Booklet. Ten Prose Poems about Asia.

"...as humanity's blazing orb propels itself..."

1. Edge of the Sky 2. South China Sea 3. Phom Rak Khun 4.The Meh Khong River 5. Mahogany Shadows 6. Heart of Java 7. Sudharmi 8. Ode to Dati 9. Devil Moon 10. Dukun...

The epic poem of Aeneas of Troy, and the origins of Rome.

Book I The Trojans Reach Carthage Book II The Fall of Troy Book III The Trojans Sail for Italy Book IV The Tragedy of Dido Book V The Funeral Games Book VI The Visit to the Underworld Book VII War in Latium Book VIII The Site of Rome Book IX The Siege Book X The Relief and Battle Book XI Councils of War Book XII The Death of Turnus...

10 Poems for Educational Materials ESL.

"...as humanity's blazing orb propels..."

Edge of the SKY South China Sea Phom Rak Khun The Meh Khong River Mahogany Shadows Heart of Java Sudharmi Ode to Dati Devil Moon Dukun

The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth collects the entirety of Wordsworth's verse, presenting it more or less chronologically and, as carefully as possible, the way was intended to be heard by the author, complete with the variety of word emphases that have been either represented by scare quotes or italics....

“The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! The Sea that bares her bosom to the moon; The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; For this, for everything, we are out of tune; It moves us not.—Great God! I’d rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.”...

Thirty-seven poems in translation.

A Toast Futile Petition A Negress Distress Summer Sadness The Clown Chastised The Poem’s Gift L’Apres-midi d’un Faune Funeral Libation (At Gautier’s Tomb) The Tomb of Edgar Allan Poe The Tomb of Charles Baudelaire Tomb (Of Verlaine) Prose A Fan Another Fan Album Leaf Note Little Air Sonnet: ‘Quand l’ombre menaça…’ Sonnet: ‘Le vierge, le vivace…’ Sonnet: ‘Victorieusement fui le suicide…’ Sonnet: ‘Ses purs ongles très haut…’ Sonnet: ‘Pour votre chère morte, son ami…’ To The Sole Concern All Summarised The Soul… What Silk… To Introduce Myself… Crushed by…. My Books… Sigh Homage …Mysticis umbraculis Fan O so dear Sonnet Autumn Plaint Sea Breeze Index of First Lines...

A selection of poems from Early France. Including translations of poems by Marie de France, Arnaut Daniel, Bertran de Born, Thibaut IV Roi de Navarre, Guillaume de Machaut, Eustace Deschamps, Christine de Pisan, and Charles d'Orléans....

Marie de France (Late 12th Century) The Lay of the Honeysuckle Arnaut Daniel (Late 12th Century) I am the one that knows the pain that flows When the pale leaves descend Anonymous Aubes (12th or 13th century) When I see the light of day appear, Between my true love and me, Bertran de Born (c1140-before1215) Lady, since you care not at all Gace Brulé (c1159-c1212) Chanson d’Amour Le Châtelain de Coucy (Guy d.1203) Chanson d’Amour Anonymous Reverdies (12th or 13th Century) In April at Easter Tide Would it please you then if I Guillaume de Loris (fl c. 1240) From: Le Roman de la Rose (First Part) Thibaut IV De Champagne, Roi De Navarre (1201-1252) I can’t prevent myself from singing, ‘Mercy, my lady! One thing I ask you, Love I have served, for such length of time Colin Muset (Mid-13th Century) Sir Count, I’ve been fiddling Guillaume de Machaut (c1300-1377) Of all the fruits and all the flowers The stars could no more be counted by you, I’d rather languish in a strange country, If I love you with true faithful courage If your pride will not humble itself to me Eustace Deschamps (1346-1407) If I travelled...

First produced in 472 BC, it is the oldest surviving play in the history of theatre. It dramatises the Persian response to news of their military defeat at the Battle of Salamis (480 BC), which was a decisive episode in the Greco–Persian Wars; as such, the play is also notable for being the only extant Greek tragedy that is based on contemporary events....

A complete collection of the poems and poetic fragments of the great English language stylist and Jesuit priest, Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889). Volume 3 of The Reader's Library Series. ISBN: 978-1-932023-45-9. https://www.facebook.com/williamralpheditions...

Spring and Fall to a young child   Márgarét, áre you gríeving Over Goldengrove unleaving? Leáves, líke the things of man, you With your fresh thoughts care for, can you? Áh! ás the heart grows older It will come to such sights colder By and by, nor spare a sigh Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie; And yet you wíll weep and know why. Now no matter, child, the name: Sórrow’s spríngs áre the same. Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed What heart heard of, ghost guessed: It ís the blight man was born for, It is Margaret you mourn for....

