The ten bucolic poems freely imitating Theocritus' Idylls, and creating a pastoral world of love and song.

A modern translation of some of Lorca's works, including Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías.

Singing Cafè The Guitar Journey Lola Malagueña Sonnet Serenata Preciosa and the Breeze The Quarrel The Gypsy Nun Ballad of the Black Sorrow Saint Gabriel Saint Michael Ballad of the Spanish Civil Guard Thamar and Amnon Sound of the Cuban Negroes Madrigal for the City of Santiago Nocturne of the Drowned Youth Dance of the Santiago Moon Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías Sonnet of the Sweet Complaint Wounds of Love The Beloved Sleeps on the Breast of the Poet Two Laws Sonnet Night-Song of the Andalusian Sailors Index of First Lines...

Modern translation of some of Lorca's work, including Casida of the Recumbent Woman.

The Ballad of the Salt-Water Encounter From Moon Songs Dream Wish The Little Ballad of the Three Rivers Paso (The Images of the Passion) The Dawn A Singing Casida of the Recumbent Woman Gacela of the Flight Night of Insomniac Love Gacela of the Terrible Presence Sonnet of the Wreath of Roses The Poet asks his Love to write Song Pueblo Landscape The Prisoner Remanso, Final Song Index of First Lines...

Modern translations of Lorca's works, including Romance Sonámbulo and The Unfaithful Wife.

Ballad of the Small Plaza. Song of the Rider It’s True. Song of the Barren Orange Tree. The Moon Wakes. Farewell Romance de la Luna, Luna Romance Sonámbulo The Unfaithful Wife Gacela of Unexpected Love Casida de la Rosa Casida of the Dark Doves ‘Ay voz secreta del amor oscuro!’ Every Song...

Further Selected Poems by this great Spanish poet, including his elegy for Lorca.

Dedication (from The Man Watching, 1939) ‘Silence of metal sad and sonorous’ ‘My name is earth though I’m named Miguel’ Elegy for Federico García Lorca The Winds of the People The Olive Harvesters Song of the Soldier Husband Letter Last Song Each Time I Pass Carry Me to the Graveyard Grasses, Nettles Wretched Wars Lullaby of the Onion The Last Corner Casida of the Thirsty Man To Smile with the Sad Joy of the Olive-Tree Index of First Lines...

His lecture Importancia histórica y artística del primitivo canto Andaluz llamado ‘Cante Jondo’ - 1922.

Twenty poems of Rafael Alberti.

Contents Naming The Dawn The Dead Angels What I Left, For You Song 8 Mauve-Moon-Of-Ice My Roe Deer Peñaranda de Duero For Federico García Lorca The Dove ‘If my voice dies on land’ ‘If I was born a farmhand’ Alba Of The Dark Night The Ballad Of What The Wind Said The Collegiate Angels The Angel Of Numbers The Bull Of Death Invitation To The Air The Cry Coming And Going Blue Index of First Lines...

Seven spiritual poems by San Juan de la Cruz.

Song of the Soul that Delights in Reaching the Supreme StateVerses on the Ecstasy of Deep Contemplation Song of the Soul in Intimate Communication of Union with God’s Love Spiritual Verses Song of the Soul that Delights in Knowing God through Faith A Gloss with Spiritual Meaning Verses of the Soul that Pines to See God Index of First Lines...

From collections preceding The Gypsy Ballads.

Weather Vane New Songs The Footsteps of la Siguiriya Cellar Song Juan Breva Earth Berceuse for a Mirror sleeping Variation (From Remansos) Running Towards River Bend Flash of Light Madrigals The Garden Print of the Garden II Song of the Boy with Seven Hearts The Dune Schematic Nocturne Little Song of Seville Adelina Walking By Lover Venus Two Moons of Evening Lucía Martínez Little Song of First Desire Prelude Index of First Lines...

These songs can be read as poetry as the reader sees the changes that the writer goes through as he ages and what themes have entered into his conscience....

The following is an excerpt from the title song that illustrates this. "Take me by my fortunes Show me right from wrong Make me dance a waltzing step Following my songs Spinning 'round my weary eyes Can only see what's inside Gentle Dreams and Simple Truths That time has taught me to hide." Songs by Keith Wayne Phillips ...

Gentle Dreams and Simple Truths- Songs by Keith Wayne Phillips Contents- Page Introduction 9 Songs- 1) Troubled World 10 2) An Unfulfilled Dream 13 3) I Am Getting Older 15 4) A Question 17 5) I’ve Had Dreams 19 6) Be Alone 21 7) Francine’s Dreams 23 8) Feeding Time 26 9) I’ll Get By 29 10) To D.D. 31 Songs continued- Page 11) I Was Born In Summer 33 12) I Knew A Girl 36 13) A Look At Christmas 39 14) Poem- Song For Darkness 41 15) Early Thought 42 16) Walkin’ To San Francisco 43 17) Where Are You Now? 46 18) Still Wondrin’ Why 48 19) Poem- To Claire 50 20) It’s April 52 21) Road To Freedom 54 22) The Songwriter 56 23) I Sing My Songs For You 59 24) If You Want To 61 25) To Sing My Song 63 26) Candle 65 27) Try To Love 67 28) While The World Goes By 69 29) Some Say 72 30) She Is The Reason 74 31) If I Were American 76 32) I Feel So Happy 77 33) I’ve Seen The World 79 34) Oh Blues 82 35) Biggest And The Best 84 36) Poem- Return To Dust 86 37) Poem- Gather 88 38) Steady Job 92 40) Got The Blues 94 41) Tak...

