If time must all accounts settle And with all mortals seek requital How should the earthly heaven afford When in time death’s train all...

Behind the sparkling light in all men's eyes, Across the wide arcade of twinkling skies Reside the hidden dreams of those who died, Who...

Dante wrote a series of Canzoni (songs) entitled the Rime Petrose, the 'Stone Rhymes.' Here is the first installment of the Stone Rhymes....

Is man not the one who created wheat? For what we call natural is hardly so – those things used by him – are far from spontaneous...

Sometimes, when the light and the mists of the day Settle holy and soft on the edge of the night, When the sights and the sounds of the...

Wa le ghalib il Allah (God is the only victor) -Muhamed Ibn-l-Ahmar, founder of the Alhambra Palace He rides across the star-engulfed...

Ganymede was the loveliest born of the race of mortals, and therefore the gods caught him away to themselves, to be Zeus' wine-pourer,...

It was in the canyon in twilight deep Of the mystical desert night, When the shadows creep down from the mountainsides steep And envelop...

The answer to the above question is of course no. Shakespeare is not dead because every true poet is immortal. However, many contemporary...