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Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell was a volume of poetry published jointly by the three Bronte sisters, Charlotte, Emily and Anne in 1846, and their first work to ever go in print. To evade contemporary prejudice against female writers, the Bronte sisters adopted androgynous first names. Marked by profound sentiments, gravity and melodious harmony, the poems are strewn on the fields of soulful love, rueful reminiscence and the immortal yearnings of a Christian soul, and represent a fragrant assemblage of noetic flowers from the glebes of olden England. For those not familiar with the Bronte sisters' poetry, it should be noted that many of their poems were written in the context of their fictional, shared worlds of Gondal and Angria. (Written by Ellis Christoff)...

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Sir Walter Raleigh (c. 1552 – 29 October 1618) was an English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, courtier, spy, and explorer. He is also well known for popularising tobacco in England. Raleigh's poetry is written in the relatively straightforward, unornamented mode known as the plain style. C. S. Lewis considered Raleigh one of the era's silver poets, a group of writers who resisted the Italian Renaissance influence of dense classical reference and elaborate poetic devices. In poems such as What is Our Life and The Lie, Raleigh expresses a contemptus mundi (contempt of the world) attitude more characteristic of the Middle Ages than of the dawning era of humanistic optimism. But, his lesser-known long poem The Ocean to Cynthia combines this vein with the more elaborate conceits associated with his contemporaries Edmund Spenser and John Donne, expressing a melancholy sense of history. A minor poem of Raleigh's captures the atmosphere of the court at the time of Queen Elizabeth I. His response to Christopher Marlowe's The Passionate Shepherd to His Love was The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd. The Passionate Shepherd to His Love was writ...

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The Book of Urizen is one of the major prophetic books of the English poet William Blake, illustrated by Blake's own plates. It was originally published as The First Book of Urizen in 1794. Later editions dropped the word first. The book takes its name from the character Urizen in Blake's mythology, who represents alienated reason as the source of oppression. The book describes Urizen as the primeaval priest, and describes how he became separated from the other Eternals to create his own alienated and enslaving realm of religious dogma. Los and Enitharmon create a space within Urizen's fallen universe to give birth to their son Orc, the spirit of revolution and freedom. Urizen's first four sons are Thiriel, Utha, Grodna and Fuzon (respectively elemental Air, Water, Earth, Fire, according to Chapter VIII). The last of these plays a major role in The Book of Ahania, published the following year. (Summary from Wikipedia)...

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Poetry, Fantasy

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volunteers bring you 10 recordings of Vitai Lampada by Sir Henry Newbolt. 'Vitai lampada' is a quotation from De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of the Universe) by Lucretius and literally means 'The torch of life.' This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 17th, 2010....

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Adventure, Instruction, War stories, Poetry

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Pope’s Essay on Man, a masterpiece of concise summary in itself, can fairly be summed up as an optimistic enquiry into mankind’s place in the vast Chain of Being. Each of the poem’s four Epistles takes a different perspective, presenting Man in relation to the universe, as individual, in society and, finally, tracing his prospects for achieving the goal of happiness. In choosing stately rhyming couplets to explore his theme, Pope sometimes becomes obscure through compressing his language overmuch. By and large, the work is a triumphant exercise in philosophical poetry, communicating its broad and commonplace truths in superbly balanced phrases which remind us that Pope, alas, is one of the most quoted but least read writers in English: “Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.” (Summary by Martin Geeson)...

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Literature, Poetry, Religion

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A collection of poetry relating to the author himself based on personal experiences.

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FATE IRONY before may I have been ”me” the fate was done from geometric signs Lobacevsky’s ones after my face but not looking like me in dropping of time...

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Meeting of minds: Florentin Smarandache, preface by Cezar Ivãnescu: 5 1) IN THE VICINITY OF VICINITY – cycle: 6 PIT OF WORDS: 7 FATE IRONY: 8 DEFEATED TREE: 9 THE YELLOW ROSE: 10 WHEN I LOOK AT YOU: 11 BROKEN MIRROR: 12 LEFT FLOWER AND GREEN: 13 GOOD MORNING: 14 NIGHT SPIRIT: 15 SOUL WITHOUT SOUL: 16 2) TOO LONG ROUTE AMONG THE FOREIGNERS (and I cannot turn back my sight anymore) – cycle: 17 PASSING THOUGHTS: 18 THE DEAF AND THE DUMB: 19 HEALING: 20 THE MIRROR: 21 A YOKE: 22 WHAT DO WE WANT?: 23 THE GREAT ARMY: 24 TEST AT GEOGRAPHY: 25 MYSELF LIKE A CONTRADICTION: 26 FIRST CLASS PLANE TICKET: 28 NOBODY: 33 HUNTING: 34 HOSPITALITY: 35 DESIRE: 36 WITHOUT CEREMONIES: 37 YES AND NO: 39 STRIP-TEASE: 40 OH, YES: 41 COURAGE: 42 RECIPROCITY: 43 PRAYER: 44 CONTENTMENT: 48 WISH: 49 ALONE IN THE CHRISTMAS NIGHT: 51 THE MATCHMAKERS: 57 THE END: 65 ADIEU: 66 3) POEMS FROM MY SOUL’S EXILE – cycle: 68 THE SHADOW OF AUROCHS: 69 EMIGRANT TO INFINITY: 70 THE COUNTRY AND ME: 71 THE SAP OF THE LIFE: 72 THORNY ROSE OF LOVE: 73 YOU ARE SO SINGLE ON THE EARTH…: 74 SYMPHONY IN WALNUT WOOD: 75 DON’T SET YOUR ...

