Not dead,—oh no,—she cannot die!
Only a swoon, from loss of blood!
Levite England passes her by,
Help, Samaritan! None is nigh;
Who shall staunch me this sanguine flood?
Thursday, 30 April 2015
Wednesday, 29 April 2015
The Story of the Royal Huntress - T. Ramakrishna
It was a land of plenty and of wealth;
There God's indulgent hand made for a race
Supremely blest a paradise on earth.
A land of virtue, truth, and charity,
Where nature's choicest treasures man enjoyed
With little toil, where youth respected age,
Where each his neighbour's wife his sister deemed,
Where side by side the tiger and the lamb
The water drank, and sported oft in mirth.
A land where each man deemed him highly blest
When he relieved the miseries of the poor,
When to his roof the wearied traveller came
To share his proffered bounty with good cheer.
Such was the far-famed land of Panchala.
There God's indulgent hand made for a race
Supremely blest a paradise on earth.
A land of virtue, truth, and charity,
Where nature's choicest treasures man enjoyed
With little toil, where youth respected age,
Where each his neighbour's wife his sister deemed,
Where side by side the tiger and the lamb
The water drank, and sported oft in mirth.
A land where each man deemed him highly blest
When he relieved the miseries of the poor,
When to his roof the wearied traveller came
To share his proffered bounty with good cheer.
Such was the far-famed land of Panchala.
Monday, 27 April 2015
Warrior's Longing - Alfred Lichtenstein
I would like to lie in my bed
In a white shirt,
In a white shirt,
Sunday, 26 April 2015
A Ballad Of Sark - Algernon Charles Swinburne
High beyond the granite portal arched across
Like the gateway of some godlike giant’s hold
Sweep and swell the billowy breasts of moor and moss
East and westward, and the dell their slopes enfold
Basks in purple, glows in green, exults in gold
Glens that know the dove and fells that hear the lark
Fill with joy the rapturous island, as an ark
Full of spicery wrought from herb and flower and tree.
Like the gateway of some godlike giant’s hold
Sweep and swell the billowy breasts of moor and moss
East and westward, and the dell their slopes enfold
Basks in purple, glows in green, exults in gold
Glens that know the dove and fells that hear the lark
Fill with joy the rapturous island, as an ark
Full of spicery wrought from herb and flower and tree.
Wednesday, 15 April 2015
House of the poor - Mzi Mahola
When I was a little boy
I never questioned why
A solitary path
Led from a poor man’s hut.
I never questioned why
A solitary path
Led from a poor man’s hut.
Tuesday, 14 April 2015
Deluge - Sándor Kányádi
The broken wings of lightning bolts are
lashing my window.
The deluge is knocking.
I'm listening.
lashing my window.
The deluge is knocking.
I'm listening.
Monday, 13 April 2015
I saw my country’s walls - Francisco de Quevedo
I saw my country’s walls.
If at one time
they were strong,
now they have
collapsed, exhausted
by the course
of the age.
If at one time
they were strong,
now they have
collapsed, exhausted
by the course
of the age.
Sunday, 12 April 2015
A plain soing of the Mexicans - Nahuatl indian (anonymous)
I alone will clothe thee with flowers, mine alone is the song which casts down our grief before God in thy house.
Saturday, 11 April 2015
Vondel's Lucifer (Act I, lines 27-49) - Joost van den Vondel
Apollion:
I have, Lord Belzebub,
The low terrene observed with keenest eye.
And now I offer thee the fruits grown there
So far below these heights, 'neath other skies
I have, Lord Belzebub,
The low terrene observed with keenest eye.
And now I offer thee the fruits grown there
So far below these heights, 'neath other skies
Friday, 10 April 2015
Moorish Ballad - José Zorilla
And there the Sultan stood,
And murmurs heard,
While watching jealously.
And murmurs heard,
While watching jealously.
Thursday, 9 April 2015
The Desert of Atacama V - Raúl Zurita
Speak of the whistle of Atacama
the wind erases like snow
the colour of that plain
the wind erases like snow
the colour of that plain
Wednesday, 8 April 2015
Passer-By These Are Words - Yves Bonnefoy
Passer-by, these are words.
But instead of reading
I want you to listen: to this frail
Voice like that of letters eaten by grass.
But instead of reading
I want you to listen: to this frail
Voice like that of letters eaten by grass.
Tuesday, 7 April 2015
Eastern River - Peter Huchel
Do not look for the stones
in water above the mud,
the boat is gone.
in water above the mud,
the boat is gone.
Monday, 6 April 2015
Milestone - Bruce Levitan
So the time has come at last
In years and months, and days and hours:
In years and months, and days and hours:
Sunday, 5 April 2015
Easter - Edmund Spenser
Most glorious Lord of Lyfe! that, on this day,
Didst make Thy triumph over death and sin;
Didst make Thy triumph over death and sin;
Saturday, 4 April 2015
Theme (from Bell Songs) - Carl Spitteler
Bell with tongue of silver tone,
I would make thy secret known -
Cooped with screech-owl, flittermouse,
I would make thy secret known -
Cooped with screech-owl, flittermouse,
Friday, 3 April 2015
Good Friday - Edwin Morgan
Three o’clock. The bus lurches
round into the sun. ‘D’s this go –‘
he flops beside me – 'right along Bath Street?
round into the sun. ‘D’s this go –‘
he flops beside me – 'right along Bath Street?
Thursday, 2 April 2015
Found - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I wandered lonely
Beneath the trees,
And sought for nothing,
But strolled at ease.
Beneath the trees,
And sought for nothing,
But strolled at ease.
Wednesday, 1 April 2015
When Philosophies Sleep - Edasseri Govindan Nair
"Everything is fate"
That was father's faith;
He had nothing to do but wait.
That was father's faith;
He had nothing to do but wait.
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