If I could fly from this dark valley Where the gloomy vapors creep And by some wonder swiftly flee, My soul could blessedly weep! Gazing...

The sun appeared to linger long and low Upon the Western sea of clouds that day, And for a moment draw the soul away To sacred places...

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 creations....

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...

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