The Hasteners (Nizar Qabbani Poems)
The last walls of shame fell,And we rejoiced…And we danced…And we were blessed with the signing of the peace of ...
The last walls of shame fell,And we rejoiced…And we danced…And we were blessed with the signing of the peace of ...
Oh! The snow, the beautiful snow, Filling the sky and the earth below, Over the housetops, over the street, Over the heads of ...
_Rose-colour_Rose Pink am I, the colour gleams and glows In many a flower; her lips, those tender doorsBy which, in time ...
Joy in rebel Plymouth town, in the spring of 'sixty-four,When the Albemarle down on the Yankee frigates bore,With the saucy ...
O sunny Sangamon! thy name to me, Soft-syllabled like some sweet melody, Familiar is since adolescent years As household phrases ringing in my ...
"Look on this picture, and on that."Tell me not of negro slavery, Of its shackles, stripes, and woes—Shackles stronger, stripes more ...
WHO remains in London,In the streets with me,Now that Spring is blowingWarm winds from the sea;Now that trees grow green ...
The shadows lay along broadway,'t was near the twilight-tide,and slowly there a lady fairwas walking in her pride.Alone walked she; ...
Searching an infinite Where, Probing a bottomless When, Dreamfully wandering, Ceaselessly pondering, What is the Wherefore of men: Bartering life for a There, Selling his soul ...
ACT III. A cell in the Wartburg Monastery. Enter PRIOR PEPPERCORN with the casket.PRIOR.So! Glittering shell where doubtless shines concealedAn ...
I 'T is the middle of night on the Greenfield farm And the creatures are huddled to keep them from ...
SCENE--London, a Bookseller's Shop. Enter Author, smiling and rubbing his Hands. AUTHOR. Well, Slider!--and how d'ye go on with my ...
Vocat aestus in umbram Nemesianus Es. IV. E. P. Ode pour l'?lection de son s?pulchre For three years, out of ...
ILMARINEN'S FRUITLESS WOOING.Ilmarinen, the magician,The eternal metal-artist,Lays aside the golden image,Beauteous maid of magic metals;Throws the harness on his courser,Binds ...
Babs Malone Now the squatters and the cockies, Shearers, trainers, and their jockeys Had gathered them together for a meeting ...
Ten Little Slackers Ten little slackers standing in a line, One went to U. S., then there were ...
Have I had this coffee shop long, Sir, dishing out coffee and tea?Ever since Big Ben was a wrist watch ...
Fire! Fire! Fire! the cry rang out on the night air,The roving winds caught it up, and the very heavens ...
The sun, which doth the greatest comfort bring To absent friends (because the self-same thing They know they see, however ...
The SailorI'd like to be a sailor - a sailor bold and bluff -Calling out, "Ship ahoy!" in manly tones ...
1630-1633Sick with the strife of tongues, the blustering hateOf frantic Party raving o'er the realm,Sonorous insincerities of debate,And jealous factions ...
If couples mated but for love; If women all were perfect cooks; If Hoosier authors wrote no books; ...
There's a bleak, black world without, And the rain falls fast;And the wind, with a whine and a shout, Blows ...
Wearily stretches the sand to the surge, and the surge to the cloudland;Wearily onward I ride, watching the water alone.Not ...
Sculptor of demons and of goddesses,I chisel also an eidolon of lovein ebony, adorning him with black rosesthat bear the ...
I heard an old farm-wife, Selling some barley, Mingle her life with life And the name "Charley". Saying, "The crop's ...
The sickness hot, a master quit, for fear,His house in town, and left one servant there;Ease him corrupted, and gave ...
I'd like to be a baker, and come when morning breaks,Calling out, "Beeay-ko!" (that's the sound he makes) -Riding in ...
One from the ends of the earth -- gifts at an open door -- Treason has much, but we, Mother, ...
I. Reference to a Passage in Plutarch's Life of Sulla The people buying and selling, consuming pleasures, talking in the ...
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