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স্মৃতির শহরে পিছু ফেরা নিয়ে কিছু কবিতা । একুশের বই মেলায় আগামী প্রকাশনী, বাংলা বাজার ঢাকা থেকে প্রকাশিত কবি শফিকুল ইসলাম এর কাব্যগ্রন্থ শ্রাবণ দিনের কাব্য। এই গ্রন্থে প্রায় ৫০টির (পঞ্চাশ) মত কবিতা স্থান পেয়েছে। গ্রন্থের প্রচছদ পরিকল্পনায় শিবু কুমার শীল। কবিতাগুলো মনের গভীরতম অনুভূতিকে উদ্বেলিত করার মত গদ্য -রীতিতে রচিত ।...

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"The Legendary Graduate" is the most addictive book of poetry in the world, written by accomplished autistic poet and author, Joseph D. Smith! The book was written in honor of his own private graduation ceremony, held in his honor by the county Judge and the county Sheriff! The book features over 40 of his own original poems, each with their own story, and each are a rare look inside the mind of an autistic individual....

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The Legendary Graduation: You are probably wondering why my graduation was legendary. Well, I will explain; when I was little a nurse told my dad that I wouldn't ever make it through school, she said it would be a living nightmare. It was a living nightmare, but I proved that nurse wrong when I actually did graduate! I didn't want to graduate at the school, so my friend, the Hon. Philip Patton held a graduation ceremony for me, and he had a medal made for me, which the Sheriff Chris Eaton presented to me. I also wanted my little sister Wendy to come, who is autistic, and can't handle big crowds. I'm just glad she got to come! That is how my graduation was so legendary. On the back of my medal it reads: "To Joseph from those who believed you could", so thats where the dedication "From Joseph: To those who believed I could" came from. The middle part of the medal spins around, which I can do a spin-a- roo with! Thank you so much for reading this book! May this book bring you ever-lasting joy! ~Joseph D. Smith, The Legendary Graduate....

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Title: Pg. I Copyright: Pg. 1 Photo: Pg. 2 Dedications: Pg. 3 Poems: Pg's 4-43 The Legendary Graduation: Pg. 44

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A complete verse translation of Faust Parts I & II with stage instructions and line numbers.

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Part I: Preliminaries (Dedication, Prelude, Prologue) Scenes I-III (Night, City-Gate, Study) Scenes IV-VI (Study, Auerbach's Cellar, Witches' Kitchen) Scenes VII-XV (Street, Evening, Promenade, Neighbour's House, Street, Garden, Arbour, Forest, Gretchen's Room) Scenes XVI-XXV (Martha's Garden, Fountain, Tower, Night, Cathedral, Walpurgis Night, Oberon and Titania, Dreary Day, Night, Dungeon) Part II: Act I Scenes I-VII (Landscape, Castle, Hall, Pleasure-Garden, Gallery, Brightly-Lit Halls, Hall of the Knights) Act II Scenes I-IV (Chamber, Laboratory, Classical Walpurgis Night, Upper Peneus River) Act II Scenes V-VI (Aegean Coves, Telchines of Rhodes) Act III Scenes I-II (Menelaus' Palace, Castle Court) Act IV Scenes I-III (Mountains, Headland:Battle, Emperor's Tent) Act V Scenes I-VII (Country, Garden, Palace, Night, Midnight, Outer Court, Mountain:Forest:Rock:Desert)...

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Twenty-Nine More Poems including Beatrice, The Void.

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To A Woman of Malabar Bertha’s Eyes ‘Je n’ai pas oublié, voisine de la ville,’ ‘La servante au grand coeur dont vous étiez jalouse,’ Landscape The Sun Sorrows of the Moon Don Juan in Hell On Tasso in Prison (Eugène Delacroix’s painting) Femmes Damnées Beauty The Jewels Beatrice Exotic Perfume A Phantom II: The Perfume Afternoon Song The Death of Lovers To A Red-headed Beggar-girl The Death of the Poor Lover’s Wine The Solitary’s Wine The Pipe The Ransom Clouded Sky The Living Torch Spleen Far Away from Here The Void The Moon, Offended Index by First Line...

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Selected unexpurgated epigrams.

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De Spectaculis:1 The New Colosseum De Spectaculis:2 Rome restored De Spectaculis:6 On display BookI:1 He’s here Book I:32 I don’t love you… Book I:34 Lesbia Book I:77 Charinus, exhausted Book I:91 The critic Book I:94 Changed Book I:115 A certain girl Book II:25 Promises Book II:38 A fine view Book II:87 Amazing Book III:9 A silent critic Book III:26 Possession Book III:27 Dinner invitations Book III:53 Sorry Chloe Book III:79 Incomplete Book III: 90 Uncertainty Book IV: 76 Half measures Book V:34 Erotion the slave-girl Book V:47 It’s logical Book V:58 Carpe diem Book V:64 The Mausoleum of Augustus Book V:66 Ave, Pontilianus Book V:81 It’s a law Book V:83 Contrary Book VI:40 Tempus fugit Book VI:60 My books Book VI:90 Bigamy Book VII:3 No thanks Book VII:14 True loss Book VII:30 Hard to please Book VII:73 Tell me, Maximus Book VII:76 The reality Book VIII:13 False description Book IX:8 Double negative Book X:14 Stop complaining Book X:29 My gifts Book X:32 Marcus Antonius Primus Book X:33 The hidden rule Book X:47 The good life Book X:50 Too soon Book X:97 Expectations dashed Book XI:3 No...

