Poesiverkstad

{
  "generated_at": "2026-04-07T10:00:57.370140Z",
  "inspiration": {
    "descriptive_adjectives": [
      "true",
      "great",
      "divine",
      "romantic",
      "much",
      "brotherly",
      "human",
      "self",
      "pure",
      "passionate"
    ],
    "related_poems": [
      {
        "author": "Alan Seeger",
        "line_count": "24",
        "lines": [
          "I have a rendezvous with Death",
          "At some disputed barricade,",
          "When Spring comes back with rustling shade",
          "And apple-blossoms fill the air—",
          "I have a rendezvous with Death",
          "When Spring brings back blue days and fair.",
          "",
          "It may be he shall take my hand",
          "And lead me into his dark land",
          "And close my eyes and quench my breath—",
          "It may be I shall pass him still.",
          "I have a rendezvous with Death",
          "On some scarred slope of battered hill",
          "When Spring comes round again this year",
          "And the first meadow-flowers appear.",
          "",
          "God knows 'twere better to be deep",
          "Pillowed in silk and scented down,",
          "Where Love throbs out in blissful sleep,",
          "Pulse nigh to pulse, and breath to breath,",
          "Where hushed awakenings are dear...",
          "But I've a rendezvous with Death",
          "At midnight in some flaming town,",
          "When Spring trips north again this year,",
          "And I to my pledged word am true,",
          "I shall not fail that rendezvous."
        ],
        "title": "I Have A Rendezvous With Death"
      },
      {
        "author": "Alan Seeger",
        "line_count": "104",
        "lines": [
          "I",
          "",
          "Ay, it is fitting on this holiday,",
          "Commemorative of our soldier dead,",
          "When -- with sweet flowers of our New England May",
          "Hiding the lichened stones by fifty years made gray --",
          "Their graves in every town are garlanded,",
          "That pious tribute should be given too",
          "To our intrepid few",
          "Obscurely fallen here beyond the seas.",
          "Those to preserve their country's greatness died;",
          "But by the death of these",
          "Something that we can look upon with pride",
          "Has been achieved, nor wholly unreplied",
          "Can sneerers triumph in the charge they make",
          "That from a war where Freedom was at stake",
          "America withheld and, daunted, stood aside.",
          "",
          "II",
          "",
          "Be they remembered here with each reviving spring,",
          "Not only that in May, when life is loveliest,",
          "Around Neuville-Saint-Vaast and the disputed crest",
          "Of Vimy, they, superb, unfaltering,",
          "In that fine onslaught that no fire could halt,",
          "Parted impetuous to their first assault;",
          "But that they brought fresh hearts and springlike too",
          "To that high mission, and 'tis meet to strew",
          "With twigs of lilac and spring's earliest rose",
          "The cenotaph of those",
          "Who in the cause that history most endears",
          "Fell in the sunny morn and flower of their young years.",
          "",
          "III",
          "",
          "et sought they neither recompense nor praise,",
          "Nor to be mentioned in another breath",
          "Than their blue coated comrades whose great days",
          "It was their pride to share -- ay, share even to the death!",
          "Nay, rather, France, to you they rendered thanks",
          "(Seeing they came for honor, not for gain),",
          "Who, opening to them your glorious ranks,",
          "Gave them that grand occasion to excel,",
          "That chance to live the life most free from stain",
          "And that rare privilege of dying well.",
          "",
          "IV",
          "",
          "O friends! I know not since that war began",
          "From which no people nobly stands aloof",
          "If in all moments we have given proof",
          "Of virtues that were thought American.",
          "I know not if in all things done and said",
          "All has been well and good,",
          "Or if each one of us can hold his head",
          "As proudly as he should,",
          "Or, from the pattern of those mighty dead",
          "Whose shades our country venerates to-day,",
          "",
          "If we've not somewhat fallen and somewhat gone astray.",