Contents Introduction Author’s Preface The Wreck of the Deutschland Penmaen Pool The Silver Jubilee God’s Grandeur The Starlight Night Spring The Lantern out of Doors The Sea and the Skylark The Windhover Pied Beauty Hurrahing in Harvest The Caged Skylark In the Valley of the Elwy The Loss of the Eurydice The May Magnificat Binsey Poplars Duns Scotus’s Oxford Henry Purcell Peace The Bugler’s First Communion Morning Midday and Evening Sacrifice Andromeda The Candle Indoors The Handsome Heart At the Wedding March Felix Randal Brothers Spring and Fall Inversnaid "As Kingfishers Catch Fire, Dragonflies Draw Flame" Ribblesdale The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo The Blessed Virgin Compared to the Air We Breathe To What Serves Mortal Beauty? Spelt from Sibyl’s Leaves (The Soldier) (Carrion Comfort) "No Worst There Is None Pitched Past Pitch of Grief" "To Seem the Stranger Lies My Lot My Life" "I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark Not Day" "Patience Hard Thing the Hard Thing But to Pray" "My Own Heart Let Me More Have Pity on Let" Tom’s Garland Harry Ploughman That Nature Is a Heraclitean Fi...

В данном сборнике представлены произведения, написанные Александром Листенгортом в период с осени-2008 по май 2013 года. Здесь читатель может наблюдать круговорот различных тем, вопросов и ответов, воплощенных в стихотворениях. Эти СтихоТворения благословляют и наполняют особой энергией, которая знакома каждому живому существу, что несёт в себе мир, вечность, божественное присутствие и чудо жизни во всех её проявлениях. Поиски смысла жизни и наполнение жизни этим смыслом, вечные вопросы бытия, на которые автор осмеливается дать свои ответы, темы любви и влюбленности, родины, природы, времени, того, что принято называть Богом – всё это находит своё отражение в стихотворениях автора. Но основными здесь являются вопросы просветления и духовного пробуждения человеческого существа, обретения счастья, благополучия и понимания, всего, что на жизненном пути упорно ищет каждый из нас, и чего никто и никогда, по мнению автора, не терял на самом деле, а только скрыл на время за тонкой пеленой завесы, являющейся частью единого замысла, условием данной игры. Сегодня в наших руках есть полноценная, благословенная возможность обрести нужную нам ис...

ОТКРОЙТЕ ДЛЯ СЕБЯ НОВЫЙ (ХОРОШО ЗАБЫТЫЙ) МИР: МИР СОБСТВЕННОГО Я. ЭНЕРГИЮ, ЖИВУЩУЮ ВО ВСЁМ. БОЖЕСТВЕННУЮ МЫСЛЬ, ВЕЧНЫМ ПРОВОДНИКОМ КОТОРОЙ ВЫ ЯВЛЯЕТЕСЬ. ...

МАЙ 2013 Струится Послание Отцвела безумная пора Как много хочется сказать… Золотое лето Небесные очи цвета морской волны… Девочка, Салам! Я влюбился в Украину У каждого есть вечные любовники Спасибо тебе, дорогая Неся с Собой Себя Дорога в Небеса АПРЕЛЬ 2013 Когда настанет время уходить… Ты мне помаши, родная… У каждого из нас – особое призванье Награда каждому даётся… Большая прелесть бытия Какая милая пора нам красит вечер… Вертушка бытия Что такое Еврей (מהו יהודי) Темно-синий туман Мелех Хаолям (מלך העולם) Целуем вас перед сном… Белое олово звёзд Искатель истинной любви У каждого из вас я наблюдаю… Как важно быть среди людей МАРТ 2013 Мило и божественно Небо Москвы Садись со мной в карету Божественно Творение Мира и Земли Немного Услады ФЕВРАЛЬ 2013 Свет израильской земли Объединитесь на века! Мне очень нравятся моменты… Какая разница, откуда ты и кто ты Крылом накроет ангел своё чадо Растаял сонный смог тумана Давайте строить, мыслить, делать, думать Блаженный свет божественной долины Прекрасным диким ливнем зацвела… О, Высший Свет… Пускай сияет небо синевой Нужно быть немного сума...

In this edition are presented the works by Alex Listengort, written in a period of time from autumn-2008 to may 2013. Here the reader may see a circulation of different topics, of questions and answers, embodied in Poems. These Pieces of Arts do Bless and Fill Up with a Special Energy that is familiar to every living creature, and that brings peace, eternity, divine presence and Miracle of life in all its forms. Searches for a meaning of life and its integrating into the life itself, eternal existencional questions, for which the author dares to give an answer in his poems. Themes of love and beguines, motherland, nature, time and something they call the God: all that finds its reflections in authors’ poems, but the main here are the questions of enlightenment, spiritual awakening of a human being, gaining happiness, abundance and awareness: of everything, that each of us insists to find on the line, of everything, that, as author says, no one had ever really lost, and what Is just temporarily hidden under a tricky veil, that is a part of a global plan, that is a special condition of this Game. Today in our hands we all keep a total...

