On Being Human (C. S. Lewis Poem)
Angelic minds, they say, by simple intelligence Behold the Forms of nature. They discern Unerringly the Archtypes, all the verities ...
Angelic minds, they say, by simple intelligence Behold the Forms of nature. They discern Unerringly the Archtypes, all the verities ...
Oft have I seen at some cathedral door . A laborer, pausing in the dust and heat, . Lay down ...
Tempora labuntur, tacitisque senescimus annis, Et fugiunt freno non remorante dies. Ovid, Fastorum, Lib. vi. "O C?sar, we who are ...
She dwells by Great Kenhawa's side, In valleys green and cool; And all her hope and all her pride Are ...
(For Aline) When you shall die and to the sky Serenely, delicately go, Saint Peter, when he sees you there, ...
All winter the fire devoured everything -- tear-stained elegies, old letters, diaries, dead flowers. When April finally arrived, I opened ...
VAINLY wouldst thou, to gain a heart, Heap up a maiden's lap with gold; The joys of love thou must ...
Night fell over North Lebanon and snow was covering the villages surrounded by the Kadeesha Valley, giving the fields and ...
For Carl Solomon I I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves ...
America I've given you all and now I'm nothing. America two dollars and twentyseven cents January 17, 1956. I can't ...
She was impure, no longer chaste or so he thought; but trying to do the honorable thing, under the law, ...
So peaceful, so still she lies there, napping on our bed commandeering the sanctuary for her own devices but so ...
It sometimes happens that the woman you meet and fall in love with is of that strange Transylvanian people with ...
The west was getting out of gold, The breath of air had died of cold, When shoeing home across the ...
I am a little world made cunningly Of elements, and an angelic sprite; But black sin hath betrayed to endless ...
Serene, almost angelic, the lights of the city attend upon lumbering behemoths shrilly screeching displeasure; they say that nothing is ...
This is a day of happiness, sweet peace, And heavenly sunshine; upon which conven'd In full assembly fair, once more ...
My whole world is all you refuse: a black light, angelic and cold on the path to the orchard, fox-runs ...
A hotel in whose ledgers departures are more prominent than arrivals. With wet Koh-i-noors the October rain strokes what's left ...
When Peter Wanderwide was young He wandered everywhere he would: All that he approved was sung, And most of what ...
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
BY QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR OF 'WAT TYLER' 'A Daniel come to judgment! ...
I am poor brother Lippo, by your leave! You need not clap your torches to my face. Zooks, what's to ...
NO song nor dance I bring from yon great city, That queens it o'er our taste-the more's the pity: Tho' ...
I am too big. Too big by far. Pity me. My eyes bulge and hurt. They are my one great ...
Lo giorno se n'andava, e l'aere bruno toglieva li animai che sono in terra da le fatiche loro; e io ...
The day returns again, my natal day; What mix'd emotions with the Thought arise! Beloved friend, four years have pass'd ...
1.1 "What is the price of Experience? do men buy it for a song? 1.2 Or wisdom for a dance ...
To go home and wear shorts forever in the enormous paddocks, in that warm climate, adding a sweater when winter ...
Like the vain curlings of the watery maze, Which in smooth streams a sinking weight does raise, So Man, declining ...
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