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Twenty-four poems in translation.

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Absence Easy Talking of Power and Love The Beloved Max Ernst Series Obsession Nearer To Us Open Door The Immediate Life Lovely And Lifelike The Season of Loves As Far As My Eye Can See In My Body’s Senses Barely Disfigured In A New Night Fertile Eyes I Said It To You It’s The Sweet Law Of Men The Curve Of Your Eyes Liberty Ring Of Peace Ecstasy Our Life Uninterrupted Poetry Index of First Lines...

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From L'Olive augmentée, Les Regrets, and others.

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Translator’s Introduction D'un vanneur de blé aux vents To you, fleeting things, ‘La nuit froide et sombre’ The night cold and sombre ‘Quand ton col de couleur rose’ When your neck like a rose Sonnets from L’Olive augmentée ‘Je ne quiers pas la fameuse couronne,’ For that famous crown I feel no longing, ‘D'amour, de grace, et de haulte valeur’ With love, with grace and with noble value ‘Loyre fameux, qui ta petite source’ Famed Loire, who swell your little source ‘Me soit amour ou rude, ou favorable,’ Whether love is harsh to me or favourable, ‘Or’ que la nuit son char etoilé guide’ Now that Night her starry chariot plies, ‘Que n’es-tu las (mon desir) de tant suyvre’ Are you not weary (my desire) of following, ‘Déjà la nuit en son parc amassoit’ Already night has gathered in her train ‘Dieu qui reçois en ton giron humide’ River-god who receives in your humid flow, ‘Ny par les bois les Driades courantes,’ Not Dryads running lightly through the trees, ‘S'il a dict vray, seiche pour moy l'ombrage’ If he spoke true, then parch for me the shade ‘Esprit divin, que la troupe honnorée,’ Spirit divine, whom the h...

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Ovid's help for lovers trying to escape from love.

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Part I: Words with Cupid, and The Task Part II: Treat it Early: Fill Your Time with War or Law Part III: You Can Also Farm, Hunt, or Travel Part IV: But Forget Witchcraft! Part V: Contemplate her Defects Part VI: Now About Sex Part VII: Have More Than One Lover Part VIII: Be Cool With Her Part IX: Or Sate Yourself With Her Part X: Forget Her, and Don’t Be Alone Part XI: Now, Keep Away From Her Part XII: Don’t Weaken Part XIII: Get Rid of all Reminders Part XIV: Avoid the Arts Part XV: Love your Rival Part XVI: The Doctor’s Last Advice...

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It describes the lifestyle of the poet and his friends, as well as, most famously, his love for the woman he calls Lesbia.

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1. The Dedication: to Cornelius 2. Tears for Lesbia’s Sparrow 2b. Atalanta 3. The Death of Lesbia’s Sparrow 4. His Boat 5. Let’s Live and Love: to Lesbia 6. Flavius’s Girl: to Flavius 7. How Many Kisses: to Lesbia 8. Advice: to himself 9. Back from Spain: to Veranius 10. Home Truths for Varus’s girl: to Varus 11. Words against Lesbia: to Furius and Aurelius 12. Stop Stealing the Napkins! : to Asinius Marrucinus 13. Invitation: to Fabullus 14. What a Book! : to Calvus the Poet 15. A Warning: to Aurelius 16. A Rebuke: to Aurelius and Furius 17. The Town of Cologna Veneta 21. Greedy: To Aurelius. 22. People Who Live in Glass Houses: to Varus 23. Poverty: to Furius 24. Furius’s Poverty: to Iuventius 25. My Things Back Please: to Thallus 26. The Mortgage: to Furius 27. Falernian Wine 28. Patronage: to Veranus and Fabullus 29. Catamite 30. Faithlessness: to Alfenus 31. Sirmio 32. Siesta: to Ipsíthilla 33. A Suggestion: to Vibennius 34. Song: to Diana 35. Cybele: to Caecilius 36. Burnt-Offering: to Volusius’s Droppings 37. Free for All: to the Regulars and Egnatius 38. A Word Please: to Cornificius 39. ...

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An original essay on Poetic translation.

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1. A New and Present Life 2. The Sacred Marriage 3. The Retrieval of Meaning 4. The Ghost in the Machine 5. The Disease of Translation 6. Another Voice...

