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We Are Lonely In Your Crowd
We are lonely in your crowd
just like the deaf community
we are searching for humility,
we are lonely in your crowd
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Francis Ngwenya
We are lonely in your crowd
just like the deaf community
we are searching for humility,
we are lonely in your crowd
.....
Francis Ngwenya
Ode 1373
I was dead, then alive.
Weeping, then laughing.
The power of love came into me,
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Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi
I was dead, then alive.
Weeping, then laughing.
The power of love came into me,
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Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi
On The Lake (1)
Mountain monks facing chess sit
Board on bamboo dark quiet
Shine bamboo no person see
Sometimes hear down chess piece sound
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Bai Juyi
Mountain monks facing chess sit
Board on bamboo dark quiet
Shine bamboo no person see
Sometimes hear down chess piece sound
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Bai Juyi
Easter-day
HOW very hard it is to be
A Christian! Hard for you and me,
â??Not the mere task of making real
That duty up to its ideal,
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Robert Browning
HOW very hard it is to be
A Christian! Hard for you and me,
â??Not the mere task of making real
That duty up to its ideal,
.....
Robert Browning
Near Perigord
I
You'd have men's hearts up from the dust
And tell their secrets, Messire Cino,
Rigkt enough? Then read between the lines of Uc St. Circ,
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Ezra Pound
I
You'd have men's hearts up from the dust
And tell their secrets, Messire Cino,
Rigkt enough? Then read between the lines of Uc St. Circ,
.....
Ezra Pound
Elegy
Here rests beneath this hospitable spot
A youth to flats and flatties not unknown.
The Plymouth Brethren gave it to him hot;
Trinity, Cambridge, claimed him for her own.
.....
Aleister Crowley
Here rests beneath this hospitable spot
A youth to flats and flatties not unknown.
The Plymouth Brethren gave it to him hot;
Trinity, Cambridge, claimed him for her own.
.....
Aleister Crowley
Marburg
I quivered. I flared up, and then was extinguished.
I shook. I had made a proposal - but late,
Too late. I was scared, and she had refused me.
I pity her tears, am more blessed than a saint.
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Boris Pasternak
I quivered. I flared up, and then was extinguished.
I shook. I had made a proposal - but late,
Too late. I was scared, and she had refused me.
I pity her tears, am more blessed than a saint.
.....
Boris Pasternak
The Army Of The Sidhe
Laegaire, son of the king of Connacht, was out one day with the king his father near Loch na-n Ean, the Lake of Birds, and the men of Connacht with them, and they saw a man coming to them through the mist. Long golden-yellow hair he had, and at his belt a gold-hilted sword, and in his hand two five-barbed darts; a gold-rimmed shield on his back, a five-folded crimson cloak about his shoulders, and it is what he said:
The most beautiful of plains is the Plain of the Two Mists; it is not far from this; the men of its army in good order go out ahead of their beautiful king; they march among blue spears, white troops of fighters with curled hair.
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Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory
Laegaire, son of the king of Connacht, was out one day with the king his father near Loch na-n Ean, the Lake of Birds, and the men of Connacht with them, and they saw a man coming to them through the mist. Long golden-yellow hair he had, and at his belt a gold-hilted sword, and in his hand two five-barbed darts; a gold-rimmed shield on his back, a five-folded crimson cloak about his shoulders, and it is what he said:
The most beautiful of plains is the Plain of the Two Mists; it is not far from this; the men of its army in good order go out ahead of their beautiful king; they march among blue spears, white troops of fighters with curled hair.
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Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory
The Vagabond
It was deadly cold in Danbury town
One terrible night in mid November,
A night that the Danbury folk remember
For the sleety wind that hammered them down,
.....
R. C. Lehmann
It was deadly cold in Danbury town
One terrible night in mid November,
A night that the Danbury folk remember
For the sleety wind that hammered them down,
.....
R. C. Lehmann
The Game Of Chess
Red knights, brown bishops, bright queens,
Striking the board, falling in strong â??L's of
colour.
Reaching and striking in angles,
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Ezra Pound
Red knights, brown bishops, bright queens,
Striking the board, falling in strong â??L's of
colour.
Reaching and striking in angles,
.....