DISCOVER A NEW (WELL FORGOTTEN) WORLD: A WORLD OF YOURSELF. AN ENERGY, LIVING IN EVERYTHING. A DIVINE CHARGE, OF WHICH YOU ARE AN ETERNAL GUIDE

OCEAN OF DIVINITY Ozean der Göttlichkeit אוקיינוס של אלוהות Океан Божественности Աստվածայնության Օկվիանը Océano de la Divinidad MAY 2013 A Message Flows It faded blossom of that crazy time I would like to tell so much Golden summer Celestial eyes colored the waves of sea… Hey there, Girl… Salam! Thank you, dear Tan mucho quiero yo decir… The All-Time Nature Los ojos celestes de color de undubre A Road to Heaven APRIL 2013 When it comes the Time to Go… Wave in farewell, my dear… Each of us remain a special mission… Everyone gets a reward… La Niebla Pavonada A big amenity of being What is a Jew (מהו יהודי) Mazarin Mist Melekh Ha’Olam (מלך העולם) Kissing you last thing at night… Existencional Spin של אלוהים נוכחות ברוך מבורך A Searcher for True Love In everyone of you I am observing… Cuando se llegará el tiempo a ir... It is important such to be among the people… MARCH 2013 Es Kommt das Wahrheit, Divinidad canción Moscow Sky Sit in Carriage alongside Me Creation is Divine A bit of Delight ¡Qué bueno ser un espectador de esta noche! Little Boxes of the Mind Empieza la Noche There are ...

An extensive selection of his major poems.

‘One time more, my love, the net of light extinguishes’ The Wide Ocean ‘Unclothed, you are true, like one of your hands’ Fable of the Mermaid and the Drunks ‘The light that climbs from your feet to your hair,’ ‘Leave me a place underground,’ ‘I do not love you as if you were brine-rose, topaz,’ ‘Lost in the woods I snapped off a dark branch’ ‘March days return with their covert light’ Poetry ‘Who ever desired each other as we do?’ Enigmas Ode to a Naked Beauty ‘In the wave-strike over unquiet stones’ ‘I can write the saddest lines tonight’ ‘Leaning into the afternoon’ The Eighth of September ‘Perhaps not to be is to be without your being.’ ‘Carnal apple, Woman filled, burning moon,’ ‘The tree is here, still, in pure stone’ Your hands Enigma with Flower ‘I like you calm, as if you were absent’ ‘Tie your heart at night to mine, love,’ ‘You will recall the gorge of capricious waters’ ‘Oh love, oh mad light-beam, threat of violet’ ‘For you to hear me....’ El Lago de los Cisnes ‘From the archipelago you have hair of larch fibres,’ ‘The little girl made of timber didn’t arrive by walking:’ Walking Around ‘No...

Selected poems by Salvatore Quasimodo.

Wind at Tindari Street in Agrigentum Nostalgia and Regret Lament for the South Mirror On the Island Metamorphoses in the Urn of the Saint ‘Already the rain is with us’ The Submerged Oboe Now Autumn Enemy of Death Refuge of Nocturnal Birds The Sea Still Sounds Imitation Of Joy Horses of Volcanoes And The Moon Alleyway Without Memory Of Death Grown Dark And Tall The Birth Of Song Autumn Freshness Of Rivers In Sleep Grant Me My Day Epitaph for Bice Donetti A Burial Sings in Me Almost A Madrigal Poetry Of Love Dialogue The Magpie Mocks Summer Man of My Time Auschwitz Suddenly It’s Evening To My Father...

Selected Poems by Eugenio Montale.

I Recall Your Smile To Rest In The Shade Evil, I’ve Often Encountered The Hope Even Of Seeing You Again Happiness Is Achieved Walking Thus To Rest In The Shade Perhaps One Morning Walking Day And Night The House By The Sea Another Effect Of The Moon Fresh Stanzas Near Vienna The Well Bagni di Lucca The Repertoire Dora Markus The Shadow Of The Magnolia Hitlerian Spring News From Mount Amiata Little Testament Index of First Lines...

A Selection of Poems from his complete works, in verse translation, including Morphine, Der Scheidende, Der Asra, and lyrics from the Buch der Lieder.

