To Her Portrait (Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz Poems)
This that you see, the false presentment plannedWith finest art and all the colored showsAnd reasonings of shade, doth but ...
This that you see, the false presentment plannedWith finest art and all the colored showsAnd reasonings of shade, doth but ...
Darkness below and darkness above;Under Archangel's black wingThe plan of God unfolds.Creation's paradox is infiniteEternity is being made of time,Imperishable ...
Now from Leander's place she rose, and found Her hair and rent robe scatter'd on the ground; Which ...
No charms she now can boast,--'tis true,But other charmers wither too:"And she is old,"--the fact I know,And old will other ...
Vocat aestus in umbram Nemesianus Es. IV. E. P. Ode pour l'?lection de son s?pulchre For three years, out of ...
What art thou, SPLEEN, which ev'ry thing dost ape? Thou Proteus to abus'd Mankind, Who never yet thy real Cause ...
In the Beginning, God, the great Schoolmaster, wrote upon the white leaves of our souls the text of life, in ...
Semichorus.Oh Tyrant Love! hast thou possestThe prudent, learn'd, and virtuous breast?Wisdom and wit in vain reclaim,And Arts but soften us ...
Presse me not to take more pleasure In this world of sugred lies,And to use a larger measure ...
These fought in any case,and some believing,pro domo, in any case.some quick to arm,some for adventure,some from fear of weakness,some ...
NOT in the heavens alone is Truth renowned; Sad human hearts, that seem to love her less, Even in mutiny ...
What art thou, SPLEEN, which ev'ry thing dost ape? Thou Proteus to abus'd Mankind, Who never yet thy real Cause ...
The opposite seeks the opposite and the drop of black grows within white until turning white into black and conversely ...
I have no camera but imagination's tinted glass I cannot pass this crumbling dry stone wall Without a break to ...
(To Paul Sykes, author of 'Sweet Agony') He demolished five doors at a sitting And topped it off with an ...
FROM off a hill whose concave womb reworded A plaintful story from a sistering vale, My spirits to attend this ...
In these deep solitudes and awful cells, Where heav'nly-pensive contemplation dwells, And ever-musing melancholy reigns; What means this tumult in ...
Wee falsely think it due unto our friends, That we should grieve for their too early ends: He that surveys ...
For three years, out of key with his time, He strove to resuscitate the dead art Of poetry; to maintain ...
"Vocat aestus in umbram" Nemesianus Es. IV. E. P. Ode pour l'élection de son sépulchre For three years, out of ...
These fought in any case, and some believing pro domo, in any case ..... Died some, pro patria, walked eye-deep ...
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