Did you know that Karl Marx was a poet? Check out his poem. He was pretty good!!
Yearning. A Romance
"Why sighs your breast, why glows your gaze,
Why are your veins all burning,
As if Night weighs, as if Fate flays
Down into storm your yearning?"
"Show me the eyes, like ringing bells,
That glow in rainbows high,
Where brightness streams, where music swells,
Where stars go swimming by.
"I dreamed this dream, so troublesome,
Past all elucidating.
My head is void, my heart is numb,
My grave shall soon be waiting."
"What dream you here, what dream you there,
What lures to distant lands?
Here booms the Tide, here Hope rides fair,
Here's fire in True Love's bonds."
"Here naught rides fair, here is no fire,
But see what glimmers yonder,
I'm blinded, burning with desire,
And I would fain sink under."
He stares aloft, his eyes shine bright,
He shakes in every limb.
His sinews swell, his heart's alight,
His soul departs from him.
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1837-pre/verse/index.htm
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3 comments:
what a find
thank you
i'll read that one again
wow - interesting
HAHAHA...the true socialist, Marx you dog...figuring into society and then the women in it, very interesting poem. I could honestly say that i would have never figured this of him but romance and "love" are big themes in humanity. I feel that this poem is very sexual infused, i would assume on one of Marx hot and heavy moment with the ladies.
I read the poem...But I couldn't quite grasp his concept...Maybe I'll read it again just for the heck of it.
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