PoetryThe Fool’s Prayer The royal feast was done; the King Sought some new sport to banish care, And… By Edward Rowland Sill
PoetryThe Death of Lovers We shall have beds filled with light odours, couches deep as tombs, and, set out… By Charles Baudelaire
PoetryAn Excerpt from: A Woman’s Beloved You that have known passion, think not that you have fathomed love. It may be… By Marguerite Wilkinson
PoetryHumility The bird that soars on highest wing Builds on the ground her lowly nest; And… By James Montgomery
PoetryThe Intoxicated Poet A poet, having taken the bridle off his tongue, spoke thus: “More fragrant than the… By Allen Upward
PoetryMohammed’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
PoetryThe God Abandons Antony When suddenly, at midnight, you hear an invisible procession going by with exquisite music, voices,… By C.P. Cavafy
PoetryIn the Highlands In the highlands, in the country places, Where the old plain men have rosy faces,… By Robert Louis Stevenson