Guinevere By Alfred Lord Tennyson
Guinevere By Alfred Lord Tennyson Queen Guinevere had fled the court, and sat There in the holy house at Almesbury Weeping, none with her save a little maid, A novice: one low light betwixt them burned Blurred by the creeping mist, for all abroad, Beneath a moon unseen albeit at full, The white mist, like […]
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage: A Romaunt. Canto I. By George Gordon Byron
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage: A Romaunt. Canto I. By George Gordon Byron “Childe” is a title from medieval times, designating a young noble who is not yet knighted. Disillusioned with his aimless life devoted to pursuing pleasure, Childe Harold seeks distraction by going on a solitary pilgrimage to foreign lands. The first two cantos describe his travels through Portugal, Spain, […]
Will People Still Continue To Sabotage Their Own Mission? By Abdul Wahab
Will People Still Continue To Sabotage Their Own Mission? By Abdul Wahab How nice was to see the love of the pigeon!How tasty was the fruits of every season! Now the nature is not fresh but full of poisonThe earth has lost its beauty and acts like a prison. Were the civilizations destroyed without any […]
By The Lake By Tu Fu
By The Lake By Tu Fu The old fellow from Shao-ling weeps with stifled sobs as he walks furtively by the bends of the Sepentine on a day in spring. In the waterside palaces the thousands of doors are locked. For whom have the willows and rushed put on their fresh greenery?I remember how formerly, […]
Binsey Poplars By Gerard Manley Hopkins
Binsey Poplars By Gerard Manley Hopkins felled 1879 My aspens dear, whose airy cages quelled, Quelled or quenched in leaves the leaping sun, All felled, felled, are all felled; Of a fresh and following folded rank Not spared, not one That dandled a sandalled Shadow that swam or sankOn meadow & river & wind-wandering […]
For A Coming Extinction By W. S. Merwin
For A Coming Extinction By W. S. Merwin Gray whaleNow that we are sending you to The EndThat great godTell him That we who follow you invented forgivenessAnd forgive nothing I write as though you could understandAnd I could say itOne must always pretend somethingAmong the dyingWhen you have left the seas nodding on their stalksEmpty of […]
Webcam The World By Heather McHugh
Webcam The World By Heather McHugh Heather McHugh Get all of it. set up the shotsat every angle; run them online24-7. Get beautiful stuff (likescenery and greenery and style)and get the ugliness (like crueltyand quackery and rue). there’s nothingunastonishing – but get that, too. We have to save it all, now that we can, […]
Goodbye, Goldeneye By May Swenson
Goodbye, Goldeneye By May Swenson Rags of black plastic, shred of a kite caught on the telephone cable above the bay has twisted in the wind all winter, summer, fall. Leaves of birch and maple, brown paws of the oak have all let go but this. Shiny black Mylar on stem strong as fishline, the busted […]
Earth Summit By Oliver Tearle
Earth Summit By Oliver Tearle All gifts are off: for this stolen spark of powerthe world rebelled and asked for something back.He cheated. Man enjoyed playing with firetoo much, thought little of him on his rock,chained and consumed. The air grew hot and dark. Among her luggage-landfall was a jar.Unstopped, it filled the world with […]
Water Devil By Jamaal May
Water Devil By Jamaal May Spout of a leaf, listen out for the screams of your relentless audience: the applause of a waterfall in the distance, a hurricane looting a Miami shopping mall. How careful you are with the rain-cradling curve of your back. Near your forest, all are ready to swim and happy to […]
