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 ...
Comrades! the end of the world's at hand! Our round earth planet? Ah, no;The planet shall roll, and the great sun ...
Whan that Bachus, the myghti lorde,And Juno eke, both by one accorde,Hath sette a-broche of myghti wyne a tone,And after ...
No matter what life you leadthe virgin is a lovely number:cheeks as fragile as cigarette paper,arms and legs made of ...
"Forget the snorting steam and piston stroke,Forget the spreading of the hideous town."—The Earthly ParadiseYes, William Morris, it were well ...
Not the Circean wineMost perilous is for pain:Grapes of the heavens' star-loaden vine,Whereto the lofty-placedThoughts of fair souls attain,Tempt with ...
Freedom, freedom, has been my song And shall be till I die,Or till from every Negro's tongue, I hear it ...
Thou damn'd antipodes to common sense! Thou foil to Flecknoe! Prithee tell from whence Does all this mighty stock of ...
Why, Disease, dost thou molestLadies? and of them the best?Do not men, ynow of ritesTo thy altars, by their nightsSpent ...
Know ye the land where the leaf of the myrtleIs bestow'd on good livers in eating sublime?Where the rage for ...
If the rose in meek dutyMay dedicate humblyTo her grower the beautyWherewith she is comely;If the mine to the minerThe ...
"Clunton and Clunbury, Clungunford and Clun, Are the quietest places Under the sun." In valleys of springs and rivers, By ...
Hold hard, Ned! Lift me down once more, and lay me in the shade. Old man, you've had your work ...
I Before I grew this spacesuit I was trim. I saw it in a doctor's report: "The subject is an ...
If souls should only sheen so bright In heaven as in e'thly light, An' nothen better wer the cease, How ...
If souls should only sheen so bright In heaven as in e'thly light, An' nothen better wer the cease, How ...
I There was a roaring in the wind all night; The rain came heavily and fell in floods; But now ...
No matter what life you lead the virgin is a lovely number: cheeks as fragile as cigarette paper, arms and ...
Well, I've waited mighty patient while they all came rolling in, Mister Lawson, Mister Dyson, and the others of their ...
Do you remember, O Delphic Apollo, The sunset hour by the river, when Mickey M'Grew Cried, "There's a ghost," and ...
Reading in Ovid the sorrowful story of Itys, Son of the love of Tereus and Procne, slain For the guilty ...
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