          "But you to whom our land's good name is dear,",
          "If there be any here",
          "Who wonder if her manhood be decreased,",
          "Relaxed its sinews and its blood less red",
          "Than that at Shiloh and Antietam shed,",
          "Be proud of these, have joy in this at least,",
          "And cry: \"Now heaven be praised",
          "That in that hour that most imperilled her,",
          "Menaced her liberty who foremost raised",
          "Europe's bright flag of freedom, some there were",
          "Who, not unmindful of the antique debt,",
          "Came back the generous path of Lafayette;",
          "And when of a most formidable foe",
          "She checked each onset, arduous to stem --",
          "Foiled and frustrated them --",
          "On those red fields where blow with furious blow",
          "Was countered, whether the gigantic fray",
          "Rolled by the Meuse or at the Bois Sabot,",
          "Accents of ours were in the fierce melee;",
          "And on those furthest rims of hallowed ground",
          "Where the forlorn, the gallant charge expires,",
          "When the slain bugler has long ceased to sound,",
          "And on the tangled wires",
          "The last wild rally staggers, crumbles, stops,",
          "Withered beneath the shrapnel's iron showers: --",
          "Now heaven be thanked, we gave a few brave drops;",
          "Now heaven be thanked, a few brave drops were ours.\"",
          "",
          "V",
          "",
          "There, holding still, in frozen steadfastness,",
          "Their bayonets toward the beckoning frontiers,",
          "They lie -- our comrades -- lie among their peers,",
          "Clad in the glory of fallen warriors,",
          "Grim clusters under thorny trellises,",
          "Dry, furthest foam upon disastrous shores,",
          "Leaves that made last year beautiful, still strewn",
          "Even as they fell, unchanged, beneath the changing moon;",
          "And earth in her divine indifference",
          "Rolls on, and many paltry things and mean",
          "Prate to be heard and caper to be seen.",
          "But they are silent, calm; their eloquence",
          "Is that incomparable attitude;",
          "No human presences their witness are,",
          "But summer clouds and sunset crimson-hued,",
          "And showers and night winds and the northern star.",
          "Nay, even our salutations seem profane,",
          "Opposed to their Elysian quietude;",
          "Our salutations calling from afar,",
          "From our ignobler plane",
          "And undistinction of our lesser parts:",
          "Hail, brothers, and farewell; you are twice blest, brave hearts.",
          "Double your glory is who perished thus,",
          "For you have died for France and vindicated us."
        ],
        "title": "Ode in Memory of the American Volunteers Fallen for France"
      },
      {
        "author": "Alan Seeger",
        "line_count": "175",
        "lines": [
          "There is a power whose inspiration fills",
          "Nature's fair fabric, sun- and star-inwrought,",
          "Like airy dew ere any drop distils,",
          "Like perfume in the laden flower, like aught",
          "Unseen which interfused throughout the whole",
          "Becomes its quickening pulse and principle and soul.",
          "Now when, the drift of old desire renewing,",
          "Warm tides flow northward over valley and field,",
          "When half-forgotten sound and scent are wooing",
          "From their deep-chambered recesses long sealed",
          "Such memories as breathe once more",
          "Of childhood and the happy hues it wore,",
          "Now, with a fervor that has never been",
          "In years gone by, it stirs me to respond, --",
          "Not as a force whose fountains are within",
          "The faculties of the percipient mind,",
          "Subject with them to darkness and decay,",
          "But something absolute, something beyond,",
          "Oft met like tender orbs that seem to peer",
          "From pale horizons, luminous behind",
          "Some fringe of tinted cloud at close of day;",
          "And in this flood of the reviving year,",
          "When to the loiterer by sylvan streams,",
          "Deep in those cares that make Youth loveliest,",
          "Nature in every common aspect seems",
          "To comment on the burden in his breast --",
          "The joys he covets and the dreams he dreams --",
