epub |eng | 2013-08-14 | Author:Gerard Manley Hopkins [Hopkins, Gerard Manley]

When drop-of-blood-and-foam-dapple Bloom lights the orchard-apple And thicket and thorp are merry With silver-surfèd cherry And azuring-over greybell makes Wood banks and brakes wash wet like lakes And magic cuckoocall ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Richard Holmes [Holmes, Richard]

…My body bending forward, yea, o’erbalanced Almost beyond recoil, on the dim brink Of a huge chasm I stept. The shadowy moonshine Filling the void so counterfeited substance, That my ...

azw |eng | 2002-02-07 | Author:

Notes 1. See e.g. Moltke, 180 ff. and on the Rök stone, Jansson, 32ff. 2. Konstantin Reichardt dates Hymiskviða to the third decade of the thirteenth century (152 ff.). F. ...

azw3 |eng | 2017-03-26 | Author:Birkett, Thomas [Birkett, Thomas]

Conclusion As Halsall points out, ‘much of the effect of any Old English poem containing runes depends upon the distinctive appearance of the rune symbols in contrast to the ordinary ...

azw3 |eng | 2015-11-22 | Author:

[eigum ekkjur allkaldar tvær, en þær konur þurfu blossa.] (296) These are the universal plaints of old age, and contribute nothing to the individualization of Egil, but rather belong to ...

epub |eng | | Author:Helen Vendler

Ammons plays on the etymology: “succinct” poetry is “cinctured”: “discinct” poetry is unbelted, unbuttoned, the “bosh and flapdoodle” of the human lexicon. Ammons unveils—in a sad and tender recollection of ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-07-21 | Author:Pablo Neruda

He comes out against hate I’ve come within range of hate. Terrifying, its tremors, its dizzying obsessions. Hate’s like a swordfish invisible in the water, knifing suddenly into sight with ...

epub |eng | 2015-10-10 | Author:Helen Vendler [Vendler, Helen]

Ammons plays on the etymology: “succinct” poetry is “cinctured”: “discinct” poetry is unbelted, unbuttoned, the “bosh and flapdoodle” of the human lexicon. Ammons unveils—in a sad and tender recollection of ...

epub |eng | 2014-05-17 | Author:John Berger

6. Waterfront all night Hudson coughs in bed I try to sleep my country is a hide nailed to wood the wind of my soul rushes out of horizons I ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2013-04-10 | Author:Alexander McCall Smith

9 A Vision of Agape It was a summer evening, in June, and I was on my way to a speaking engagement in Perthshire, a part of Scotland that I ...

epub |eng | 2011-06-21 | Author:Tina D. Eliopulos

Unfortunately statistics show that about half of the marriages in the United States end in divorce. Like marriage and childbirth, divorce can create a great deal of change in your ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2015-04-29 | Author:Seamus Heaney

Dylan the Durable?: On Dylan Thomas Dylan Thomas is by now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry. Mention of his name is enough ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2015-04-16 | Author:William Butler Yeats

Chorus: Then raise the scarlet standard high! Within its shade we’ll live or die. Tho’ cowards flinch and traitors sneer, We’ll keep the red flag flying here. Harry Edward Piggott ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Derek Walcott

III At the Queen’s Park Hotel, with its white, high-ceilinged rooms, I reenter my first local mirror. A skidding roach in the porcelain basin slides from its path to Parnassus. ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2004-06-23 | Author:Robert Browning

Apparent Failure ‘We shall soon lose a celebrated building.’ Paris Newspaper I No, for I’ll save it! Seven years since, I passed through Paris, stopped a day To see the ...