The Great Summons [from the Chinese] (Arthur Waley Poems)
Green Spring receivethThe vacant earth;The white sun shineth;Spring wind provokethTo burst and burgeonEach sprout and flower.In those dark caves where ...
Green Spring receivethThe vacant earth;The white sun shineth;Spring wind provokethTo burst and burgeonEach sprout and flower.In those dark caves where ...
A sweat-dripping horse and a half-naked myall, And a message: 'Come out to the back of the run- Be out ...
Perched on a dead volcanic pile,Now charted as a submerged peak,Near to a moon-washed coral isle,A hundred leagues from Mozambique,Three ...
The merry brown hares came leapingOver the crest of the hill,Where the clover and corn lay sleepingUnder the moonlight still.Leaping ...
Heavens bright Lamp, shine forth some of thy Light,But just so long to paint this dismal Night;Then draw thy beams, ...
Come Jack, our place is with the ruckOn the open road today,Not with the tepid "footpath sneak"Or with the wise ...
She lay among the myrtles on the cliff;Above her glared the noon; beneath, the sea.Upon the white horizon Atho's peakWeltered ...
WE went a-begging for a nobler creed, We craved the living bread and wine of thought, That Eucharist which is ...
There is a bird that hangs head-down and cries Between the mango leaves and passion vines. Below, a spotted serpent ...
I They went to sea in a Sieve, they did, In a Sieve they went to sea: In spite of ...
It was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea; And the skipper had taken his little daughter, To bear ...
The world needing to hear to taste the kingdom more yeast to be added more water, more flour so that ...
He said his name was Billy, he worked in the same spot in this place the same spot he said ...
The French had nothing on us. okay, other than skill, tradition, and hygiene We all were vintners for a moment ...
By your unnumbered charities A miracle disclose, Lord of the Images, whose love The eyelids and the rose Takes for ...
ANOTHER METHOD OF MAKING WALNUT CATSUP And this is a very small cookbook for Trout Fishing in America as if ...
Si credere dignum est.--Virgil, Georgics, III, 390 Oh, worthy of belief I hold it was, Virgil, your legend in those ...
THE WALK TO THE PARADISE GARDENS 1 Bonfire Night beckoned us to the bridge By Saint Hilda's where we started ...
Here where the wind is always north-north-east And children learn to walk on frozen toes, Wonder begets an envy of ...
Fanaticism?No.Writing is exciting and baseball is like writing. You can never tell with either how it will go or what ...
Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else get your way. Life is not no much a matter of position ...
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