Buch Der Lieder: Lyrisches Intermezzo: ‘Ein Fichtenbaum’ Buch Der Lieder: Lyrisches Intermezzo: ‘Es liegt der heisse Sommer’ Buch Der Lieder: Lyrisches Intermezzo: ‘Ich glaub nicht an den Himmel’ Buch Der Lieder: Lyrisches Intermezzo: ‘Ich kann es nicht vergessen’ Buch Der Lieder: Die Heimkehr: ‘Ich weiss nicht, was soll es bedeuten’ Buch Der Lieder: Die Heimkehr: ‘Als ich, auf der Reise’ Buch Der Lieder: Die Heimkehr: ‘Still ist die Nacht’ Buch Der Lieder: Die Heimkehr: ‘Sie liebten sich beide’ Buch Der Lieder: Die Heimkehr: ‘Mein Kind, wir waren Kinder’ Buch Der Lieder: Die Heimkehr: ‘Der Tod, das ist’ Neue Gedichte: Neuer Frühling: ‘Unterm weissen Baume’ Neue Gedichte: Neuer Frühling: ‘Es war ein alter König’ Neue Gedichte: Verscheidene: ‘Wenn ich, beseligt’ Neue Gedichte: In Der Fremde: ‘Ich hatte einst’ Neue Gedichte: Verscheidene: Romanzen: ‘Ein Weib’ Neue Gedichte: Verscheidene: Romanzen: ‘Die Unbekannte’ Neue Gedichte: Zur Ollea: ‘Altes Kaminstück’ Romanzero: Erstes Buch: Historien: ‘Der Asra’ Romanzero: Zweites Buch: Lamentationen: Gedächtnisfeier’ Gedichte 1853 Und 1854: Zum Lazarus: ‘Einst sah ich viele...

Collections of original poetry in the mainstream European tradition.

Wayfaring Parting A Dream Of The Sea Passage The Perfect Hour Shower Navigation Beyond In Which We Shine How Near New Muse Being Not Metaphor Without Raging Troubling The River-Bend Leavings The Mind-Muse Not Performance The In-Itself Outside Itself Anonymous Long After Nowhere To Flee Substance And The Void One Long Ridge Poetry Can Do Didactic Too In the Valley Why Be Lonely? Black Flowers Diamond Eye They See Through and Past You Terrestrial The Wall Gift Of The Ring-Makers The Error The Happy Traveller Desperations Fragments of Crystal White Air Passing Wasp Est-il Paradis? Be Free After The Climb Mist In The Meadow Ours To Do Slope By The River Light In The Air Grass Is An Institution Possibility The Burning Man Signs in the Stone Nothing Else Will Green Ways Listening to the Movement The Long Soft Sighing of the Tide The Lark in Eternity, the Hawk in Time Strange Self Almost a Clue Wind in the Poplar Naming the Names Lighter Mouth The Changelings Months Of Grace Mind What Is Solid Bright, You Rise Evening Hour Over-World Self Aside Thoughts In The Shade Forb...

Collections of original poetry in the mainstream European tradition.

I: The Depths Outside Goldcrest Fences Civilisation Doorway No Silence Un-Confessional Deer Inattention City Meditation Absence All Kinds Hill-Fort Whitethorn Earth-Flame That Strain, That Churning Un-Managed Alone Find Silence Going Owl-Cries II: The Citadel of Mind Ancestral Mapping Wilderness As Selves River Things The More And Less Mind-Clothes Every Child Intense Denial Hawk in Winter Abyss To Know Is Not To Feel Patience Not As It Seems Candle Transformation Moment Beauty Yearning III: The Sacred House Going Beyond Give After Them Open, More Open Life Is Coming From Cyllene Sacred House Tangles Cycle Few Sea Voices Not For Ever Others’ Hands Face to Face Over and Under Pupa Muse Mouth Refuge Involution Poetry For those IV: Values An Die Geliebte Values of Light Dark-Light Once Only Aspire Falling Back Blade of Tao Leaves Mercy Flute Falling Time Blind Truth Deneb, Great Star Deepening She Scorpius Work It Meta-Fear Naming Moon-Fog Index Of First Lines...

Sixty poems of the Troubadours translated from the Occitan. The translations are close to the originals in content, rhyme-scheme and rhythm. Included are translations of poems by Guillaume de Poitiers, Jaufre Rudel, Beatritz de Dia, Bernart de Ventadorn, Arnaut Daniel, Peire Vidal, Bertran de Born, Raimbaut de Vaqueiras, Guillem de Cabestan, Sordello, and others....

