In the stillness of night Wisdom came and stoodBy my bed. She gazed upon me like a tender motherAnd wiped
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Song Of The Rain (by Khalil Gibran)
I am dotted silver threads dropped from heaven By the gods. Nature then takes me, to adorn Her fields and valleys.
Continue readingA Psalm of Life (By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Tell me not in mournful numbers,Life is but an empty dream!For the soul is dead that slumbers,And things are not
Continue readingHesitant Ode by Miklós Radnóti
How long I’ve been preparing to tell you About the hidden star system of my love; Just in one picture
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Why, my heart, do we love her so?Why does the great sea ebb and flow? –Why does the round world
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A SPECTRAL form Soracte stands, snow-crowned, His shrouded pines beneath their burden bending; Not now, his rifts descending, Leap the
Continue readingSelf Portrait 1974 by János Pilinszky
My shirt, as if a mass murderer’swhite and well-ironed,but my head, as if a small boy’sa thousand years old and
Continue readingA Song (by Joesph Brodsky)
I wish you were here, dear, I wish you were here.I wish you sat on the sofaand I sat
Continue readingSonnet 27 (by Pablo Neruda)
I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.I
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