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Twenty-six sonnets by Luis de Góngora y Argote.

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‘When, at the rising of the sun, my nymph’ To A Rose To A Very Pale Lady Dressed in Green ‘With such distinction, such grace’ ‘What, out of ivory from the Ganges,’ A Lady’s Tears and Sighs ‘Sacred temple of pure honesty,’ ‘From the crystal of your divine hand’ Inscription for El Greco’s Tomb To A White Poplar Grove To The Court Ladies asking Favour for Andalusian Gallants ‘Lovely and illustrious Maria,’ ‘The sweet mouth that invites you to taste’ ‘The white lilies, children of the Sun,’ Of Human Ambition On the Deceptive Brevity of Life ‘While yet in competing with your hair,’ ‘No ship, wrecked on some harsh reef,’ ‘Oh, bright honour of the liquid element,’ To Cordoba To The Quadalquivir Of a Lady Pricked by a Ring To A Girl, Now Become a Beautiful Lady To Memory: Of Death and Hell To A Grove of White Poplars ‘Green rushes of the kindly Douro wove’ Index of First Lines...

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A book of poems written by Florentin Smarandache whilst he was experiencing a dark time in life.

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EPILOGUE I leave you with my poems. Feel through me! I have achieves this volume in three years, but read it in T E N! It is a hut from the outside, and maybe a castle inside. (this volume holds connections with the earth!) The book has me between its covers - but now it is in its agony: ...

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Motto - 6 SHORT (AUTO)BIOGRAPHY - 7 THE MANIFESTO – PROGRAM - 9 =INAPPROPRIATE WORDS MADE APPROPRIATE= - 17 PEOPLE ARE FLYING THROUGH PEOPLE - 18 THE PHILOSOPHY OF PSYCHOLOGY - 19 OLD AGE WITHOUT YOUTH - 20 SCIENCE AND ART - 21 THIS OTHER WORLD - 22 VIVE LA PAIX! - 23 A NEEDED DRUG - 24 WESTERN POETRY - 25 PAZVANTE THE BLIND - 26 PHYSICAL EDUCATION / OF THE NERVES - 27 GEORGE DEVIL - 28 AT WORK: / WOMEN WITHOUT WORK - 29 ANTI-POEM OF LOVE - 30 ON WIMBLEY, IN BĂNIE - 31 COURSE OF GERMAN LANGUAGE - 33 FUSS WITH FISH – 34 PORTRAIT OF A GIRL - 35 SHE AND HE - 36 VIBRATIONS ON A SENSITIVE STRING - 37 A POSITIVE MINUS - 38 FRAGMENT OF FRAGMENT - 39 THE UNREAL IS REALITY - 40 BUREAUCRACY - 41 I LIVED MY LIFE / THE DYING WAY - 42 THE FIGHT OF OPPOSITES - 43 GO AHEAD, PLEASE! - 44 THEATER IN ABSURD - 45 HEARING AT GOD - 46 CITIZEN EDUCATION - 47 SCENE OF SCENERY - 48 DIALOGUE AT LONG DISTANCE - 49 THEATER ACTING - 50 DEMETER HAS DIED - 51 I EXIST AGAINST MYSELF - 52 ALLOW ME TO BE MYSELF - 53 CRIME WITHOUT PUNISHMENT - 54 LESSON OF PHILOSOPHY - 55 FLYING MANUAL - 56 PEACE TO YOU, LOVE - 57 LONG COUR...

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A new complete translation of his prose Memoirs, Mémoires d’outre-tombe.

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Testamentary Preface 1833 Book I Childhood 1768-1777 Book II Boyhood 1777-1784 Book III Adolescence, Combourg 1784-1786 Book IV Regiment, Court, Paris 1786-1789 Book V Revolution 1789-1791 Book VI To America 1791 Book VII Travels in New York State 1791 Book VIII Kentucky, Virginia, Return to France 1791-1792 Book IX With the Army of the Princes 1792 Book X Exile in England 1793-1797 Book XI First Literary Works 1798-1799 Book XII England, and Return to France 1799-1800 Book XIII Literary Fame 1800-1803 Book XIV Travels in the Midi, Napoleon, Rome 1802-1803 Book XV The Death of Madame de Beaumont, Rome 1803-1804 Book XVI The Execution of the Duc d’Enghien 1804 Book XVII Travels in the Auvergne, The Death of Lucile 1804-1805 Book XVIII The Levant, Armand, Les Martyrs 1806-1814 Book XIX Napoleon: Early Life, Italy, Egypt, 18th Brumaire: to 1800 Book XX Napoleon: Italy, Germany, Spain, The Papal States: to 1812 Book XXI Napoleon: Russia - Invasion and Retreat: to 1813 Book XXII Napoleon - Defeat and Exile: to 1815 Book XXIII Napoleon - The Hundred Days: 1815 Book XXIV Napoleon - St Helena: 1815-1821...