Translator’s Introduction Anonymous (10th Century) Phebi claro nondum orto iubare With pale Phoebus, in the clear east, not yet bright, Guillaume de Poitiers (1071-1127) Ab la dolchor del temps novel Out of the sweetness of the spring, Farai un vers de dreyt nien I’ve made a song devoid of sense: Pus vezem de novelh florir Since we see, fresh flowers blowing Mout jauzens me prenc en amar Great the joy that I take in love, Farai chansoneta nueva I’ll make a little song that’s new, Pos de chantar m’es pres talentz Since my mood urges me to sing Jaufre Rudel (d.c.1148) Lanquan li jorn son lonc e may When the days are long, in May, Quan lo rius de la fontana When the sweet fountain’s stream No sap chanter qui so no di No one can sing where no melody is, Marcabru (fl. 1130-1150) A la fontana del vergier In an orchard down by the stream, Cercamon (fl. c.1137-1152) Quant l’aura doussa s’amarzis When the sweet air turns bitter, Rigaut de Berbezilh (fl.1140-1163) Si tuit li dol e·lh plor e·lh marrimen If all the grief and woe and bitterness Bernart de Ventadorn (fl. 1145-1175) Can vei la lauzeta mover When ...

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

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...

"Anthology of the Paradoxist Literary Movement" is a collection of multicultural essays about the Paradoxist Literary Movement in the world, edited by Jean-Michel Levenard, Ion Rotaru, Arnold Skemer....

I left the totalitarianism and emigrated to the united states for the freedom: Therefore, don't force any literary rules on me! Or, if you do, I'll certainly encroach upon them. I'm not a poet, that's why I write poetry. I'm an anti-poet or non-poet. I thus came to America to re-build the statue of Liberty of the Verse, delivered from the tyranny of the classic and its dogma. I allowed any boldness, anti-literature and its literature flexible forms fixed, or the live face of the death! style of the non-style, poems without verse (because poems don't mean words), dumb poems with loud voice, poems without poems (because the notion of "poem" doesn't match any definition found in dictionaries or encyclopedias)-poems which exist by their absence, after-war literature: pages and pages bombed by filthiness, triteness, and non- poetically, paralinguistic verse (only!): graphics, lyrical portraits, drawings, drafts, non-words and non-sentence poems very upset free verse and trivial hermetic verse intelligible unintelligible language, unsolved and open problems of mathematics like very nice poems of the spirit-we must scientificize the art ...

In this book I have tried to express my feelings, desires, passions and emotions on topics very rarely discussed in society. In the past two years I have seen new faces of our world, the faces generally neglected by us; and in this book I have recorded my thoughts on all such topics....

Call Upon Hope I cast a net, into the sea, I cast a net to catch some dreams; The sea wouldn’t let me free, So I cast a net to catch some dreams; I tried to grasp, the light of the sun, I tried to shine, like the moon; Although the moon, lies in heaven, I tried to shine, like the moon; The sun set me ablaze, And the moon, was nothing but dust; I was looked upon, with an envious gaze, Borne by the sons of lust; When nations left my side, And hate was given birth; I spread my arms wide, And I conquered the earth; Now I lift my head with pride, And each heart is bound by my rope; Nations walk by my side, After all I am Hope....

Title Page Copyright Page Foreword Preface 1.In The Arms of Darkness 2.The Lives I Have Lived 3.What A Saint Once Wrote 4.Calls of The Past 5.Fight for Freedom 6.The Battle Of Stalingrad 7.The Road Of Life 8.The New Age 9.Reign Of Faith 10.Luck 11.A Broken Heart 12.The Eyes 13.A Salute To Love 14.Call Upon Hope 15.New Beginnings 16.The Thought Of Hell 17.A Shoulder To Lean 18.Think Of Winter 19.The Truth 20.The Heart Of The Wicked 21.My Conscience 22.Ballad Of The Poor 23.The Rhyme Of Time 24.The Song Of The World 25.Knowledge of virtue 26.The Power Of Song 27.A Message To Myself 28.Happy Birthday Dad 29.Losses 30.Fly Away 31.Patience 32.What The Heart Wants 33.Regret 34.Ignorance 35.A Gift From Death 36.To Mother Nature 37.The Real Enemy 38.A Lesson From Life 39.Words Of Praise 40.The End Of Spring Back Cover...

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

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...

George Herbert, 1593 – 1633, was a British poet whose work has become increasing significant in the English language poetic. Influenced greatly by the metaphysical conceits of John Donne, Herbert applied the ideas of extended and imaginative metaphors infused with a highly precise language to create musical lyrics—Herbert had a great love and knowledge of music—that were entirely devoted to his Christian beliefs. While politically ambitious as a young man, Herbert fully embraced his faith and became a priest in 1630. Herbert’s poetry was entirely unpublished during his lifetime, though his project for creating a body of lyrics organized around the central metaphor of man’s soul as a “temple” was both deliberate and fully realized before his death. Other lyrics and translations—all of varying authenticity—have surfaced over the years and are included after the full presentation of THE TEMPLE, which is preserved here as much as possible as it was printed in the 17th century keeping with the spelling, grammar, and typesetting of the time. Herbert’s lyrics hold up remarkably well in an era of constant self-examination and are full of a ...

