Poetry
epub |eng | 2011-09-06 | Author:Philip Levine [Levine, Philip]

LOST AND FOUND A light wind beyond the window, and the trees swimming in the golden morning air. Last night for hours I thought of a boy lost in a ...
( Category: United States August 19,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-14 | Author:Rabindranath Tagore [Tagore, Rabindranath]

The Babus of Nayanjore Once upon a time the Babus of Nayanjore were famous landholders. They were noted for their princely extravagance. They would tear off the rough border of ...
( Category: Indian August 19,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-25 | Author:May Sarton [Sarton, May]

For Rosalind On Her Seventy-fifth Birthday Tonight we come to praise Her splendor, not her years, Pure form and what it burns— Who teaches this or learns?— Intrinsic, beyond tears, ...
( Category: Poetry August 19,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-18 | Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Streams approach To accompany him. Now he reaches The plain, silvery-shining, And the plain shines with him, And the rivers of the plain And the mountain streams Joyfully cry, “Brother! ...
( Category: Poetry August 19,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-03-19 | Author:Amit Majmudar

Seers have sung it many ways In many different hymns And lines from Brahmin sutras Unquestionably reasoned out. {5} The major elements, the sense Of self, the intellect, the Unmanifest, ...
( Category: Poetry August 19,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-17 | Author:A. R. Ammons

you dragass around: you know you’re on empty: the light has gone out on your vowels, blue-lit with hallucination: the slick has dried on your rhythms: the pulp of your ...
( Category: Poetry August 19,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-18 | Author:Ormsby, Frank [Frank Ormsby]

He can hardly believe his luck. An hour ago he dropped his scythe discreetly in the long grass of a Fermanagh farm, now he is half a length from that ...
( Category: Poetry August 19,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-17 | Author:Feinstein, Elaine, Tsvetaeva, Marina [Marina Tsvetaeva]

Waiting for happiness? It’s more like waiting for death. The soldiers will salute and three chunks of lead will slam into your chest. Your eyes will then flash red. No ...
( Category: Poetry August 18,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-16 | Author:Tomas Tranströmer

On the blue benches, a sparse congregation. And the pillars rise like bizarre trees: no roots (only the communal floor) and no crown (only the communal roof). I’m reliving a ...
( Category: Poetry August 18,2018 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Burton Raffel

MESSAGE TO THE LIVING I’m dead, but waiting for you, and you’ll wait for someone: The darkness waits for everyone, it makes no distinctions. MIRACLE Here I lie, beneath this ...
( Category: Poetry August 18,2018 )
epub |eng | 1969-04-08 | Author:Jim Morrison [Morrison, Jim]

* * * Jackal, we sniff after the survivors of caravans. We reap bloody crops on war fields. No meat of any corpse deprives our lean bellies. Hunger drives us ...
( Category: Poetry August 18,2018 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Sherman Alexie, David Lehman [Sherman Alexie, David Lehman]

from The Iowa Review WENDY VIDELOCK * * * How You Might Approach a Foal: like a lagoon, like a canoe, like you are part earth and part moon, like ...
( Category: Poetry August 16,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Fernando Pessoa

I WANT MY VERSES TO BE LIKE JEWELS I want my verses to be like jewels, Able to endure into the far future Untarnished by the death That lurks in ...
( Category: Poetry August 16,2018 )
epub |eng | 2001-03-31 | Author:Erin Moure

The Humber is too small for ships Yet on its waters they still ply For those who see the “not there” in all things: The memory of canoes. The Humber ...
( Category: Poetry August 16,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-08-15 | Author:Fernando Pessoa

It was in the old peaceful house by the river . . . (My bedroom windows, like the dining room windows, Looked out over some low-lying houses and, just beyond ...
( Category: Poetry August 16,2018 )