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A complete and unabridged e-edition of the collected verse of John Donne. Donne, 1572–1631, was born in London, England, and, as evidenced by the verse collected here, is one of the great English language poets and thinkers in modern history illuminating the human condition through a verse marked for its argument, metaphysical conceit, metaphorical illuminations, and deep passions, whether they be focussed on love, God (two of Donne's favorite foci), or some other theme. While his poetry is dense, it is also inspiring, wise, and an essential and vital piece in the evolution of western verse. Volume 6 in The Reader's Library Series. ISBN: 978-1-932023-48-0 https://www.facebook.com/williamralpheditions...

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"Batter my heart, three person’d God..." Batter my heart, three person’d God; for, you As yet but knock, breath, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise, and stand, o’rthrow me,’and bend Your force, to break, blow, burn, and make me new. I, like an usurpt Town, to another due, Labour to admit you, but oh, to no end. Reason your Viceroy in me, me should defend, But is captiv’d, and proves weak or untrue, Yet dearly’I love you and would be lov’d fain, But am betroth’d unto your enemy, Divorce me, untie, or break that knot again, Take me to you, imprison me, for I Except you’enthral me, never shall be free, Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me....

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Contents Introduction SONGS AND SONNETS The Flea The Good-Morrow Song ("Goe, and catch a falling starre...") Woman's Constancy The Undertaking The Sun Rising The Indifferent Love's Usury Canonization The Triple Fool Lovers' Infiniteness Song ("Sweetest Love, I doe not goe...") The Legacy A Feaver Air and Angels Breake of Day The Anniversary A Valediction of My Name, in the Window Twicknam Garden Valediction to His Book Community Love's Growth Love's Exchange Confined Love The Dream A Valediction of Weeping Love's Alchymy The Curse The Message A Nocturnal upon St. Lucie's Day Being the Shortest Day Witchcraft by a Picture The Bait The Apparition The Broken Heart A Valediction Forbidding Mourning The Extasie Love's Deity Love's Diet The Will The Funeral The Blossom The Primrose, Being at Mountgomery Castle upon the Hill, on Which It Is Situate The Relique The Damp The Dissolution A Jeat Ring Sent Negative Love The Prohibition The Expiration The Computation The Paradox Farewell to Love A Lecture upon the Shadow EPIGRAMS Epigrams ELEGIES Elegie I Elegie II Elegie III El...

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A complete collection of the poems of William Blake. Blake (1757-1827) was an English poet, engraver, and painter. Early in his life, his unique and deceptively simple poems marked the beginning of Romanticism, particularly those from his volumes Songs of Innocence (1789) and Songs of Experience (1794). Later work evolved into long mythological pieces informed by visions Blake claimed to have throughout his life. This volume collects all his poetic output, including those unfinished fragments in manuscript form....

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The Tyger Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night: What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry?   In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire of thine eyes! On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand, dare seize the fire?   And what shoulder, & what art, Could twist the sinews of thy heart? And when thy heart began to beat, What dread hand? & what dread feet?   What the hammer? what the chain, In what furnace was thy brain? What the anvil? what dread grasp, Dare its deadly terrors clasp?   When the stars threw down their spears And water’d heaven with their tears: Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee?   Tyger, Tyger burning bright, In the forests of the night: What immortal hand or eye, Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?...

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Introduction POETICAL SKETCHES To Spring To Summer To Autumn To Winter To the Evening Star To Morning Fair Elenor Song (How sweet I roam'd...) Song (My silks and fine array...) Song (Love and harmony combine...) Song (I love the jocund dance...) Song (Memory, hither come...) Mad Song Song (Fresh from the dewy hill...) Song (When early morn walks forth...) To the Muses Gwin, King of Norway An Imitation of Spenser Blind Man’s Buff King Edward the Third Prologue, Intended for a Dramatic Piece of King Edward the Fourth Prologue to King John A War Song to Englishmen The Couch of Death Contemplation Samson Song 1st by a Young Shepherd Song 2nd by a Young Shepherd Song by an Old Shepherd AN ISLAND IN THE MOON SONG OF INNOCENCE AND EXPERIENCE Songs of Innocence: Introduction The Shepherd The Ecchoing Green The Lamb The Little Black Boy The Blossom The Chimney Sweeper The Little Boy Lost The Little Boy Found Laughing Song A Cradle Song The Divine Image Holy Thursday Night Spring Nurse’s Song Infant Joy A Dream On Anothers Sorrow Songs of Experience: Introduction Earth’s Answer The Clod & ...

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The poems of the Canti below are complete but not in their originally published order. I have taken the liberty of re-arranging them into four groups, Personal (Poems 1-11), Philosophical (12-24), ‘Romantic’ (25-34), and Political (35-41). These categories are not exact, as Leopardi frequently blends elements together in the one poem, but they may help the reader, as they helped me, to adjust to his variations in style. The original published position of each poem is given in Roman numerals in the brackets following the poem’s title....