The Pulley When God at first made Man, Having a glasse of blessings standing by; Let us (said he) poure on him all we can: Let the worlds riches, which dispersed lie, Contract into a span. So strength first made a way; Then beautie flow’d, then wisdome, honour, pleasure: When almost all was out, God made a stay, Perceiving that alone of all his treasure Rest in the bottome lay. For if I should (said he) Bestow this jewell also on my creature, He would adore my gifts in stead of me, And rest in Nature, not the God of Nature: So both should losers be. Yet let him keep the rest, But keep them with repining restlesnesse: Let him be rich and wearie, that at least, If goodnesse leade him not, yet wearinesse May tosse him to my breast....

Introduction THE TEMPLE Dedication THE CHURCH-PORCH Perirrhanterium Superliminare THE CHURCH The Altar The Sacrifice The Thanksgiving The Reprisall The Agonie The Sinner Good Friday Redemption Sepulchre Easter Easter-Wings (I) Easter-Wings (II) Holy Baptisme (I) Holy Baptisme (II) Nature Sinne (I) Affliction (I) Repentance Faith Prayer (I) The Holy Communion Antiphon (I) Love (I) Love (II) The Temper (I) The Temper (II) Jordan (I) Employment (I) The Holy Scriptures (I) The Holy Scriptures (II) Whitsunday Grace Praise (I) Affliction (II) Mattens Sinne (II) Even-Song (I) Church-Monuments Church-Musick Church-Lock and Key The Church-Floore The Windows Trinitie-Sunday Content The Quidditie Humilitie Frailtie Constancie Affliction (III) The Starre Sunday Avarice Ana- {MARY/ARMY} -gram To All Angels and Saints Employment (II) Deniall Christmas Ungratefulnesse Sighs and Grones The World Colossians 3:3 - Our Life Is Hid with Christ in God... Vanitie (I) Lent Vertue The Pearl - Matthew 13 Affliction (IV) Man Antiphon (II) Unkindnesse Life Submission Justice (I) Ch...

The Satires. Incisive social analysis from the age of Hadrian.

Satire I A Justification for Satire Satire II Effeminate Rome Satire III Fleeing Rome Satire IV Mock-Epic Satire V Patron and Client Satire VI Don’t Marry Satire VII Patronage Satire VIII Rely On Your Own Worth Satire IX Patrons Again: A Dialogue Satire X The Vanity of Human Wishes Satire XI An Invitation to Dinner Satire XII Friendship Satire XIII Mock Consolation Satire XIV Bad Parenting Satire XV Compassion, Not Hatred Satire XVI The Military life (Incomplete Text)...

A complete collection of the poetry of Edgar Allan Poe. Poe was born on January 19th in Boston, Massachusetts in 1809, and died in his adopted home of Baltimore, Maryland on October 7th, 1849, making him the first American writer in this series. The critical estimation of Poe’s work has increased dramatically over the course of my lifetime, which has been satisfying to observe, as he was for me—as I believe for so many lovers of literature—an early favorite, particularly because of his verse, which is rich with sonic texture and gothic subject matter: insanity, darkness, ghosts, death, etc. It is also quite manageable to read in its entirety at 75 poems depending on how many of those of questionable authorship or in various stages of completion one is willing to include in the official oeuvre. (In fact, it has been some time since I’ve heard the old familiar slight that his popularity in France during the 19th century was perhaps due to his writing gaining something of substance from Charles Baudelaire’s translations.) While perhaps not quite as dramatically prescient in new utterance, form or philosophical depth as Walt Whitman ...

Annabel Lee It was many and many a year ago,     In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know     By the name of Annabel Lee;— And this maiden she lived with no other thought     Than to love and be loved by me. She was a child and I was a child,     In this kingdom by the sea, But we loved with a love that was more than love—     I and my Annabel Lee— With a love that the wingéd seraphs of Heaven     Coveted her and me. And this was the reason that, long ago,     In this kingdom by the sea, A wind blew out of a cloud by night     Chilling my Annabel Lee; So that her highborn kinsmen came     And bore her away from me, To shut her up in a sepulchre     In this kingdom by the sea. The angels, not half so happy in Heaven,     Went envying her and me:— Yes!—that was the reason (as all men know,     In this kingdom by the sea) That the wind came out of the cloud, chilling     And killing my Annabel Lee. But our love it was stronger by far than the love     Of those who were older than we—     Of many far wiser than we— And neither the angels in Heaven above,     Nor the de...

