Jerusalem (Nizar Qabbani Poems)
I wept until my tears were dryI prayed until the candles flickeredI knelt until the floor creakedI asked about Mohammed ...
I wept until my tears were dryI prayed until the candles flickeredI knelt until the floor creakedI asked about Mohammed ...
When merry milkmaids to their cattle call At evenfall And voices rangeLoud through the gloam from grange to quiet grange,Wild waif-songs from ...
The fells are jagged in the shining air; the windSharpens itself like a knife on the rough edges;The sky is ...
The friends have gone home far up the valleyof that river into whose estuarythe man from England sailed in his ...
These autumn gardens, russet, gray and brown,The sward with shrivelled foliage strown,The shrubs and treesBy weary wings of sunshine overflownAnd ...
The greens of the Ganges delta foliate.Of heartless youth made late aware he pled:Brownies, please come.To Henry in his sparest ...
The swallows pass in restless companies.Against the pink-flowered may, one shining breastThrobs momentary music--then, possessedWith motion, sweeps on some new ...
By such an all-embalming summer dayAs sweetens now among the mountain pinesDown to the cornland yonder and the vines,To where ...
From folly, flight, dismayrelented, suddenly burstmy wintry liking out and getsa gloss to the crudded sky.Sun newly risen meetsrival a ...
"This is her diary. Come with me to viewThe canyon; think you see it as of oldWhen Martha lived, and ...
A Threnody for Robert Louis StevensonCOLD, the dull cold! What ails the sun,And takes the heart out of the day?What ...
Comes the lure of green things growing,Comes the call of waters flowing -And the wayfarer desireMoves and wakes and would ...
A guardian of long-distance conduits in the desert? A one-man crew of a fortress in the sand? Whoever he was. ...
As far as the eye could see A subtle blue hue Overwhelming the brown, And the dark green Fields and ...
With tears pouring down my face, washing down into my mouth wide open singing, praying, believing in the power of ...
We that have been saved are clothed with Christ coated by the example of the risen Lord, who humbled himself ...
Without walls, just the tent the place of the meeting for the people where God lived before the Temple before ...
The greens of the Ganges delta foliate. Of heartless youth made late aware he pled: Brownies, please come. To Henry ...
A New Version: 1980 What is that little black thing I see there in the white? Walt Whitman One Out ...
Where it says snow read teeth-marks of a virgin Where it says knife read you passed through my bones like ...
A guardian of long-distance conduits in the desert? A one-man crew of a fortress in the sand? Whoever he was. ...
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