Ezra Pound
Willie's Ladye
Willie has ta'en him o'er the faem,
He's wooed a wife, and brought her hame;
He's wooed her for her yellow hair,
But his mother wrought her meikle care;
.....
Andrew Lang
Willie has ta'en him o'er the faem,
He's wooed a wife, and brought her hame;
He's wooed her for her yellow hair,
But his mother wrought her meikle care;
.....
Andrew Lang
Ch 05 On Love And Youth Story 10
In the exuberance of youth, as it usually happens and as thou knowest, I was on the closest terms of intimacy with a sweetheart who had a melodious voice and a form beautiful like the moon just rising.
He, the down of whose cheek drinks the water of immortality,
Whoever looks at his sugar lips eats sweetmeats.
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Saadi Shirazi
In the exuberance of youth, as it usually happens and as thou knowest, I was on the closest terms of intimacy with a sweetheart who had a melodious voice and a form beautiful like the moon just rising.
He, the down of whose cheek drinks the water of immortality,
Whoever looks at his sugar lips eats sweetmeats.
.....
Saadi Shirazi
Verse
Friends
The old word is dead.
The old books are dead.
Our speech with holes like worn-out shoes is dead.
.....
Nizar Qabbani
Friends
The old word is dead.
The old books are dead.
Our speech with holes like worn-out shoes is dead.
.....
Nizar Qabbani
Tam Lin
O I forbid you, maidens a',
That wear gowd on your hair,
To come or gae by Carterhaugh,
For young Tam Lin is there.
.....
Anonymous
O I forbid you, maidens a',
That wear gowd on your hair,
To come or gae by Carterhaugh,
For young Tam Lin is there.
.....
Anonymous
The Taj Of Agra
The Shah Jehan sat with his much-loved wife,
The Empress Mahal, one hot summer day,
In a cool arbor far from courtly strife,
Close by the Jumna, winding on its way.
.....
Joseph Horatio Chant
The Shah Jehan sat with his much-loved wife,
The Empress Mahal, one hot summer day,
In a cool arbor far from courtly strife,
Close by the Jumna, winding on its way.
.....
Joseph Horatio Chant
Even It Will Be Only A Pain, I Want You
Let's dream a happiness,
Now, when we are still a couple,
Let's imagine that we were and are on life scene,
The pieces of a chess game struggle.
.....
Cristina Teodor
Let's dream a happiness,
Now, when we are still a couple,
Let's imagine that we were and are on life scene,
The pieces of a chess game struggle.
.....
Cristina Teodor
Alternative Song For The Severed Head In 'the King Of The Great Clock Tower'
Saddle and ride, I heard a man say,
Out of Ben Bulben and Knocknarea,
What says the Clock in the Great Clock Tower?
All those tragic characters ride
.....
William Butler Yeats
Saddle and ride, I heard a man say,
Out of Ben Bulben and Knocknarea,
What says the Clock in the Great Clock Tower?
All those tragic characters ride
.....
William Butler Yeats
The Fairy Host
Pure white the shields their arms upbear,
With silver emblems rare o'ercast;
Amid blue glittering blades they go,
The horns they blow are loud of blast.
.....
Alfred Percival Graves
Pure white the shields their arms upbear,
With silver emblems rare o'ercast;
Amid blue glittering blades they go,
The horns they blow are loud of blast.
.....
Alfred Percival Graves
Boudoir Prophecies
One day in the Tuileries,
When a southwest Spanish breeze
Brought scandalous news of the Queen,
The fair proud Empress said,
.....
John Hay
One day in the Tuileries,
When a southwest Spanish breeze
Brought scandalous news of the Queen,
The fair proud Empress said,
.....
John Hay
Love Beyond Keeping
She had a box
with a million red bandanas for him.
She gave them to him
one by one or by thousands,
.....
Carl Sandburg
She had a box
with a million red bandanas for him.
She gave them to him
one by one or by thousands,
.....
Carl Sandburg
To England
There are no postage stamps that send letters
back to England three centuries ago,
no postage stamps that make letters
travel back until the grave hasn't been dug yet,
.....
Richard Brautigan
There are no postage stamps that send letters
back to England three centuries ago,
no postage stamps that make letters
travel back until the grave hasn't been dug yet,
.....
