Incantation (Czeslaw Milosz Poems)
Human reason is beautiful and invincible. No bars, no barbed wire, no pulping of books, No sentence of banishment can ...
Human reason is beautiful and invincible. No bars, no barbed wire, no pulping of books, No sentence of banishment can ...
No more of talk where God or Angel guest With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd, To sit indulgent, ...
It does not know it glitters It does not know it flies It does not know it is this not ...
Undoubtedly he will relent, and turn From his displeasure; in whose look serene, When angry most he seemed and most ...
ALL day they loitered by the resting ships, Telling their beauties over, taking stock; At night the verdict left my ...
O, for that warning voice, which he, who saw The Apocalypse, heard cry in Heaven aloud, Then when the Dragon, ...
FRIENDS and loves we have none, nor wealth nor blessed abode, But the hope of the City of God at ...
"O love, lean thou thy cheek to mine, And let the tears together flow"-- Such was the song you sang ...
Child of a day, thou knowest not The tears that overflow thy urn, The gushing eyes that read thy lot, ...
Welcome, old friend! These many years Have we lived door by door; The fates have laid aside their shears Perhaps ...
The Year's twelve daughters had in turn gone by, Of measured pace tho' varying mien all twelve, Some froward, some ...
I will not reason, wrestle here with you, Though you pursue and worry me about; As well put forth my ...
So you think its Stephen? Then I'd best make sure Be on the safe side as it were. Ah, theres ...
Dürer would have seen a reason for living in a town like this, with eight stranded whales to look at; ...
More like a vault -- you pull the handle out and on the shelves: not a lot, and what there ...
For authorities whose hopes are shaped by mercenaries? Writers entrapped by teatime fame and by commuters' comforts? Not for these ...
They are, the surfaces, gorgeous: a master pastry chef at work here, the dips and whorls, the wrist-twist squeezes of ...
A Masque Presented At Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before The Earl Of Bridgewater, Then President Of Wales. The Persons The ATTENDANT ...
Silvia, do you remember the moments, in your mortal life, when beauty still shone in your sidelong, laughing eyes, and ...
Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and ...
"What should such fellows as I do, Crawling between earth and heaven?" Here is the phial; here I turn the ...
Cyriack, this three years day these eys, though clear To outward view, of blemish or of spot; Bereft of light ...
Where drowsy sound of college-chimes Across the air is blown, And drowsy fragrance of the limes, I lie and dream ...
(AN ECHO FROM A LARGER LYRE.) That was love that I had before Years ago, when my heart was young; ...
O is it Love or is it Fame, This thing for which I sigh? Or has it then no earthly ...
A True Incident of Pre-Revolutionary French History. Now the lovely autumn morning breathes its freshness in earth's face, In the ...
Most wonderful and strange it seems, that I Who but a little time ago was tost High on the waves ...
Hollow rang the house when I knocked on the door, And I lingered on the threshold with my hand Upraised ...
Late-born and woman-souled I dare not hope, The freshness of the elder lays, the might Of manly, modern passion shall ...
Early March. The cold beach deserted. My kids home in a bare house, bundled up and listening to rock music ...
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