ΧΟΡΙΚΣ

By: Richard Aldington The ancient songs Pass deathward mournfully. Cold lips that sing no more, and withered wreaths, Regretful eyes, and drooping breasts and wings— Symbols of ancient songs Mournfully passing Down

So You Want To Be A Writer?

By: Charles Bukowski if it doesn’t come bursting out of youin spite of everything,don’t do it.unless it comes unasked out of yourheart and your mind and your mouthand your gut,don’t do it.if

Air and Angels

By: John Donne Twice or thrice had I lov’d thee, Before I knew thy face or name; So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame Angels affect us oft, and worshipp’d

A Dog Has Died

By: Pablo Neruda My dog has died. I buried him in the garden next to a rusted old machine. Some day I’ll join him right there, but now he’s gone with his

To Homer

By: JOHN KEATS Standing aloof in giant ignorance,   Of thee I hear and of the Cyclades,As one who sits ashore and longs perchance   To visit dolphin-coral in deep seas.So thou wast blind;—but then the

At last. It’s come. Love

By: Sulpicia At last. It’s come. Love,the kind that veilingwill give me reputation morethan showing my soul naked to someone.I prayed to Aphrodite in Latin, in poems;she brought him, snuggled himinto my

Because I Cannot Sleep

By: Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī Because I cannot sleepI make music at night.I am troubled by the onewhose face has the color of spring flowers.I have neither sleep nor patience,neither a good

Address To Venus

Poem By: LUCRETIUS Delight of Humankind, and Gods above;Parent of Rome; Propitious Queen of Love;Whose vital pow’r, Air, Earth, and Sea supplies;And breeds what e’r is born beneath the rowling Skies:For every

THE STRENGTH OF FATE

By: Euripides N heaven-high musings and many, Far-seeking and deep debate, Of strong things find I not any That is as the strength of Fate. Help nor healing is told In soothsayings

My Heart Leaps Up

By: William Wordsworth My heart leaps up when I beholdA rainbow in the sky:So was it when my life began;So is it now I am a man;So be it when I shall