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1. To Silvia (XXI) 2. The Infinite (XII) 3. The Evening Of The Holiday (XIII) 4. To the Moon (XIV) 5. Saturday Night In The Village (XXV) 6. To Himself (XXVIII) 7. Night-Song Of A Wandering Shepherd of Asia (XXIII) 8. First Love (X) 9. The Solitary Bird (XI) 10. Imitation (XXXV) 11. Scherzo (XXXVI) 12. Moon-Set (XXXII) 13. Wild Broom (XXXIV) 14. The Calm After The Storm (XXIV) 15. Masterful Thought (XXVI) 16. Love And Death (XXVII) 17. Bas-Relief On An Ancient Tomb (XXX) 18. On A Lovely Lady’s Image (XXX1) 19. To Spring (or Of The Ancient Myths) (VII) 20. Hymn To The Patriarchs (VIII) 21. Sappho’s Last Song (IX) 22. To Count Carlo Pepoli (XIX) 23. Fragment (From Simonides I: XL) 24. Fragment (From Simonides II:XLI) 25. The Dream (XV) 26. The Solitary Life (XVI) 27. To His Lady (XVIII) 28. Memories (XXII) 29. The Re-awakening (Il Risorgimento: XX) 30. Consalvo (XVII) 31. Aspasia (XXIX) 32. Fragment (Alcetas and Melissus: XXXVII) 33. Fragment (Separation: XXXVIII) 34. Fragment (Turned to Stone: XXXIX) 35. To Italy (I) 36. On the Proposed Dante Monument in Florence (II) 37. To Angelo Mai (III) 38. F...

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Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was worn in Edinburgh, Scotland, and suffered from frail health all through childhood, an affliction that would follow him into adulthood and manifest itself ultimately as tuberculosis. He initially set out to be a lawyer and was admitted to the bar in 1875, though he never practiced. He is best known for his tales Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, though he wrote a number of other stories, excellent essays, and of course poems. Constantly searching for a climate that would ease his suffering, he died quite young at the age of 44 and was buried high on Mt. Vaea in his final home of Samoa, the site of which is immortalized in the poem “Requiem” contained within these pages. I was first introduced to his timeless A Child’s Garden of Verses by my mother as a child myself, and the simple, extremely perceptive moments beautifully rendered in Stevenson’s effortless cadences and perfect rhymes went a long way, I imagine, to making me believe from an early age that poetry was the best way to explain and discover everything, and subsequently made me want to be a poet mys...

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The Land of Nod From breakfast on through all the day At home among my friends I stay, But every night I go abroad Afar into the land of Nod.   All by myself I have to go, With none to tell me what to do— All alone beside the streams And up the mountain-sides of dreams.   The strangest things are there for me, Both things to eat and things to see, And many frightening sights abroad Till morning in the land of Nod.   Try as I like to find the way, I never can get back by day, Nor can remember plain and clear The curious music that I hear....

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“Introduction A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES To Alison Cunningham Bed in Summer A Thought At the Seaside Young Night Thought Whole Duty of Children Rain Pirate Story Foreign Lands Windy Nights Travel Singing Looking Forward A Good Play Where Go the Boats? Auntie’s Skirts The Land of Counterpane The Land of Nod My Shadow System A Good Boy Escape at Bedtime Marching Song The Cow Happy Thought The Wind Keepsake Mill Good and Bad Children Foreign Children The Sun’s Travels The Lamplighter My Bed Is a Boat The Moon The Swing Time to Rise Looking-Glass River Fairy Bread From a Railway Carriage Winter-Time The Hayloft Farewell to the Farm Northwest Passage I. Good Night II. Shadow March III. In Port The Child Alone 1. The Unseen Playmate 2. My Ship and I 3. My Kingdom 4. Picture-Books in Winter 5. My Treasures 6. Block City 7. The Land of Story-Books 8. Armies in the Fire 9. The Little Land Garden Days 1. Night and Day 2. Nest Eggs 3. The Flowers 4. Summer Sun 5. The Dumb Soldier 6. Autumn Fires 7. The Gardener 8. Historical Associations Envoys 1. To Willie and Henrietta 2. To...

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A selection of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's essential poems. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) was an English poet, critic, and philosopher. His Lyrical Ballads, published in 1798 with co-author William Wordsworth, marked the beginning for all intents and purposes of English Romanticism and included “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” Other notable poems include "This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison," “Christabel” and “Kubla Khan.” Volume 2 in The Reader's Library Series, ISBN: 978-1-932023-44-2. https://www.facebook.com/williamralpheditions...

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Kubla Khan Or, a vision in a dream. A Fragment.   In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round; And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills, Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover! A savage place! as holy and enchanted As e’er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover! And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething, As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing, A mighty fountain momently was forced: Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher’s flail: And mid these dancing rocks at once and ever It flung up momently the sacred river. Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood and dale the sacred river ran, Then rea...

