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The Fool’s Prayer

The royal feast was done; the King
Sought some new sport to banish care,
And…
By Edward Rowland Sill
Poetry

The Death of Lovers

We shall have beds filled with light odours, couches deep as tombs, and, set out…
By Charles Baudelaire
Poetry

An Excerpt from: A Woman’s Beloved

You that have known passion, think not that you have fathomed love.
It may be…
By Marguerite Wilkinson
Poetry

Humility

The bird that soars on highest wing
Builds on the ground her lowly nest;
And…
By James Montgomery
Poetry

Interior

It sheds a shy solemnity,
This lamp in our poor room.
O grey and gold…
By Hart Crane
Poetry

The Intoxicated Poet

A poet, having taken the bridle off his tongue, spoke thus: “More fragrant than the…
By Allen Upward
Poetry

Mohammed’s Summoning

For T.W. Power stepped into his hiding place:
at once a presence he could not…
By Rainer Maria Rilke
Poetry

“In sweet music is such art”

Orpheus, with his lute, made trees,
And the mountain-tops that freeze,
Bow themselves when he…
By William Shakespeare
Poetry

The God Abandons Antony

When suddenly, at midnight, you hear
an invisible procession going by
with exquisite music, voices,…
By C.P. Cavafy
Poetry

In the Highlands

In the highlands, in the country places,
Where the old plain men have rosy faces,…
By Robert Louis Stevenson
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