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The Odyssey by Homer & Peter Green
azw3 |eng | 2018-03-27 | Author:Homer & Peter Green

( Category: Children's Folk Tales & Myths October 19,2021 )
Night Sky With Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
azw3 |eng | 2016-01-01 | Author:Ocean Vuong [Vuong, Ocean]

5. bones. But don’t laugh / when these walls collapse / & only sparks / not sparrows / fly out. / When they come / to sift through these cinders—& ...
( Category: Poetry October 19,2021 )
Ness by Robert Macfarlane & Stanley Donwood
azw3 |eng | 2019-09-05 | Author:Robert Macfarlane & Stanley Donwood [Macfarlane, Robert]

In the Green Chapel III ‘Can you hear something?’ asks The Ornithologist of no one in particular. The Armourer says: Let the catechism commence. Who holds the Strike Enable Facility ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology October 19,2021 )
The Aeneid by Virgil & Robert Fagles
azw3 |eng | 1742-01-01 | Author:Virgil & Robert Fagles

With those words on his lips, he gave his wife the embraces both desired, then sinking limp on her breast he courted peaceful sleep that stole throughout his body. And ...
( Category: Poetry October 19,2021 )
A Selection of Poetry by Christopher Smart
azw3 |eng | 2011-11-30 | Author:Christopher Smart [Smart, Christopher]

For I am inquisitive in the Lord, and defend the philosophy of the scripture against vain deceit. For the nets come down from the eyes of the Lord to fish ...
( Category: Poetry October 19,2021 )
The Complete Zimiamvia by E.R. Eddison
azw3 |eng | 2014-12-04 | Author:E.R. Eddison [Eddison, E.R.]

‘I love delicacy, and for me love hath the sun’s splendour and beauty.’ Zenianthe said, ‘We know, sir, who taught you that.’ Still Lessingham, upon the stairs, stood and listened. ...
( Category: Poetry October 19,2021 )
Anna Akhmatova: Poems by Anna Akhmatova
azw3 |eng | 2016-02-23 | Author:Anna Akhmatova [Akhmatova, Anna]

Friendship is weak and useless here,​ and years of happiness, exalted and full of fire,​ because the soul is free and does not know​ the slow luxuries of sensual life. ...
( Category: Poetry October 19,2021 )
The Practice of Poetry: Writing Exercises From Poets Who Teach by Robin Behn & Chase Twichell
azw3 |eng | 1992-01-01 | Author:Robin Behn & Chase Twichell [Behn, Robin]

THE SHORT NARRATIVE POEM Roland Flint Write a poem, eleven to fifteen lines long, in which you tell a story. Specifics: First of all, your poem must tell the story ...
( Category: Poetry October 19,2021 )
The Most of It by Mary Ruefle
azw3, epub |eng | 2008-05-31 | Author:Mary Ruefle [Ruefle, Mary]

WHAT WOMAN If someone asked me to remember my first menses — for what woman can forget it? — I would remember the afternoon in the dressing room off of ...
( Category: Christian Living October 19,2021 )
New Poetries VI: An Anthology by Michael Schmidt & Helen Tookey
azw3 |eng | 2015-05-31 | Author:Michael Schmidt & Helen Tookey [Schmidt, Michael]

On Heidegger’s Being and Time I When I was fourteen, I wanted to play the violin. I did not have the discipline of my twin, her feet dragging before her ...
( Category: Poetry October 19,2021 )
Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth by Warsan Shire
azw3 |eng | 2011-12-29 | Author:Warsan Shire [Shire, Warsan]

The instructor tells us that the longest a human being has held their breath under water is 19 minutes and 21 seconds. At home in the bath, my hair swells ...
( Category: Community & Culture Biographies October 19,2021 )
This Present Moment: New Poems by Gary Snyder
azw3 |eng | 2015-04-13 | Author:Gary Snyder [Snyder, Gary]

III..09 Morning Songs, Goose Lake Orion, Pleiades, in the east, then white glow on the hills, try to count the stars inside the corral of Capella they fade as light ...
( Category: Christian Literature & Fiction October 19,2021 )
Leaves of Grass: First and "Death-Bed" Editions by Walt Whitman
azw3 |eng | 1892-01-01 | Author:Walt Whitman

( Category: Poetry October 19,2021 )
Nietzsche by Stefan Zweig
azw3 |eng | 2020-09-15 | Author:Stefan Zweig [Zweig, Stefan]

VI Transfiguration Towards the Self The snake which cannot shed its skin, perishes. Likewise those spirits which are unable to change their concepts are no longer spirits. Men of order, ...
( Category: Historical Biographies October 19,2021 )
The Colossus: and Other Poems by Sylvia Plath
azw3 |eng | 1994-01-02 | Author:Sylvia Plath [Plath, Sylvia]

Chair and bureau are the hieroglyphs Of some godly utterance wakened heads ignore: So these posed sheets, before they thin to nothing, Speak in sign language of a lost otherworld, ...
( Category: Poetry October 19,2021 )

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