Words of One Beat

Works we've turned to words of one beat. The list goes from old to new. Those not marked were done by me, L.N. Ham.

• The Good Book:
  • The Start (Part 1)
  • Wise Words (Parts 1-4)
• Jeff C.: "The Start of It All" from Saint Tom's Town Tales
• Sir Tom Watt:
  • "They flee from me that one time did me seek"
  • "Who list to hunt, I know where is a hind"
  • "My lute wake up! and play the last"
  • "Oh dear, good Miss, for that I stole a kiss"
  • "And will you leave me thus?"
  • "Good Miss, I'll not use floods of words"
• George G.: "And if I did, what then?"
• Mike Dray Town: "Since there's no help, come, let us kiss and part"
• Kit R. Lowe: The Bold Hot Sheep Guard to His Love (by sub_div)
• Will the Bard:
  • "Who would take well my verse in time to come"
  • "Shall I speak of thee like a day in June?" (by Ra Sha Ka)
  • "Shall I say how thou'rt like a mid-year's day?"
  • "When luck is sour and men frown as they pass" (by Mike Ford)
  • "When, seen as a flop by fate and all men's eyes"
  • "How with fine high born words now can I sing"
  • "Not bright stone, nor the tombs they paint with gold"
  • "That time of year you now can see in me"
  • "So long: too dear for me to keep are you"
  • "Let me not when true minds are to be wed" (by cand)
  • "Let me not let true minds not be wed"
  • "The act that spends self in a waste of shame"
  • "My true love's eyes are not much like the sun" (by Kate D.)
  • "My love's eyes are not one part like the sun" (by v_volt)
  • "My girl's eyes are not at all like the sun"
  • "When my love swears that she is made of truth"
  • "Oh girl of mine, where do you roam?"
• John Donne:
  • "Go, catch while it falls down a star"
  • Made Saints
  • To His Girl, to Come to Bed
  • The Sun Comes Up
  • The Good Morn
  • Love's God
  • A Good-Bye: of Tears
  • A Good-Bye: Don't Cry
  • "At the round Earth's made-up sharp bits" (by P.N.H.)
  • The Saint's Bones (by S. Daws)
• Dame Wroth: "My Muse, now lay with joy thy self to rest"
• Tom Care.: A Song
• John Milt: "When I think how so soon my light is spent" (by cand)
• Drew Marv.: To His Coy Miss
• John Bun.: How Chris Got to Christ (by Luce Aik.)
• Dan de Foe: Rob's Son on His Own Isle (by Luce Aik.)
• Will Who Cowps: The Drowned Man (by cand)
• John Wyss: The Swiss Clan of Rob's Son (by Luce Aik.)
• Hank L.: A Tale of How St. Nick Came to Call (by Kip W.)
• Will Blake:
  • Big Cat (by Tim R.)
  • The Striped Cat
  • A Tree That Kills
  • Love Not Told (by V. Volt)
  • "And did those feet in long past time"
• Bob Burns: Auld Lang Syne (by Kip W.)
• Will Worth a Word: The World
• Sam Col's Ridge: The Great Khan
• Lord B.: The Fall of the Men of Zad (by S. Daws)
• P. Bysshe Shells: Oz (by Carr S.)
• John Keats:
  • Ode to a Night Bird
  • Ode on a Greek Urn
  • Ode on Sad Thoughts
  • On a First Glance at a New Voice for the Blind Greek (by Rich Hort)
  • On a First Read ... (by Jo Walt)
  • On My First Read of That Guy's Blind Bard
  • "When I have fears that I may cease to be" (by T.N.H.)
• Liz Makes-Brown: "When our two souls stand up full straight and strong"
• Hank Long Guy: The Day It Rained
• Ed Poe: Ann Lee
• Matt Arn: Kent Beach
• Lew Song: The Jabbed Wock
• Tom Who's Hard: The Thrush at Dusk (by cand)
• Fred E. by the Wind: Dan Me Boy (by Kip W.)
• Dad Small Hops:
  • The Kite
  • Pied Nice Things
  • God's Grand State
  • Spring & Fall
  • "I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day"
• Em Once-Dead: The New Large One by the Bay
• A.E. House Man:
  • "From far, from eve and dawn"
  • "White in the moon the long road lies"
  • "And through my heart on air that kills"
  • The Part That Can't Die
  • "Think no more, lad; laugh with mirth"
  • "My heart with rue is laid"
  • The Isle 'Tween the Lands
  • "Now rinds of flames burn out to black"
  • "I hoed and trenched, dug weeds"
  • "Oh stay at home, my lad"
  • "The bright nut casts his torch flames"
• E.L. Thayes: The Big Man at the Bat (by Kip W.)
• Will Yeats:
  • The Fool Told to Cheer Up
  • All Things Can Tempt Me
  • Her and the Swan
  • When You Are Old
  • A Song for Drink
  • Lord's Day, That Year
  • The Feast of Christ's Rise, Year One Nine One Six (by Rich Hort)
  • To be Carved on a Stone at Bal Spire
  • To Steal a Child (by Kip W.)
• Walt de la Mare:
  • The Ones Who Heard (by Kip W.)
  • Some One (by Kip W.)
• Red-Faced Small Kip:
  • The Sea and the Hills
  • On A Dead Pol's Grave (by Drew Craig)
• A.A. Milne: At Buck House (by Paul A.)
• John Field of Mace: To Burn for the Sea
• Vach Linds: Rain (by Rob Z.)
• Bob Frost:
  • Fire and Ice (by Xo Fur)
  • To Stop By Woods on Eve With Snow (by H.J. Lipt.)
• Wall Steves:
  • Thoughts of True, Straight, Things at Key West (by Rich Hort)
  • Of the New Verse (by Rich Hort)
  • Lord's Day Morn
• E. Pound: The Tree (by Rob Z.)
• W.H.A.:
  • Night Song (by El Frem)
  • To Keep Will Yeats In Mind
• Dyle Thoms: "Do not go meek out in that good night"
• John Crow Ran Some: Bells for John White Side's Girl Child (by Rich Hort)
• Liz More-Than-A-Priest: One Art (by Ol Will's Son)
• Phil Lark: This Be the Verse (by cand)
• Don Just: Poem to Be Read at 3 a.m. (by V. Volt)
• A. Hecht: Kent Bitch
• Mike Ford: On Worms (by Dave Who Turns)
• Not Known:
  • Daire Town Air (by Kip W.)
  • Hushed is This Night (by Kip W.)

And here are some works in words of one beat from the first:

• Chid Tich Brook: Death Verse
• Esth Bake Well: The Book of One Beats
• Jean S. Rem.: Lives of Head Men Told in Words of One Beat
• Tom Who Mills: Eve
• P. Kate Marm: "When I was young (but three and ten)"
• L.N. Ham.: Childe's Play

If you have a work, your own or one you've made good, that you'd like me to post here, send it to me.