Poetry
epub |eng | 2012-05-21 | Author:C. P. Cavafy [Cavafy, C. P.]

We have Cavafy’s transcription of this passage into Modern Greek, and it is worth quoting because, in the subtle alterations it makes to the original, it sheds light on the ...
( Category: Love Poems December 13,2023 )
epub |eng | 2005-12-15 | Author:Sommer, Piotr

Easter Let’s go places we’ve been before, visit old friends, learn who this or that one is. They have hands of gold and may live a little differently today. One ...
( Category: European December 13,2023 )
mobi |eng | 2010-02-02 | Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

He shall not seek to weave, In weak, unhappy times, Efficacious rhymes; – Wait his returning strength. Bird, that from the nadir's floor To the zenith's top can soar, The ...
( Category: United States December 13,2023 )
pdf | | 2012-12-12 | Author:G4

( Category: Poetry December 13,2023 )
epub |eng | 2022-12-15 | Author:Monica Youn [Youn, Monica]

In the previous two sections, I use the pronoun “they” rather than the pronoun “we.” This reflects my discomfort with including myself in the “they.” My family did not come ...
( Category: Asian American December 11,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jenni Fagan [Fagan, Jenni]

I TOLD HER I told her I was going to sleep with every kind of woman in the world, in every country and she said – that would take a ...
( Category: British & Irish December 11,2023 )
epub |eng | 2023-11-05 | Author:Matthew Hollis [Hollis, Matthew]

Harwonder Perhaps it was the way we caddied the sound, or delighted at its invention. But more likely it was the sharing of a word that no one else knew ...
( Category: British December 10,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Stanisław Wyspiański [Wyspiański, Stanisław]

ACT IV (Act II of Bolesław the Bold) SCENE 1. KING. Bring forth my chest. The one that rests Beneath the royal bed. Therein, my crown Of gold torques wound, ...
( Category: European December 10,2023 )
epub | | | Author:David Harsent

At the ceremony of the ploughing of the fields the priest would stoop to trace a cut left by the first ploughshare at the foot of the Acropolis and chant: ...
( Category: Death, Grief & Loss December 10,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jane McMorland Hunter

Amy Lowell (1874–1925) 21 JULY On a Drop of Dew LINES 1–18 See how the Orient Dew, Shed from the Bosom of the Morn Into the blowing Roses, Yet careless ...
( Category: Nature December 10,2023 )
pdf | | 2020-11-30 | Author:Ravinthiran, Vidyan, author

( Category: Asian December 10,2023 )
epub |eng | 1992-02-01 | Author:Jean Garrigue [Garrigue, Jean]

Epitaph for My Cat And now my pampered beast Who hated to be wet, The rain falls all night And you are under it. Who liked to be warm, Are ...
( Category: Places December 5,2023 )
pdf | | | Author:B.K. Brown

( Category: Ancient & Classical December 4,2023 )
epub |eng | 2023-11-21 | Author:J. Robert Lennon & Carmen Maria Machado [Lennon, J. Robert & Machado, Carmen Maria]

Lord of the Races Race is not just part of world building in fantasy. It is the world. J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion ...
( Category: Anthologies November 29,2023 )