From his complete works, including Requiem for a Friend, and extracts from the Sonnets to Orpheus.

Love-Song Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes Alcestis Archaic Torso of Apollo Buddha in Glory Requiem for a Friend Beloved From Sonnets to Orpheus A tree climbed there. O pure uprising! And it was almost a girl, and she came out of A god can do so. But tell me how a man Raise no gravestone. Only let the rose Praising, that’s it! As one ordered to praise, Only one who has raised the lyre But you now, you whom I knew like a flower O this is the creature that has never been. Will transformation. O long for the flame, Be in front of all parting, as though it were already See the flowers, those, so true to the earth, O fountain-mouth, you giver, you Mouth, Oh come and go. You, almost a child still, complete Quiet friend of many distances, feel World Was Strongest Star His Epitaph Index of First Lines...

A Granadine poem of the 19th Century, divided into several gardens with scenes of song and dance, 1935

Fifty-four major poems in verse translation.

The Lovely Night May Song Welcome and Farewell The Rose-Bush on The Moor The Violet The Artist’s Evening Song New Love, New Life To Belinda ‘Holde Lili, warst so lang’ The Traveller’s Night Song I The Traveller’s Night Song II The Fisherman The ErlKing ‘Wer nie sein Brot’ Mignon ‘Heiss mich nicht redden,’ ‘Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt’ To The Moon (Final Version) Song Of The Spirits Over The Water To Charlotte Von Stein ‘Du bist mein und bist so zierlich,’ Measuring Time Anacreon’s Grave Roman Elegies I Roman Elegies II (First Version) Roman Elegies III Roman Elegies V Roman Elegies VII Roman Elegies XIII Roman Elegies XVII Roman Elegies XX The Nearness of the Beloved Venetian Epigrams I Venetian Epigrams XXVII Venetian Epigrams XCVI Venetian Epigrams CIII Permanence In Change Provision for the Journey Early Spring May Song Night Song The New Copernicus Ever and Everywhere March April Poetry and Form Blissful Yearning Night of the Full Moon At Midnight’s Hour A Trilogy of Passion From the Chinese-German Book of Hours and Seasons To the Full Moon Rising The Betrothed Legacy Index ...

A further collection of the author's original poetry.

Then With The Dead Two Mirror of Light World Does Not Wait All Mountain, No Eye Thesis What We Do Little Love Song Hazel The Gate Wait Bark Icon Not To By Now Night-Song On Judgement Day Mind Pass Fire Passing Alone Exchange OK I See At the End of the Night Transmute Bone, Ash, Gold Going Through Light Fate Love in the Mind Make. Do. With Truth The Whole Thing Return They Go Earth Write the Poem Temple Mind Real Phases Image No Self Work Eye Let Go After Orpheus You Ask When We Are Dead No Confession Your Dress On Either Side The Passage of Time Mythopoeic Enna Holly-Leaf Little Song Index of First Lines...

Extensive selected poems in verse translation.

From: Evening, 1912 Love At Tsarskoye Selo ‘Now the pillow’s,’ Reading Hamlet ‘Hands clasped under the dark veil.’ ‘Memory of sun ebbs from the heart.’ ‘A grey cloud in the sky overhead,’ Song of the Last Meeting ‘Drink my soul, as if with a straw’ ‘I’ve written down the words’ ‘I came here, in idleness.’White Night Evening Room Legend on An Unfinished Portrait Imitation of Innokenty Annensky ‘I pray to the ray from the window-pane’ ‘He loved three things, alive:’ From: Rosary, 1914 A Ride ‘I won’t beg for your love.’ Evening ‘Here we’re all drunkards and whores,’ ‘…And no-one came to meet me’ ‘My imagination, obediently,’ ‘We shall not sip from the same glass,’ ‘Always so many pleas from a lover!’ ‘For the last time, we met,’ ‘The high vault is bluer’ For Mikhail Lozinsky Memory’s Voice 8th November 1913 ‘Evening hours at the desk,’ ‘My heart beats smoothly, steadily,’ ‘As a silver, delicate strand’ Venice The Guest For Alexander Blok From: White Flock, 1917 Solitude ‘My voice is weak, but not my will’ ‘The sky’s blue lacquer grows dim,’ ‘Oh, and the day was cold,’ ‘There’s a secret border ...