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Claude Simon was trained as a humanist in arts and sciences in France, the UK and the USA. He worked as a teacher, researcher and consultant in schools, universities and private companies. He lived in London for ten years, then in Princeton and New York for eight years. He met the artist Cynthia in New York and they’ve been together ever since. They both traveled extensively through South America, Europe, Africa and Asia. Claude now lives in France. Throughout his life, he kept diaries of his numerous professional and personal experiences. He decided then to put his notes into readable formats, whether short stories, novels or poetry. Claude still occasionally teaches and coaches people, but he is now focusing his energies on finalizing book projects conceived over the past twenty years. With the “Mirror …” poems, from beautiful love feelings to mysterious existential questioning, Claude takes you through fireworks of suggestions, sensations and dreams. In turn plain and simple, soul searching or uncomfortably dizzy, his thoughtful melodies will carry you across unknown yet familiar spiritual landscapes. We hope they bri...

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(…) Here I am, with you, like an alien brother, You are here, with me, Intimate kin stranger, The door opens, The flood drowns us And sweeps away All words and thoughts. I am here in you, You are here in me, We are together in our unknown home, We are together, both in everything, Both with everything. (…) (from “Being in Nothingness”)...

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SENSELESS LOVE p. 7 LEARN AND UNLEARN p. 11 RESPONSIBLE p. 17 UNIFORM p. 21 REVOLUTION p. 25 A STORY OF A TIME p. 29 IN AND OUT p. 33 EVERYMAN AND NOBODY p. 41 I AM NOT ME p. 43 NO MONEY WORLD p. 51 ONE DAY p. 55 EVIL GOOD p. 57 INFINITE p. 61 A STORY WITHOUT A PLOT p. 67 MY NEW HOME p. 79 A PATH LIKE ANY PATH p. 81 BEING IN NOTHINGNESS p. 87 ...

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The work was composed between 1790 and 1793, in the period of radical foment and political conflict immediately after the French Revolution. The title is an ironic reference to Emanuel Swedenborg's theological work Heaven and Hell published in Latin 33 years earlier. Swedenborg is directly cited and criticized by Blake several places in the Marriage. Though Blake was influenced by his grand and mystical cosmic conception, Swedenborg's conventional moral structures and his Manichean view of good and evil led Blake to express a deliberately depolarized and unified vision of the cosmos in which the material world and physical desire are equally part of the divine order, hence, a marriage of heaven and hell. The book is written in prose, except for the opening Argument and the Song of Liberty. The book describes the poet's visit to Hell, a device adopted by Blake from Dante's Inferno and Milton's Paradise Lost....

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Literature, Philosophy, Satire, Poetry

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Etymologically, aphorism + floral = aph(L)orism, which is a short reflection written on a floral design, or a short poetry accompanied by an artistic background. They are colorful contemplations. Maximus in minimis (Lat.) means very much in very little [max in min], or condensed thought, or ideating essence. They are actually maxims, adages, sayings mostly in one line (uni-stich) with a title, as a metaphoric statement, a breathing momentum that oils our soul....

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Nonchalantly : The wind with its mantle steps lightly. Skin Condition : The Sun has spots too. At what time? When it rains, God cries. Atmosphere : Blue, as the sky dirtied by clouds. Bright : A balcony full of Sun. Natural disaster : The swans look drunk on the fetid lake. Surprisingly : The crow is a beautiful black. Elegant woman : A bird high on her legs. Most powerful chess piece : You are a queen but only in the dark. Medicinal plant : You’re a flower but amongst weeds. Force that attracts food : The stomach’s gravitation pulls me to food....

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Passion.......................................................................23 Worthless.....................................................................23 Tired of you....................................................................23 Tittle-tattle....................................................................23 Talk is cheep...................................................................24 Give the man what he doesn’t have.................................................24 Novel for (non) writers...........................................................24 Desolate......................................................................24 Did I have the pleasure...........................................................24 Sloppy work....................................................................25 Despicable.....................................................................25 Wanted.......................................................................25 Talking in vain..................................................................25 Use caplets.....................................................