Contents Introduction Poetry Oh, Tempora! Oh, Mores! To Margaret To Octavia Tamerlane Song (I Saw Thee on Thy Bridal Day...) Dreams Spirits of the Dead Evening Star Imitation Stanzas (In Youth I Have Known One...) A Dream "The Happiest Day—The Happiest Hour" The Lake: To——— To——— (I Heed Not That My Earthly Lot...) Hymn to Aristogeiton and Harmodius Sonnet: To Science Al Aaraaf Romance To——— (Should My Early Life Seem...) To——— (The Bowers Whereat, in Dreams, I See...) To the River——— Fairy Land Alone To Isaac Lea Elizabeth Acrostic Lines on Joe Locke Introduction Fairy Land II To Helen (Helen, Thy Beauty Is to Me...) Israfel The Sleeper The Valley of Unrest The City in the Sea A Pæn To One in Paradise Hymn An Enigma Serenade To——— (Sleep On, Sleep On, Another Hour...) The Coliseum Fanny To Frances S. Osgood To F——— To Mary May Queen Ode Bridal Ballad Sonnet: To Zante The Haunted Palace Sonnet: Silence The Conqueror Worm Lenore Dream-Land Impromptu: To Kate Carol Eulalie Epigram for Wall Street The Raven To——— (I Would Not Lord It O’er Thy Heart...) The Divine Right ...

The complete poems of Tibullus and of Sulpicia, the only known woman whose writings are preserved to this day.

Tibullus Book I: Delia I. The True Life II. A Plea to Delia III. Illness In Phaecia IV The Love of Boys V The Separation VI Faithlessness VII Messalla’s Triumph VIII Marathus In Love With Pholoe IX Treacherous Love X Make Peace Not War Tibullus Book II: Nemesis I The Country Festival (The Ambarvalia) II Cornutus’s Birthday III Nemesis In The Country IV Her Greed V Messalinus As Custodian of the Sybilline Books VI Love’s Compulsion Sulpicia’s Garland I Sulpicia on the First of March II Cerinthus Hunting III A Prayer For Sulpicia In Her Illness IV Cerinthus’s Birthday V Sulpicia’s Birthday Sulpicia’s Verses I Love Proclaimed II The Hateful Journey III The Journey Abandoned IV Her Reproach V In Sickness VI Her Apology Index of First Lines...

Seventy-three poems in translation.

Resignation Nevermore After Three Years Wish Lassitude My Familiar Dream Parisian Sketch Twilight of a Mystical Evening Dusk The Nightingale Woman And Cat Song Of The Artless Ones Serenade Claire De LunePantomime Out Walking The Innocents Her Retinue The Sea-Shells Puppets Cythera Aboard The Faun Mandoline To Clymène Columbine Cupid Overthrown Muted Sentimental Conversation In Her Dress…. Before You Leave, Pale… The Moon, White… A Saint In His Aureole…. Home, The Lamp’s Circumscribed Glow I Was Almost Afraid…. The Noise From Bars…. Is It Not So?…. It’s Languorous Ecstasy It Rains In My Heart… You See We Need… The Piano Kissed… Oh Sad, Sad… Through Interminable Land… The Shadow of Trees… Walcourt Charleroi Brussels: Wooden Horses Mechelen I See You, Still… Green Spleen A Poor Young Shepherd Streets – Dansons La Gigue! Streets – O La Rivière Dans La Rue! Beauty Of Women…. No. It was Gallican…. Hear The Sweetest Song…. I Came, Calm, An Orphan…. The Sky’s Above The Roof…. Sadness, The Bodily Weariness… Pierrot Poetic Art Languor Circumspection To Madame X… Parsifal Evening...

A collection of the author's original poetry centered around the themes of spiritual search and individual identity in the modern world.

Loose, Shifting Ghost Incantation Soul’s Mirror Trying To Make It Behind the Words Reflection No One Mind and Its Light Babel’s Tower Core Remains Word The Book Grave Goods Stranger You Build the Tower Birthing Your Image The Singing Here The Name River We Can Listen Writing Me I Entered Lances The Kingdom of Nothing Folded Rock In-form Me What We Have Wing of an Eyelid Breaking Down Weighing Benedico Poetry Not Till I Touch You Blue Eyes of The Sea Daedalian The Poem City The Net The Voice If I Had Known Where Are The Leaves? Orpheus Looking Back At Earth Index of First Lines...

Collections of original poetry in the mainstream European tradition.

