The snake gourd blossoms (Masaoka Shiki Poems)
The snake gourd blossoms.My throat blocked with phlegm,I am already a Buddha.(Masaoka Shiki)
The snake gourd blossoms.My throat blocked with phlegm,I am already a Buddha.(Masaoka Shiki)
The luffa flowered.I am a soulChoked with phlegm.(Masaoka Shiki)
When the loofah bloomedHe choked on phlegmAnd died.(Masaoka Shiki)
DISPOSED to wed, e'en while you hasten, stay;There's great advantage in a small delay:Thus Ovid sang, and much the wise ...
OF manufactures, trade, inventions rare,Steam-towers and looms, you'd know our Borough's share -'Tis small: we boast not these rich subjects ...
Mr. Simkin B---n---r---d to Lady B---n---r---d, at --- Hall, North. A Consultation of Physicians. Dear mother, my time has been ...
From everything a little remained.From my fear. From your disgust.From stifled cries. From the rosea little remained.A little remained of ...
Come on, ye critics! Find one fault who dare, For, read it backward like a witch's prayer, 'Twill do as ...
Translated From the Arabic of John Duncan.You know so well how to stay me with vapoursDistilled expertly to that unworthy ...
Haydon! forgive me that I cannot speak Definitively of these mighty things; Forgive me, that I have not eagle's wings, ...
Marking time in pencil strokes across a virgin page and waiting for coincidence of heart-beat and second-hand, keying to the ...
I leave the office, take the stairs, in time to mail a letter before 3 in the afternoon--the last dispatch. ...
1.1 Lo now! four other acts upon the stage, 1.2 Childhood, and Youth, the Manly, and Old-age. 1.3 The first: ...
Lo, now four other act upon the stage, Childhood and Youth, the Many and Old age: The first son unto ...
Maybe it's Emphysema, a shiny black jewel of phlegm humming like a clump of bees in my chest. Perhaps a ...
THE LANDS OF MY CHILDHOOD 1 I am leaving the holy city of Leeds For the last time for the ...
Laid now on his smooth bed For the last time, watching dully Through heavy eyelids the day's colour Widow the ...
Something cold is in the air, an aura of ice and phlegm. All day I've built a lifetime and now ...
The Farmer's Goose, who in the Stubble, Has fed without Restraint, or Trouble; Grown fat with Corn and Sitting still, ...
The Men of Seville are, they say, The laziest of Spain. Consummate artists in delay, Allergical to strain; Fr if ...
The sun rose like a tarnished looking-glass to catch the sun and flash His hot message at the missionaries below-- ...
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