Richard Brautigan
Female Author
All day she plays at chess with the bones of the world:
Favored (while suddenly the rains begin
Beyond the window) she lies on cushions curled
And nibbles an occasional bonbon of sin.
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Sylvia Plath
All day she plays at chess with the bones of the world:
Favored (while suddenly the rains begin
Beyond the window) she lies on cushions curled
And nibbles an occasional bonbon of sin.
.....
Sylvia Plath
Ch 07 On The Effects Of Education Story 12
One year discord had arisen in a caravan among the walking portion and I also travelled on foot. To obtain justice we attacked each otherâ??s heads and faces, giving full vent to pugnacity and contention. I saw a man sitting in a camel litter and saying to his companion: â??How wonderful! A pawn of ivory travels across the chess-board and becomes a farzin, and the footmen of the Haj travelled across the whole desert only to become worse.â??
Tell on my part to the man-biting Haji
Who tears the skins of people with torments:
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Saadi Shirazi
One year discord had arisen in a caravan among the walking portion and I also travelled on foot. To obtain justice we attacked each otherâ??s heads and faces, giving full vent to pugnacity and contention. I saw a man sitting in a camel litter and saying to his companion: â??How wonderful! A pawn of ivory travels across the chess-board and becomes a farzin, and the footmen of the Haj travelled across the whole desert only to become worse.â??
Tell on my part to the man-biting Haji
Who tears the skins of people with torments:
.....
Saadi Shirazi
Chessmen
CHAFING on flags of ebony and pearl,
My paladins are waiting. Loops of smoke
Stoop slowly from the coffee-cups, and curl
In thin fantastic patterns down the room
.....
Kenneth Slessor
CHAFING on flags of ebony and pearl,
My paladins are waiting. Loops of smoke
Stoop slowly from the coffee-cups, and curl
In thin fantastic patterns down the room
.....
Kenneth Slessor
The Princess (part Vi)
My dream had never died or lived again.
As in some mystic middle state I lay;
Seeing I saw not, hearing not I heard:
Though, if I saw not, yet they told me all
.....
Alfred Lord Tennyson
My dream had never died or lived again.
As in some mystic middle state I lay;
Seeing I saw not, hearing not I heard:
Though, if I saw not, yet they told me all
.....
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alma; Or, The Progress Of The Mind. In Three Cantos. - Canto Iii.
Richard, who now was half asleep,
Roused, nor would longer silence keep;
And sense like this, in vocal breath,
Broke from his twofold hedge of teeth.
.....
Matthew Prior
Richard, who now was half asleep,
Roused, nor would longer silence keep;
And sense like this, in vocal breath,
Broke from his twofold hedge of teeth.
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Matthew Prior
The Cap And Bells; Or, The Jealousies: A Faery Tale - Unfinished.
I.
In midmost Ind, beside Hydaspes cool,
There stood, or hover'd, tremulous in the air,
.....
John Keats
I.
In midmost Ind, beside Hydaspes cool,
There stood, or hover'd, tremulous in the air,
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John Keats
Tam Lin
O I forbid you, maidens a',
That wear gowd on your hair,
To come or gae by Carterhaugh,
For young Tam Lin is there.
.....
Anonymous Americas
O I forbid you, maidens a',
That wear gowd on your hair,
To come or gae by Carterhaugh,
For young Tam Lin is there.
.....
Anonymous Americas
Sermon In A Churchyard
Let pious Damon take his seat,
With mincing step and languid smile,
And scatter from his 'kerchief sweet,
Sabaean odours o'er the aisle;
.....
Thomas Babbington Macaulay
Let pious Damon take his seat,
With mincing step and languid smile,
And scatter from his 'kerchief sweet,
Sabaean odours o'er the aisle;
.....
Thomas Babbington Macaulay
The Decembrist
'To this the pagan senate bears witness:
-- THESE DEEDS SHALL NEVER DIE! -- '
He lit his pipe and wrapped his cloak around
While some play chess nearby.
.....
Osip Emilevich Mandelstam
'To this the pagan senate bears witness:
-- THESE DEEDS SHALL NEVER DIE! -- '
He lit his pipe and wrapped his cloak around
While some play chess nearby.
.....