Selected Poems from the French 19th century including poems by Victor Hugo, Gérard de Nerval, Alfred de Musset, Théophile Gautier, Leconte de Lisle, Stéphane Mallarmé, Paul Verlaine, Jules Laforgue and Guillaume Apollinaire....

Victor Hugo (1802-1885) Clair de Lune Since I have touched my lips… My Two Daughters Her feet were bare… Tomorrow, at Dawn Ave, Dea; moriturus te salutat June Nights To Théophile Gautier Gérard de Nerval (1808-1855) Gothic Song El Desdichado (The Disinherited) Myrtho Horus Delfica Artemis Golden Lines Alfred de Musset (1810-1857) Song Barbarina’s Song On a Dead Lady Sonnet Théophile Gautier (1811-1872) Sonnet The Hippopotamus Carmen Art Leconte de Lisle (1818-1894) The Jaguar’s Dream Stéphane Mallarmé (1844-1896) Sigh O so dear Sonnet Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) The piano kissed… In the Endless Parsifal The sky’s above the roof…. A Poor Young Shepherd Poetic Art Jules Laforgue (1860-1887) Pierrots Pierrot’s Speech Pierrot’s Melancholy Apothesosis Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) Annie Rhenish Night...

Forty-One More Poems including The Flawed Bell, Parisian Dream translated into a modernized version.

To A Creole Lady The Litanies of Satan Letter to Sainte-Beuve Elevation The Snake That Dances ‘Je t’adore à l’égal de la voûte nocturne’ A Rotting Carcase The Head of Hair The Flawed Bell The Owls Wandering Gypsies Bad Luck Music Evening Twilight Morning Twilight The Invitation to the Voyage (Prose Poem) The Irreparable The Poison The Cat Monologue Autumn Song Autumn Sonnet To She Who Is Too Light-hearted Reversibility Confession Harmony of Evening To the Reader The Enemy Mist and Rain The Game The Seven Old Men The Digging Skeleton Parisian Dream The Inquisitive Man’s Dream Sympathetic Horror The Alchemy of Sadness Draft Epilogue for the Second Edition of Les Fleurs du mal The Voice The Warner The Lid The Sunset of Romanticism Index by First Line...

Poetry collection featuring poems of empathy

Introduction 9 Empathy Rising 11 When First, My Love, We Meet 13 Darkness and Light 14 For Debi, My Bride 15 Dave 16 The Black Girl to the Jehovah's Witness 17 Listen 18 Then and Now 19 Chance Reunion 20 Resurrection 21 A Memory 22 Eulogy for us, because 23 Father 24 The Idealist Who Wouldn’t Let Go 25 Youth’s Revenge 27 The Masquerade 28 Baby Grand Piano 29 Faces 31 New Glasses 33 Passing By 35 The Waiter 37 Hopelessly Lost 38 Last Dream 40 To One Who Has Deemed Me an Enemy 43 The Businessman 44 The Janitor 45 Shy Attack 46 The Fisherman Views Creation 48 The Drunkard Views Creation 49 Street Scene 50 Still Life 52 Numbers 53 Words 54 Janet 56 Richard Bradley 57 Weather-Beaten and Truth-Seasoned 58 What to Say to the Next Messiah on Your Doorstep or TV 60 Moses 61 The Murderer’s Confession 63 For Us (With Love) 65 Prayer of the Good Consumer 67 Evergreen 69 The Rape of a Dream 71 Yours to Use If You Choose 73 Flimsy Excuses 74 The Hunters 77 Melrose Minnesota 78 Song of the Last Animal 80 To His Former Psychologist 82 To His Future Psychologist 85 Joe “the grinner” (megalomaniac in...

Collections of original poetry in the mainstream European tradition.

Deep Fields Out of the Dark Digging in Into the Fiery Darkness Passing Listening to Transience Seeing, Not Capturing The Meeting Pool Out Here After Long Concentration Beautiful, Shifting Light The Midnight Eye Sounds and Branches Neither One of Us Maker Emotions Move Longings No More Keeping It In Mind News-Time Nameless-River Falls Now The Rain Has Gone Three Poems of the Hills Memory Everything On Fire All the Forms of the World Now the Light is Shining Heart-Stopped Awake and Aware World of Dust The Fact Unforgiving Agenda The Visitor Tranquil Days Thin Air Sleek Birds, Desperate People In the Mountains I Feel Free In the Presence of Natural Beauty ‘The Mountains of themselves are Mountains’ This Side of Lethe Winnowing Freedom Line of Sight The Invisible One All Change Now Clearing Reclaim A Flow of Dream Fracture Ariel Interiority The Trees Are Honest Looking Outward, Seeing Valley Path at Night between Trees Birds of Thought It’s Shared Quiet, Diamond Bright Crisis! What Crisis? Tonight, I Dream of You Creating Space Beached He Leaves Us Behind Uncreated Space Br...

Twenty-Nine More Poems including Beatrice, The Void.

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...