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Sunday, 29 June 2014
What Kind Of God? - Kabir
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What kind of God would He be if He did not hear the bangles ring on an ant’s wrist
Saturday, 28 June 2014
To the Moon - Giacomo Leopardi
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Oh gracious moon, now as the year turns, I remember how, heavy with sorrow, I climbed this hill to gaze on you,
Friday, 27 June 2014
Between going and staying the day wavers - Octavio Paz
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Between going and staying the day wavers, in love with its own transparency. The circular afternoon is now a bay where the world in still...
Thursday, 26 June 2014
The Half Door - Seumas O’Sullivan
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Dark eyes, wonderful, strange and dear they shone A moment’s space; And wandering under the white stars I had gone In a strange place...
Wednesday, 25 June 2014
Relativity - A. H. Reginald Buller
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There was a young lady named Bright
Tuesday, 24 June 2014
The Audience - Eqrem Basha
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The head of the protocol department asked What are you involved in We are tired I said
Monday, 23 June 2014
To a Creole Lady - Charles Baudelaire
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In a country perfumed with the sun’s embrace, I knew ‘neath a dais of purpled palms, And branches where idleness weeps o’er one’s face, A...
Saturday, 21 June 2014
The nymphs (The Hunter and the Hero - Book VII) - Bhāravi
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The beauteous nymphs then left the sky, Attended by Gandharvas 1 skilled, And joyous notes of drum and shell And sound of cars the blue ...
Friday, 20 June 2014
The Absence - Paul Éluard
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I speak to you over cities I speak to you over plains
Thursday, 19 June 2014
The Garmont of Gud Ladeis - Robert Henryson
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Wald my gud lady lufe me best And wirk eftir my will, I suld ane garmond gudliest Gar mak hir body till.
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