Every day I bear a burden (Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi Poems)
Every day I bear a burden, and I bear this calamity for a purpose: I bear the discomfort of cold ...
Every day I bear a burden, and I bear this calamity for a purpose: I bear the discomfort of cold ...
By the side of the brook, where the willow is waving Why sits the wan Youth, in his wedding-suit gay! ...
First having read the book of myths, and loaded the camera, and checked the edge of the knife-blade, I put ...
You are a friend then, as I make it out, Of our man Shakespeare, who alone of us Will put ...
Though for your sake I would not have you now So near to me tonight as now you are, God ...
I Just as I wonder at the twofold screen Of twisted innocence that you would plait For eyes that uncourageously ...
NOTHING so true as what you once let fall, "Most Women have no Characters at all." Matter too soft a ...
Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children. Cold as snow breath, it tamps the womb Where the yew trees blow ...
As I lie at rest on a patch of clover In the Western Park when the day is done. I ...
Eupatius thought: "Give him a thousand horses, a thousand bridles of eloquent gold. Wash his feet, feed him well, show ...
Good people of high and low degree, I pray ye all be advised by me, And don't believe what the ...
Sisters - Heaviness and Tenderness- you look the same. Wasps and bees both suck the heavy rose. Man dies, and ...
Indoors the tang of a tiny oil lamp. Outdoors The winking signal on the waste of sea. Indoors the sound ...
Most of the time he worked, a sort of sleep with a purpose, so far as I could tell. How ...
Holland, that scarce deserves the name of Land, As but th'Off-scouring of the Brittish Sand; And so much Earth as ...
Edna St. Vincent Millay - Intention To Escape From Him I think I will learn some beautiful language, useless for ...
I have always aspired to a more spacious form that would be free from the claims of poetry or prose ...
To be able to see every side of every question; To be on every side, to be everything, to be ...
I, who erewhile the happy Garden sung By one man's disobedience lost, now sing Recovered Paradise to all mankind, By ...
Undoubtedly he will relent, and turn From his displeasure; in whose look serene, When angry most he seemed and most ...
O, for that warning voice, which he, who saw The Apocalypse, heard cry in Heaven aloud, Then when the Dragon, ...
To what purpose, April, do you return again? Beauty is not enough. You can no longer quiet me with the ...
--The Carpathian Frontier, October, 1968 --for my brother Once, in a foreign country, I was suddenly ill. I was driving ...
Oh, I have tried to laugh the pain away, Let new flames brush my love-springs like a feather. But the ...
Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and ...
Out of burlap sacks, out of bearing butter, Out of black bean and wet slate bread, Out of the acids ...
The first time I drank gin I thought it must be hair tonic. My brother swiped the bottle from a ...
Still sober, César Vallejo comes home and finds a black ribbon around the apartment building covering the front door. He ...
I. EDWIN BOOTH An old actor at the Player's Club told me that Edwin Booth first impersonated Hamlet when a ...
Chapter I. Once on a time, a Dawn, all red and bright Leapt on the conquered ramparts of the Night, ...
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