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Contents Introduction Sonnet: To the Autumnal Moon A Mathematical Problem To the Rev. George Coleridge I II III IV Sonnet: On Quitting School for College Sonnet: To the River Otter On a Discovery Made Too Late The Eolian Harp Lines in the Manner of Spenser Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement Sonnet: Composed on a Journey Homeward; the Author Having Received Intelligence of the Birth of a Son, Sept. 20, 1796 Sonnet: On Receiving a Letter Informing Me of the Birth of a Son Sonnet: To A Friend Who Asked How I Felt When the Nurse First Presented My Infant to Me This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Argument Part I Part II Part III Part IV Part V Part VI Part VII Fire, Famine, and Slaughter A War Eclogue Frost at Midnight Kubla Khan Fears in Solitude The Nightingale The Wanderings of Cain Prefatory Note The Wanderings of Cain The Devil's Thoughts I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII XIII XIV XV XVI XVII Christabel Preface Part I Part II Dejection: An Ode [Written April 4, 1802] I II III IV V VI VII VIII The Language of Birds T...

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A meticulously edited edition of John Keats’ verse collecting all of his poems sans his two long verse plays. Keats was born in London, England, on October 31, 1795. He dedicated his short life to the creation of poetry characterized by its sensuous and vivid imagery, classical themes, technical mastery and sincere and authentic emotional tenor. He died tragically young in 1821 of tuberculosis, a disease that had plagued his life since he took a walking tour of the Lake District in 1818. Volume 5 in The Reader's Library Series. ISBN: 978-1-932023-47-3 https://www.facebook.com/williamralpheditions...

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Ode to a Nightingale I My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains     My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains     One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: ’Tis not through envy of thy happy lot,     But being too happy in thine happiness,—         That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees,             In some melodious plot     Of beechen green, and shadows numberless,         Singest of summer in full-throated ease.   II O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been     Cool’d a long age in the deep-delved earth, Tasting of Flora and the country green,     Dance, and Provençal song, and sunburnt mirth! O for a beaker full of the warm South,     Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene,         With beaded bubbles winking at the brim,             And purple-stained mouth;     That I might drink, and leave the world unseen,         And with thee fade away into the forest dim:   III Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget     What thou among the leaves hast never known, The weariness, the fever, and the fret     Here, where men sit and hear each ...

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Contents Introduction Imitation of Spencer On Peace On Death Lines Written on 29 May, the Anniversary of Charles’ Restoration, on Hearing Bells Ringing Song: Stay, Ruby Breasted Warbler, Stay Fill for Me a Brimming Bowl As from the Darkening Gloom a Silver Dove To Lord Byron To Chatterton Written on the Day that Mr. Leigh Hunt Left Prison To Hope Ode to Apollo To Some Ladies On Receiving a Curious Shell, and a Copy of Verses, from the Same Ladies To Emma Woman! When I Behold Thee Flippant, Vain Sonnet to Solitude Epistle to George Felton Mathew To —— (Had I a Man's Fair Form...) To —— (Hadst Thou Liv'd in Days of Old...) I Am As Brisk Women, Wine, and Snuff Specimen of an Induction to a Poem Calidore To One Who Has Been Long in City Pent Oh! How I Love, on a Fair Summer's Eve To a Friend Who Sent Me Some Roses Happy Is England! I Could Be Content To My Brother George Epistle to My Brother George Epistle to Charles Cowden Clarke How Many Bards Gild the Lapses of Time! On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer Keen, Fitful Gusts Are Whisp’ring Here and There On Leaving Some Friends at an Early Hou...

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The selection of poems in this anthology may seem a bit unorthodox for Polish literature experts. I have no degree or expertise in any sort of literary research, which may well be the reason for my bizarre taste as presented here. I have tried my very best to include mainly those poems that are obligatory readings in Polish high schools, so that the English Reader can have the chance to get to know a portion of the choicest Polish poetry that an average Pole has willy-nilly come across in his life (one of the poems happens to be a well-known Christmas carol, even). However, Witkacy’s poem about his portrait company might be an exception to the rule. I have (un)fortunately excluded all the longer though important and well-known poems, since I have my deep and well-grounded doubts whether they would ever get read. Sigh. Again, Ode to Youth by Adam Mickiewicz is an exception and hopefully some will read it. I do realize that for the Modern Reader, it may come as a very odd practice to use the thou-thee-thy forms even in translations of classical poetry. I have made use of them, but only in the earlier poems i.e. since the beginnings...