          "One then with all beneath the radiant skies",
          "That laughs with him or sighs,",
          "It courses through the lilac-scented air,",
          "A blessing on the fields, a wonder everywhere.",
          "",
          "",
          "Spirit of Beauty, whose sweet impulses,",
          "Flung like the rose of dawn across the sea,",
          "Alone can flush the exalted consciousness",
          "With shafts of sensible divinity --",
          "Light of the World, essential loveliness:",
          "Him whom the Muse hath made thy votary",
          "Not from her paths and gentle precepture",
          "Shall vulgar ends engage, nor break the spell",
          "That taught him first to feel thy secret charms",
          "And o'er the earth, obedient to their lure,",
          "Their sweet surprise and endless miracle,",
          "To follow ever with insatiate arms.",
          "On summer afternoons,",
          "When from the blue horizon to the shore,",
          "Casting faint silver pathways like the moon's",
          "Across the Ocean's glassy, mottled floor,",
          "Far clouds uprear their gleaming battlements",
          "Drawn to the crest of some bleak eminence,",
          "When autumn twilight fades on the sere hill",
          "And autumn winds are still;",
          "To watch the East for some emerging sign,",
          "Wintry Capella or the Pleiades",
          "Or that great huntsman with the golden gear;",
          "Ravished in hours like these",
          "Before thy universal shrine",
          "To feel the invoked presence hovering near,",
          "He stands enthusiastic. Star-lit hours",
          "Spent on the roads of wandering solitude",
          "Have set their sober impress on his brow,",
          "And he, with harmonies of wind and wood",
          "And torrent and the tread of mountain showers,",
          "Has mingled many a dedicative vow",
          "That holds him, till thy last delight be known,",
          "Bound in thy service and in thine alone.",
          "",
          "",
          "I, too, among the visionary throng",
          "Who choose to follow where thy pathway leads,",
          "Have sold my patrimony for a song,",
          "And donned the simple, lowly pilgrim's weeds.",
          "From that first image of beloved walls,",
          "Deep-bowered in umbrage of ancestral trees,",
          "Where earliest thy sweet enchantment falls,",
          "Tingeing a child's fantastic reveries",
          "With radiance so fair it seems to be",
          "Of heavens just lost the lingering evidence",
          "From that first dawn of roseate infancy,",
          "So long beneath thy tender influence",
          "My breast has thrilled. As oft for one brief second",
          "The veil through which those infinite offers beckoned",
          "Has seemed to tremble, letting through",
          "Some swift intolerable view",
          "Of vistas past the sense of mortal seeing,",
          "So oft, as one whose stricken eyes might see",
          "In ferny dells the rustic deity,",
          "I stood, like him, possessed, and all my being,",
          "Flooded an instant with unwonted light,",
          "Quivered with cosmic passion; whether then",
          "On woody pass or glistening mountain-height",
          "I walked in fellowship with winds and clouds,",
          "Whether in cities and the throngs of men,",
          "A curious saunterer through friendly crowds,",
          "Enamored of the glance in passing eyes,",
          "Unuttered salutations, mute replies, --",
          "In every character where light of thine",
          "Has shed on earthly things the hue of things divine",
          "I sought eternal Loveliness, and seeking,",
          "If ever transport crossed my brow bespeaking",
          "Such fire as a prophetic heart might feel",
          "Where simple worship blends in fervent zeal,",
          "It was the faith that only love of thee",
          "Needed in human hearts for Earth to see",
          "Surpassed the vision poets have held dear",
          "Of joy diffused in most communion here;",
          "That whomsoe'er thy visitations warmed,",
          "Lover of thee in all thy rays informed,",
          "Needed no difficulter discipline",
          "To seek his right to happiness within",
          "Than, sensible of Nature's loveliness,",
          "To yield him to the generous impulses",
          "By such a sentiment evoked. The thought,",
