Verse (Nizar Qabbani Poems)
1FriendsThe old word is dead.The old books are dead.Our speech with holes like worn-out shoes is dead.Dead is the mind ...
1FriendsThe old word is dead.The old books are dead.Our speech with holes like worn-out shoes is dead.Dead is the mind ...
Aw live in a snug little cot,An' tho' poor, yet aw keep aght o' debt,Cloise by, in a big garden ...
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *To-night ...
There lived a worthy couple onceIn good old Birming Town.Mr. and Mrs. Toots by name,A better was not found.But Mrs. ...
This seablue fir that rode the mountain stormIs swaddled here in splints of tin to die.Sofas around in chubby velvet ...
From the window of the chapel softly sounds an organ's note,Through the wintry Sabbath gloaming drifting shreds of music float,And ...
(Translated from the French by David Gascoyne)The feet of morning the feet of noon and the feet of eveningwalk ceaselessly ...
THE GENTLEMAN FARMER.Gwyn was a farmer, whom the farmers all,Who dwelt around, "the Gentleman" would call;Whether in pure humility or ...
TO THE MARQUIS GINO CAPPONI. I was mistaken, my dear Gino. Long And greatly have I erred. I fancied life ...
"Teapots and Quails,Snuffers and Snails,Set him a sailingand see how he sails!..Mitres and Beams,Thimbles and Creams,Set him a screamingand hark! ...
Dear Dolly! who does not recallThe thrilling page that pictured allThose charms that held our sense in thrall Just as ...
Last nite I dreamed of T.S. Eliotwelcoming me to the land of dreamSofas couches fog in EnglandTea in his digs ...
In Animal House (by which title I callA dwelling whose true name is not that at all)There are dogs on ...
Last nite I dreamed of T.S. Eliot welcoming me to the land of dream Sofas couches fog in England Tea ...
WHEN the breeze of a joyful dawn blew free In the silken sail of infancy, The tide of time flow'd ...
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