Vision Ambiguity Of The Idea The Sunflower And The Heliotrope Dawn Island Of Perception The Feeling Of A Feeling Gulf The Winds Fandango Of Time Pomegranate Without You, In You Gift Of The Already Given Communication Is A Purpose Of Meaning The Arbitrary Is Not Art The Bronze-Feathered Bird No Emperor No Platonic Spaces Very Old Are The Stars The Force A Basin Filled With Water Pike Is Pike And Not More Everywhere, Nowhere Identity Retrieved From The Sea The Face Leavings Amethyst, Argent, Sable Nature’s Order, Not Our Order Mind Is A Passion Of Its Own Creation Beyond Imagination No Wilful Obscurity Reality Is Imagination’s Mirror. More Serious Or Less? No Way For All Septet Immortality Is Deceptive Another Meaning Of The Sun Body Cooling, Your Mind Goes Cold? No One Watching Seal States Of Awakening In Louisiana Music And Meaning Products Of Motley Selection Courts Of The Night Keep It Real Its Movement Is The Drama In The Mind At The Full Far Enough, High Enough, To Turn Back Woman The Pillar And The Flame Netsuke Unaccompanied Sonata The Blue-Flowered Weed The Age Of Empathy Th...

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

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...

A selection of his poetry including early poems, Les Illuminations and Une Saison En Enfer both complete, and an extract from the 'Voyant' Letter.

First Evening.........................6 Sensation..........................8 The Blacksmith........................9 Sun and Flesh........................17 Ophelia..........................23 Ballad of the Hanged .....................26 Romance ..........................28 Eighteen Seventy ......................30 Rage of The Caesars .....................31 The Famous Victory of Saarbrucken...............32 A Winter Dream.......................33 Evil............................34 My Bohemia: A Fantasy....................35 At The Green Inn ......................36 The Sly Girl.........................37 The Sleeper in the Valley...................38 Evening Prayer.......................39 My Little Lovers .......................40 Poets at Seven Years.....................42 The Stolen Heart .......................45 The Parisian Orgy, or Paris Repeopled ..............46 Jeanne-Marie’s Hands.....................49 The Sisters of Charity .....................52 First Communions......................54 What One Says to the Poet on the Subject of Flowers ........60 The Seekers of Lice .....................66 ...

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....

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?...

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 & ...

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...

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....

“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...

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...

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...

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...

Walt Whitman (1819-1892) is widely considered to be the greatest and most influential of all American poets. The first edition of LEAVES OF GRASS, his sole book 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 endeavors to recreate that debut edition as much as an e-book’s virtual typesetting will allow....

I celebrate myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.   I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease . . . . observing a spear of summer grass.   Houses and rooms are full of perfumes . . . . the shelves are crowded with perfumes, I breathe the fragrance myself, and know it and like it, The distillation would intoxicate me also, but I shall not let it.   The atmosphere is not a perfume . . . . it has no taste of the distillation . . . . it is odorless, It is for my mouth forever . . . . I am in love with it, I will go to the bank by the wood and become undisguised and naked, I am mad for it to be in contact with me.   The smoke of my own breath, Echos, ripples, and buzzed whispers . . . . loveroot, silkthread, crotch and vine, My respiration and inspiration . . . . the beating of my heart . . . . the passing of blood and air through my lungs, “The sniff of green leaves and dry leaves, and of the shore and darkcolored sea-rocks, and of hay in the barn, The sound of the belched words of my voice . . . . words loosed to the eddies of the wind, A fe...

Contents Introduction "Frontispiece" "Letter from Ralph Waldo Emerson" "Original Title Page" "Entered according to Act of Congress..." "Preface" "Song of Myself" "A Song for Occupations" "To Think of Time" "The Sleepers" "I Sing the Body Electric" "Faces" "Song of the Answerer" "Europe the 72d and 73d Years of These States" "A Boston Ballad" "There Was a Child Went Forth" "Who Learns My Lesson Complete" "Great Are the Myths" About the Editor Also by William Ralph Press...

The Song of Songs [of Solomon] (שִׁיר הַשִּׁירִים Šîr haŠîrîm, ᾎσμα ᾎσμάτων Aisma Aismatōn, Cantĭcum Canticōrum) is a poetic courtship that moves from enchantment to consummation. Devoid of religiosity, it has traditionally been understood as metaphor for the relationship of the soul with the Divine – of God with Israel – of Christ with the Church – of Christ with the human soul – or humanistically, as a metaphor for psychological integrity....

The young man: He replied: “Where I go you know, our love will lead my queen’s feet, to where paradise overflows – in plenty we’ll be replete. For you my mistress are to men as mare to noble stallion, hair bejewels your neck as a mane, bridled by golden garland.” The young woman: And thus sparked, the lady replied: “From scent you sense my presence and at the couch where you recline it moulds your manly essence. Nesting all night my breasts between like bunchéd blooms of henna ’midst verdant vines kissed by sea’s sheen you’re more to me than all men are.” ...

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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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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

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...

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!...

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...

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: _________...