epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-03-17 | Author:Wislawa Szymborska

True, it’s hard to catch the world being different. The apple tree slips back under the window before you can blink. Incandescent sparrows always grow dim just in time. Little ...

mobi |de | 2009-10-08 | Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Vor dem Palaste des Menelas zu Sparta HELENA: Bewundert viel und viel gescholten, Helena, Vom Strande komm' ich, wo wir erst gelandet sind, Noch immer trunken von des Gewoges regsamem ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-06-13 | Author:Robert Clark

3 IN THE MORNING, EDWARD AND VIRGINIA AGREED that Edward ought to go to work; that there was nothing he could usefully do at home (Virginia would go through Emily’s ...

epub |eng | | Author:Wislawa Szymborska

If I could just rehearse one Wednesday in advance, or repeat a single Thursday that has passed! But here comes Friday with a script I haven’t seen. Is it fair, ...

epub |eng | 2012-10-10 | Author:Lawrence Durrell [Lawrence Durrell]

V We suffer according to the terms we make With time in cities: allowing to be rooted from us Like useless teeth the few great healers Who understand the penalties ...

epub |eng | | Author:Clive James [James, Clive]

Threatening always to give birth to Edith Sitwell like Venus in a seashell, even in its heyday such billowing foam-froth counted as high spirits at best, and in the long ...

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 ...

mobi |eng | 2002-12-01 | Author:Fernando Pessoa; Richard Zenith

280 O night in which the stars feign light, O night that alone is the size of the Universe, make me, body and soul, part of your body, so that ...

epub |eng | 2012-05-27 | Author:Samuel Beckett [Samuel Beckett]

at the faint sound so brief it is gone and the whole globe not yet bare the eye opens wide wide till in the end nothing more shutters it again ...

azw3 |eng | 2012-07-17 | Author:Dante

87. The metaphorical vineyard (fairly obviously the Church) turns gray with rot if its keeper (obviously the pope) does not take good care of it. This reference to Boniface VIII ...

azw3 |eng | 2012-07-24 | Author:Dante

67–69. Nino comments upon the unknown and unknowable purpose of God in bringing this living human soul into the immortal realm. He is content to accept the quia, the sheer ...

epub |eng | | Author:Wislawa Szymborska

litter scattered by the breeze from under statues, scraps from that great Silence up on high . . . Mała dziewczynka ściąga obrus Od ponad roku jest się na tym ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1991-08-28 | Author:Ariosto, Ludovico [Ariosto, Ludovico]

As though to match our fourfold loss – to gain, Who with his nephews are compared, with reason; Knights such as these are few at any season. 58 ‘I do ...

epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2008-12-08 | Author:Alexander Pushkin

10 Instructed by her nurse, Tatiana Arranged a séance all night through; And in the bathhouse of the manor Ordered a table laid for two. But sudden fear assailed Tatiana… ...

epub |eng | | Author:Tomaz Salamun

Baruzza Vendramin! Sharpen it! I tell you to sharpen it but not so ardently that you break it again. You cleaned your shoes with your shawl, what is this, Vendramin, ...