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To the Young by Adam Asnyk (1838–1897) The brightening flame of truth pursue, Seek to discover ways no human knows. With every secret now revealed to you, The soul of man expands within the new. And God still bigger grows! Although you may the flowers of myths remove, Although you may the fabulous dark disperse, And tear the mist of fancy from above; There’ll be no shortage of new things to love, Farther in the universe. Each epoch has its special goals in store, And soon forgets the dreams of older days. So, bear the torch of learning in the fore, And join the making of new eras’ lore. The House of the Future raise! But trample not the altars of the past! Although you shall much finer domes erect. The holy flames upon the stones still last, And human love lives there and guards them fast, And them you owe respect! Now with the world that vanishes from view, Dragging down the perfect rainbow of delight, Be gently reconciled in wisdom true. Your stars, oh, youthful conquerors, they, too, Will fade into the night!...

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Translator’s note Mother of God Song XXV On Health God’s Plaything Man Fickle To a Corpse When God Is Born, No Power Prevails Vanity My Testament [In Sophie’s Diary] In Verona My Little Song (II) The Tempest To*** Upon the Alps in Splügen 1829 Uncertainty To My Cicerone Ode to Youth [Defend Me from Myself] To the Young Oh, Void Complaints No, Nothing Happened There A Sonnet (One Heart) The End of the 19th Century Hymn to Nirvana Welcome My Beloved Mountains A Portrait Company [I Want No Weeping at My Grave] About the translator...

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Alexander Pope (1688-1744) is widely considered to be the best poet of the Augustan age, and perhaps English verse’s best satirist ever. Pope was mostly self-taught having been denied a formal protestant education because of his family’s Roman Catholic beliefs; he also suffered from the effects of Pott’s disease his entire life, which left him deformed and of small stature never growing past the height of four feet six inches. Despite these challenges, Pope flourished in English society and was likely its first professional literary writer having garnered significant income from the sales of books to the public as opposed to traditional patronages, capitalizing mostly on his excellent translations of Homer and an edited edition of Shakespeare. A close friend of Jonathan Swift in their famous Scriblerus Club, he was quite famous in his time, and while his reputation declined in the 19th century, he is now considered the most canonical poet of his era and the true master of the heroic couplet (followed closely by his predecessor, John Dryden) and English poetic satire. This edition of his poems collects all of his major work, and most...

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from "Essay on Criticism" “Tis hard to say if greater want of skill Appear in writing or in judging ill; But of the two less dangerous is th’ offence To tire our patience than mislead our sense: Some few in that, but numbers err in this; Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss; A fool might once himself alone expose; Now one in verse makes many more in prose.     ’Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own. In Poets as true Genius is but rare, True Taste as seldom is the Critic’s share; Both must alike from Heav’n derive their light, These born to judge, as well as those to write. Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well; Authors are partial to their wit, ’tis true, But are not Critics to their judgment too? “    Yet if we look more closely, we shall find Most have the seeds of judgment in their mind: Nature affords at least a glimm’ring light; The lines, tho’ touch’d but faintly, are drawn right: But as the slightest sketch, if justly traced, Is by ill col’ring but the more disgraced, So by false learning is good sens...

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Introduction Ode on Solitude A Paraphrase (On Thomas à Kempis) To the Author of a Poem Entitled Successio The First Book of Statius’s Thebais Imitation of Chaucer Imitation of Spenser: The Alley Imitation of Waller: On a Lady Singing to Her Lute Imitation of Waller: On a Fan of the Author’s Design Imitation of Abraham Cowley: The Garden Imitation of Abraham Cowley: Weeping Imitation of Earl of Rochester: On Silence Imitation of Earl of Dorset: Artemisia Imitation of Earl of Dorset: Phryne Imitation of Dr. Swift: The Happy Life of a Country Parson Pastorals I. Spring; or, Damon II. Summer; or, Alexis III. Autumn; or, Hylas and Ægon IV. Winter; or, Daphne Windsor Forest Paraphrases from Chaucer January and May; or, The Merchant’s Tale The Wife of Bath The Temple of Fame Translations from Ovid Sappho to Phaon The Fable of Dryope Vertumnus and Pomona An Essay on Criticism Part I Part II Part III Ode for Music on St. Cecilia’s Day Argus The Balance of Europe The Translator On Mrs. Tofts, a Famous Opera-Singer Epistle to Mrs. Blount, with the Works of Voiture Adriani Morientis Ad Animam Epistle to M...

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Walt Whitman (1819-1892) is widely considered to be the greatest and most influential of all American poets. LEAVES OF GRASS, Whitman's sole book published at his own expense, represents almost the entirety of his poetical output. The first edition of LEAVES OF GRASS, which he would continue to revise over the course of his life expanding and rewriting it until the year of his death, appeared in 1855. This volume represents the final edition, commonly referred to as the “deathbed” edition, and comes with a prefatory note from Whitman asserting that this is the version he most considered full and complete. While it was a commercial and critical failure during Whitman’s lifetime, LEAVES OF GRASS has gone on to become one of the most canonical books of poetry ever written, influencing and inspiring countless artists in the last two centuries. Written in a groundbreaking prosodic style Whitman referred to as “free verse” LEAVES OF GRASS takes the individual and a young American democracy as its themes and illustrates them with a long-lined cadence Whitman coined his “barbaric yawp” along with all the details that constitute them, a few ...

