Crystal (Paul Celan Poem)
not on my lips look for your mouth, not in front of the gate for the stranger, not in the ...
not on my lips look for your mouth, not in front of the gate for the stranger, not in the ...
Where lies the land to which the ship would go? Far, far ahead, is all her seamen know. And where ...
cold nights on the farm, a sock-shod stove-warmed flatiron slid under the covers, mornings a damascene- sealed bizarrerie of fernwork ...
Budger of history Brake of time You Bomb Toy of universe Grandest of all snatched sky I cannot hate you ...
It's coming through a hole in the air, from those nights in Tiananmen Square. It's coming from the feel that ...
They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom For trying to change the system from within I'm coming now, I'm ...
Ere on my bed my limbs I lay, It hath not been my use to pray With moving lips or ...
Come queen of months in company Wi all thy merry minstrelsy The restless cuckoo absent long And twittering swallows chimney ...
Tonight the moon is a cracker, with a bite out of it floating in the night, and in a week ...
Poetry, I found you where at last they chained and bound you; with devices all around you to torture and ...
amidst swirling wine and flickers of silver guests quote Dante, Brecht, Kant and each other. I wait in the hall ...
I watched the winter light die from the bridge, the sky a sinking empire's battleship, ice floes' jagged edges clink ...
Nothing grows except the grass. Nothing leaps into sight except some stone and what the stone contains and protects. Here, ...
The angel of self-discipline, her guardian Since she first knew and had to go away From home that spring to ...
Omaha, Nebraska They do not sleep nights but stand between rows of glowing corn and cabbages grown on acres past ...
Love, indeed thy strength is mighty Thus, alone, such strife to bear -- Three 'gainst one, and never ceasing -- ...
That summer sun, whose genial glow Now cheers my drooping spirit so Must cold and distant be, And only light ...
'O cast away your sorrow; -- A while, at least, be gay! If grief must come tomorrow, At least, be ...
Jan 7th A dreadful darkness closes in On my bewildered mind; O let me suffer and not sin, Be tortured ...
Don't fear death in earthly travels. Don't fear enemies or friends. Just listen to the words of prayers, To pass ...
THE human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, ...
SOME have won a wild delight, By daring wilder sorrow; Could I gain thy love to-night, I'd hazard death to-morrow. ...
That wind I used to hear it swelling With joy divinely deep You might have seen my hot tears welling ...
The winter wind is loud and wild, Come close to me, my darling child; Forsake thy books, and mateless play; ...
Come, walk with me, There's only thee To bless my spirit now - We used to love on winter nights ...
The Day that Youth had died, There came to his grave-side, In decent mourning, from the country's ends, Those scatter'd ...
The day that YOUTH had died, There came to his grave-side, In decent mourning, from the country's ends, Those scatter'd ...
The boat ploughed on. Now Alcatraz was past And all the grey waves flamed to red again At the dead ...
O SHADOWY Beauty mine, when thou shalt sleep In the deep heart of a black marble tomb; When thou for ...
O LOGAN, sweetly didst thou glide, That day I was my Willie's bride, And years sin syne hae o'er us ...
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