldrich. As featured in The Rose of Flame and Other Poems of Love, 1889 edition.

[collectingforgottenpoetry]

“Come with me… those that tire at all of the world we know, for we have new worlds here.”

— “Preface,” by Lord Dunsany. As featured in The Book of Wonder, 1912 edition.

[taxidermied-hearts]

@crenna

[crenna]

this sounds like something i’d like to read tbh

[collectingforgottenpoetry]

hello! if you would like to read this book, a copy can be found here:

The Book of Wonder, by Lord Dunsany, [1912], full text etext at sacred-texts.com

i hope you enjoy the journey

[thebellekeys]

Artists: Gustave Doré (1832 - 1883)

[shiftythrifting]

friends of the library book sale, collectors corner. ithaca, ny. (it had nursery rhymes and short prose based on animals.)

[jtownraindancer]

Found a copy on Internet Archive!

Queerie Queers With Hands Wings And Claws : Palmer Cox : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Queerie Queers with Hands, Wings and Clawswith Illustrations byPalmer Coxcirca 1885Queerie Queers with Reminiscences and Illustrationsby Pal

And a Google Drive link to the full PDF, just in case~

[collectingforgottenpoetry]

You must fully understand the beauty of life, if you want to see the beauty of death; and life will be more beautiful from the reason of contrast with death. And death, again from the contrast with life, will be more tender in pathos, more subtle in rhythm.

Excerpt from Epilogue, by Yoné Noguchi. As featured in Japanese Hokkus, 1920 edition.

[jtownraindancer]

reorganising my bedroom and in love with this playlist I found:

i'm a wee lil' hobbit tidying up my home 🌿🌻🌷🌱

[jtownraindancer]

it's been years since you last haunted these walls

sometimes i wonder

how much of you still lingers here

how many particles of dust

were shaped by your molecules

am i still breathing you in

over and over and over again

[friend-crow]

I am slowly losing my mind over the shift towards video as the default media format.

I do not find this to be an efficient way to absorb information. I am bored and distracted by the time the largely unnecessary introduction is over. I can't use ctrl+f to find the specific information I'm looking for. If there are instructions to follow, I don't want to have to constantly pause and back up to the part I need.

At least give me a fucking transcript.

[letmefixthatforyou]

I can read faster than you can talk and these videos are wasting my time.

[jtownraindancer]

"...we make our journey alone, that few will ever know what we sought or understand what we have found."

Excerpt from "For truth was to me a breath, a wind, a shadow..." by Gerald D. McDonald, an introduction to Poems of Stephen Crane, 1964.