          "Bright Spirit, whose illuminings I sought,",
          "That thou unto thy worshipper might be",
          "An all-sufficient law, abode with me,",
          "Importing something more than unsubstantial dreams",
          "To vigils by lone shores and walks by murmuring streams.",
          "",
          "",
          "Youth's flowers like childhood's fade and are forgot.",
          "Fame twines a tardy crown of yellowing leaves.",
          "How swift were disillusion, were it not",
          "That thou art steadfast where all else deceives!",
          "Solace and Inspiration, Power divine",
          "That by some mystic sympathy of thine,",
          "When least it waits and most hath need of thee,",
          "Can startle the dull spirit suddenly",
          "With grandeur welled from unsuspected springs, --",
          "Long as the light of fulgent evenings,",
          "When from warm showers the pearly shades disband",
          "And sunset opens o'er the humid land,",
          "Shows thy veiled immanence in orient skies, --",
          "Long as pale mist and opalescent dyes",
          "Hung on far isle or vanishing mountain-crest,",
          "Fields of remote enchantment can suggest",
          "So sweet to wander in it matters nought,",
          "They hold no place but in impassioned thought,",
          "Long as one draught from a clear sky may be",
          "A scented luxury;",
          "Be thou my worship, thou my sole desire,",
          "Thy paths my pilgrimage, my sense a lyre",
          "Aeolian for thine every breath to stir;",
          "Oft when her full-blown periods recur,",
          "To see the birth of day's transparent moon",
          "Far from cramped walls may fading afternoon",
          "Find me expectant on some rising lawn;",
          "Often depressed in dewy grass at dawn,",
          "Me, from sweet slumber underneath green boughs,",
          "Ere the stars flee may forest matins rouse,",
          "Afoot when the great sun in amber floods",
          "Pours horizontal through the steaming woods",
          "And windless fumes from early chimneys start",
          "And many a cock-crow cheers the traveller's heart",
          "Eager for aught the coming day afford",
          "In hills untopped and valleys unexplored.",
          "Give me the white road into the world's ends,",
          "Lover of roadside hazard, roadside friends,",
          "Loiterer oft by upland farms to gaze",
          "On ample prospects, lost in glimmering haze",
          "At noon, or where down odorous dales twilit,",
          "Filled with low thundering of the mountain stream,",
          "Over the plain where blue seas border it",
          "The torrid coast-towns gleam.",
          "",
          "",
          "I have fared too far to turn back now; my breast",
          "Burns with the lust for splendors unrevealed,",
          "Stars of midsummer, clouds out of the west,",
          "Pallid horizons, winds that valley and field",
          "Laden with joy, be ye my refuge still!",
          "What though distress and poverty assail!",
          "Though other voices chide, yours never will.",
          "The grace of a blue sky can never fail.",
          "Powers that my childhood with a spell so sweet,",
          "My youth with visions of such glory nursed,",
          "Ye have beheld, nor ever seen my feet",
          "On any venture set, but 'twas the thirst",
          "For Beauty willed them, yea, whatever be",
          "The faults I wanted wings to rise above;",
          "I am cheered yet to think how steadfastly",
          "I have been loyal to the love of Love!"
        ],
        "title": "Juvenilia, An Ode to Natural Beauty"
      }
    ],
    "rhyming_words": [
      "shove",
      "reminiscent of",
      "get rid of",
      "above",
      "consist of",
      "dove",
      "glove",
      "sort of",
      "kind of",
      "get hold of"
    ],
    "similar_words": [
      "dearest",
      "beloved",
      "enjoy",
      "lovemaking",
      "dear",
      "passion",
      "loved one",
      "honey",
      "making love",
      "sexual love"
    ]
  },
  "success": true,
  "theme": "love",
  "word_palette": {
    "adjectives": [
      "true",
      "great",
      "divine",
      "romantic",
      "much"
    ],
    "core": "love",
    "rhymes": [
      "shove",
      "reminiscent of",
      "get rid of",
      "above",
      "consist of"
    ],
    "synonyms": [
      "dearest",
      "beloved",
      "enjoy",
      "lovemaking",
      "dear"
    ]
  }
}