Poetry
azw3 |eng | 2005-01-01 | Author:Álvaro Enrigue

THERAPY: THERAPY Meanness and selfishness are the only values that count in a society that prides itself on being composed of immigrants. That’s why, sooner or later, all of us ...
( Category: Poetry October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2018-11-03 | Author:Bertolt Brecht [Brecht, Bertolt]

On the death of a fighter for peace To the memory of Carl von Ossietzky He who did not surrender Has been beaten to death He who has been beaten ...
( Category: Dramas & Plays October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-07-12 | Author:Nichita Stănescu [Stănescu, Nichita]

I’m So Tired I Can’t Go On, He Said I’m so tired I can’t go on, he said, standing like a veiled wave . . . eye, O iris, iris-eyed ...
( Category: Poetry October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1938-01-01 | Author:Robinson Jeffers [Jeffers, Robinson]

XIII It is certain that too violent Self-control is unlucky, it attracts hard events As height does lightning; so Thurso rode up the canyon with a little death in himself, ...
( Category: Poetry October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-10-13 | Author:Mary Oliver [Oliver, Mary]

WATERING THE STONES Every summer I gather a few stones from the beach and keep them in a glass bowl. Now and again I cover them with water, and they ...
( Category: Poetry October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2000-01-01 | Author:Zbigniew Herbert [Herbert, Zbigniew]

CALIGULA Reading old chronicles, epics, and biographies, Mr Cogito sometimes feels persuaded of the physical presence of long deceased persons. CALIGULA SAYS: Among all the citizens of Rome I loved ...
( Category: Poetry October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1945-01-01 | Author:Anna Kavan

THE GANNETS IT was springtime, a windy day. I had walked a long way on the cliffs by a path that I did not know. Gannets were diving like snow ...
( Category: Genre Literature & Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Charles Bukowski [Bukowski, Charles]

I figured 500-plus air might make this community college outside Detroit worth my soul so I got on American and worked the stewardesses for extra drinks. I was to land ...
( Category: Classic Literature & Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1984-06-30 | Author:T.E.D. Klein [Klein, T.E.D.]

July Sixth Had she meant the letter as bait? In retrospect Carol was forced to admit that perhaps there had been something slightly calculating about it. But then, she'd merely ...
( Category: Poetry October 18,2021 )
azw3 |deu | 2013-01-01 | Author:Gottfried Benn & David Paisey [Benn, Gottfried]

Through motionless blue mist, driven inland from the nearby sea, Rönne strode out next morning on the way to his hospital. This lay beyond the town and all paved streets. ...
( Category: Poetry October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1930-01-01 | Author:T.S. Eliot [Eliot, T.S.]

I. THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD Line 20. Cf. Ezekiel II, i. 23. Cf. Ecclesiastes XII, v. 31. V. Tristan und Isolde, I, verses 5–8. 42. Id. III, verse 24. ...
( Category: Poetry October 18,2021 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2000-05-24 | Author:W.B. Yeats [Yeats, W.B.]

Supernatural Songs I Ribh at the Tomb of Baile and Aillinn Because you have found me in the pitch-dark night With open book you ask me what I do. Mark ...
( Category: Poetry October 18,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-10-05 | Author:Amitava Kumar [Kumar, Amitava]

* * * — VAANI WAS BORN in Ranchi, her father a pilot in the air force and her mother an amateur musician fond of playing the sitar at cultural ...
( Category: Genre Literature & Fiction October 18,2021 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-02 | Author:Ruby Grandin [Grandin, Ruby]

“One Last Chance” Abby walked home alone. She put on her favorite old sweatshirt and tried to console herself with a pint of ice cream (Ben and Jerry's Chocolate Fudge ...
( Category: Children's Growing Up & Facts of Life Books October 15,2021 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-29 | Author:Ruzbeh N Bharucha [N. Bharucha, Ruzbeh]

Being in remembrance and gratitude towards one’s ancestors is very important. ‘So tell me, does mankind behave like the scum of creation only because of lower energies, those negative energies ...
( Category: Poetry October 10,2021 )