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O Captain! My Captain! O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring;                     But O heart! heart! heart!                          O the bleeding drops of red,                               Where on the deck my Captain lies,                                    Fallen cold and dead. O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells; Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for you the bugle trills, For you bouquets and ribbon’d wreaths—for you the shores a-crowding, For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;                     Here Captain! dear father!                          This arm beneath your head!                               It is some dream that on the deck,                                    You’ve fallen cold and dead.   My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still, My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will, The ship is anchor’d safe and sound, its voyage closed...

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Contents Introduction LEAVES OF GRASS INSCRIPTIONS One's-Self I Sing As I Ponder'd in Silence In Cabin'd Ships at Sea To Foriegn Lands To a Historian To Thee Old Cause Eidólons For Him I Sing When I Read the Book Beginning My Studies Beginners To the States On Journeys through the States To a Certain Cantatrice Me Imperturbe Savantism The Ship Starting I Hear America Singing What Place Is Besieged Still though the One I Sing Shut Not Your Doors Poets to Come To You Thou Reader STARTING FROM PAUMANOK SONG OF MYSELF CHILDREN OF ADAM To the Garden the World From Pent-Up Aching Rivers I Sing the Body Electric A Woman Waits for Me Spontaneous Me One Hour to Madness and Joy Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd Ages and Ages Returning at Intervals We Two, How Long We Were Fool'd O Hymen! O Hymenee! I Am He that Aches with Love Native Moments Once I Pass'd through a Populous City I Heard You Solemn-Sweet Pipes of the Organ Facing West from California's Shores As Adam Early in the Morning CALAMUS In Paths Untrodden Scented Herbage of My Breast Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand For Y...

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A new Anthology of 1400 Quotations from the complete works arranged by theme.

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Commands Compassion, Empathy, Mercy and Forgiveness Compliments and their Opposites Conscience and Doubt Constancy, Trust and Faith Courage and Cowardice Crime, Punishment, Justice and the Law Death and Fate Dishonour, Dishonesty, Inconstancy and Betrayal Doctors, Illness, Medicine England and Elsewhere Freedom and Imprisonment Friendship Good Advice and Bad Good Wishes and their Opposites Happiness and Sadness, Humour and Gravity Honour and Honesty Kings and Kingship Journeys and Travel Language and the Arts Learning, Literature, Wit, Wisdom and Foolishness London Love and Jealousy, Hatred and Envy Lust, Desire, Passion, Sexuality Madness and Sanity Magic, Astrology, Superstition, and the Supernatural Men Music, Song and Dance Myths and Fables Nature , Trees, Flowers, Creatures Ownership, Money and Possession Prayers, Pleas, Curses, Threats and Promises Pride and Humility Rank and Status, Power, Order, Custom and Authority Service and Slavery Sleep, Waking, Dreams, Visions and Imagination Sons and Daughters Theatre, Drama and the Stage Time Truths, Truisms, Proverbs and Philosophy War and Co...

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The whole paradoxist distich should be as a geometric unitary parabola, hyperbola, ellipse at the borders between art, philosophy, rebus, and mathematics – which exist in complementariness. The School of Paradoxist Literature, which evolved around 1980s, continues through these bi-verses closed in a new lyric exact formula, but with an opening to essence. For this kind of procedural poems one can elaborate mathematical algorithms and implement them in a computer: but, it is preferable a machine with … soul!...

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I M M O D E S T With the shame Shamelessness U N D E C I D E D Fighting Himself J A Z Z ( I ) Melodious Anarchy J A Z Z ( I I ) Anarchic Melody...

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Fore/word and Back/word _________ 3 The making of the distich : _____ 3 Characteristics: ______________ 3 Historical considerations: _____ 5 Types of Paradoxist distiches ___ 8 1. Clichés paraphrased: ___ 8 2. Parodies: _____________ 8 3. Reversed formulae: ____ 8 4. Double negation _______ 8 5. Double affirmation, ____ 8 6. Turn around on false tracks: _________________ 8 7. Hyperboles (exaggerated): __________________ 8 8. With nuance changeable from the title: ________ 8 9. Epigrammatic: ________ 8 10. Pseudo-paradoxes: ___ 8 11. Tautologies: ________ 9 12. Redundant: _________ 9 13. Based on pleonasms: _ 9 14. or on anti-pleonasms: 9 15. Substitution of the attribute in collocations ___ 9 16. Substitution of the complement in collocations 9 17. Permutation of various parts of the whole: ___ 9 18. The negation of the clichés ______________ 10 19. Antonymization (substantively, adjectively, etc.) ________________ 10 20. Fable against the grain: _________________ 10 21. Change in grammatical category (preserving substitutions’ homonymy): ________________ 10 22. Epistolary or colloquia style: _________...