Wang Bo’s “Farewell:” An Exemplar of Classical Chinese Poetry and a Lesson for Today
China’s uninterrupted literary tradition of three millennia is truly one of the world’s cultural wonders. Among its long history, the...
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- 2 days ago
- 1 min
Three Heine Poems
Ich glaub nicht an den Himmel I don’t believe in Heaven, Whose peace the preacher cites: I only trust your eyes now, They’re my heavenly...
By Jason Emerson
- 4 days ago
- 1 min
Glastonbury, England: A Memory and an Old Photograph
What intrigued me most that windy day was she, She who sat alone on a bench of stone on the top of Glastonbury Tor, Who cared nothing for...
John H. B. Martin
- Sep 16
- 1 min
Facebook Message & Other Poems
Facebook Message for T A flower is not a flower, it is a flowing. It is that light which drifts through many leaves to finally seem...
Translation
- Sep 11
- 3 min
The Ring of Polycrates by Friedrich Schiller
Listen to the Ring of Polycrates here He stood on the ancient battlements, Proudly gazing from the parapets On Samos, over which he...
By Rowland Hughes
- Sep 8
- 1 min
Images & Other Poetry
Images You spoke of them as if they were real. People who lived in a sepia toned world, pressed like flowers behind polished glass. Part...
The Editors
- Sep 8
- 1 min
Poetry Fireside Chat: The Re-enchantement of Poetry & Civilization
Could the disenchantment of our modern world be in part due to the disenchantment of its poetry and art? Might the path out of our...
By Drew Keane
- Sep 4
- 1 min
Seventy-three
After C. P. Cavafy's "Η διορία του Νέρωνος" (based upon an anecdote in Seutonius’s Life of Nero) His fear dispersed at once when he had...
The Editors
- Sep 3
- 1 min
Exiting the Cave: The New Aristocrats
What kind of education befits a new generation of true Aristocratic and Philosophical souls? Join Dr. Quan Le and David Gosselin as they...
Translation
- Aug 28
- 2 min
Rapture by Stefan George
Rapture I feel another planet's air. So faded are these faces in the dark That had turned to me in care. And the trees and paths I loved...
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