Dust
My soul clings to the dust. Ps. 119.25 How like the dust my soul can be. I see it sometimes, dazed and inattentive in a ray of light, or...
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Original Translation
- Aug 30, 2019
- 1 min
Goethe's "It Springs Eternal" Set by Johannes Brahms
Alto Rhapsody, Op. 53 "Marie and I were sitting in the dining-room when the bell rang, and we heard Brahms go to our mother's room. Soon...
By Michael R. Burch
- Aug 26, 2019
- 2 min
To Have Loved
Helen, bright accompaniment, accouterment of war as sure as all the polished swords of princes groomed to lie in mausoleums all eternity...
Translation
- Aug 20, 2019
- 1 min
Immer leise wird mein Schlummer Set by Johannes Brahms
My sleep grows ever more gentle, Only my sorrow, like a veil, Trembles over me. I hear you often in my dreams, Standing at my door,...
By Paul Gallagher
- Aug 12, 2019
- 1 min
The Sensitive Plant on the Moon
Night past night, down the endless starry river; We watch for any change, but do not see The tiny metaphor that is to be The lightning...
By James Sale
- Jul 29, 2019
- 6 min
Poetry and the Muses Part II
The Muses we understand from Part 1 of this article are the daughters of the future and the past, and more specifically of memory, light,...
By Daniel Leach
- Jul 22, 2019
- 2 min
In Celebration: 50 Years After Apollo 11 - Song of the Crab Nebula Or, "A Shadow of a Magnitude
Long before the first eyes ever saw me Floating like a ghost upon the night, Long before human minds even feebly Pierced beyond their...
Translation
- Jul 15, 2019
- 2 min
Goethe "Prometheus"
So cover up thy heaven, Zeus, With cloudy mist! And like a boy, who chops The heads from thistles, Go blast the oaks and mountaintops!...
The Editors
- Jul 9, 2019
- 4 min
Profiles in Poetry: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) is widely regarded as one of the greatest poets in the English language. And while he is one of the most...
By James Sale
- Jul 1, 2019
- 7 min
Poetry and the Muses Part 1
Republished with permission from the author We live in a post-modernist world and its values are everywhere around us; and everywhere...
By Paul Gallagher
- Jun 17, 2019
- 2 min
The Night Star
At last, the Sun looked down upon the treasure The night star had seen; It rose, and burned to know what midnight pleasure To the night...
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