Osip Emilevich Mandelstam
Willie's Ladye
Willie has ta'en him o'er the faem,
He's wooed a wife, and brought her hame;
He's wooed her for her yellow hair,
But his mother wrought her meikle care;
.....
Andrew Lang
Willie has ta'en him o'er the faem,
He's wooed a wife, and brought her hame;
He's wooed her for her yellow hair,
But his mother wrought her meikle care;
.....
Andrew Lang
Grub First, Then Ethics
opos is, we could say to him: "Well,
we can read to ourselves, our use
of holy numbers would shock you, and a poet
may lamentâ??'Where is Telford
.....
Wystan Hugh Auden
opos is, we could say to him: "Well,
we can read to ourselves, our use
of holy numbers would shock you, and a poet
may lamentâ??'Where is Telford
.....
Wystan Hugh Auden
We Are As The Flute
We are as the flute, and the music in us is from thee;
we are as the mountain and the echo in us is from thee.
We are as pieces of chess engaged in victory and defeat:
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Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi
We are as the flute, and the music in us is from thee;
we are as the mountain and the echo in us is from thee.
We are as pieces of chess engaged in victory and defeat:
.....
Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi
The Return Of The Proconsul
Iâ??ve decided to return to the emperorâ??s court
once more I shall see if itâ??s possible to live there
I could stay here in this remote province
under the full sweet leaves of sycamores
.....
Zbigniew Herbert
Iâ??ve decided to return to the emperorâ??s court
once more I shall see if itâ??s possible to live there
I could stay here in this remote province
under the full sweet leaves of sycamores
.....
Zbigniew Herbert
The Coming Of Winter
_Stanzas from 'Onegin'_
Our Northern Winter's fickle Summer,
Than Southern Winter scarce more bland--
.....
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin
_Stanzas from 'Onegin'_
Our Northern Winter's fickle Summer,
Than Southern Winter scarce more bland--
.....
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin
To An Astrologer
Nay, seer, I do not doubt thy mystic lore,
Nor question that the tenor of my life,
Past, present and the future, is revealed
There in my horoscope. I do believe
.....
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Nay, seer, I do not doubt thy mystic lore,
Nor question that the tenor of my life,
Past, present and the future, is revealed
There in my horoscope. I do believe
.....
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
City Without A Name
1
Who will honor the city without a name
If so many are dead and others pan gold
Or sell arms in faraway countries?
.....
Czeslaw Milosz
1
Who will honor the city without a name
If so many are dead and others pan gold
Or sell arms in faraway countries?
.....
Czeslaw Milosz
Vida's Game Of Chess
TRANSLATED
ARMIES of box that sportively engage
And mimic real battles in their rage,
.....
Oliver Goldsmith
TRANSLATED
ARMIES of box that sportively engage
And mimic real battles in their rage,
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Oliver Goldsmith
The Canon Of Aughrim
You ask me of English honour, whether your Nation is just?
Justice for us is a word divine, a name we revere,
Alas, no more than a name, a thing laid by in the dust.
The world shall know it again, but not in this month or year.
.....
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
You ask me of English honour, whether your Nation is just?
Justice for us is a word divine, a name we revere,
Alas, no more than a name, a thing laid by in the dust.
The world shall know it again, but not in this month or year.
.....
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
Alternative Song For The Severd Head In "the King Of The Great Clock Tower"
SADDLE and ride, I heard a man say,
Out of Ben Bulben and Knocknarea,
i{What says the Clock in the Great Clock Tower?}
All those tragic characters ride
.....
William Butler Yeats
SADDLE and ride, I heard a man say,
Out of Ben Bulben and Knocknarea,
i{What says the Clock in the Great Clock Tower?}
All those tragic characters ride
.....
William Butler Yeats
To My Brother
We are the fruits
Of two diverse merged trees
Adhered to a single branch
And joined by the same roots
.....
Rose Marie Juan Austin
We are the fruits
Of two diverse merged trees
Adhered to a single branch
And joined by the same roots
.....
Rose Marie Juan Austin
Himself
The houseful that we were then, you could count us by the dozens,
The wonder was that sometimes the old walls wouldn't burst:
Herself (the Lord be good to her!), the aunts and rafts of cousins,
The young folks and the children,--but Himself came first.
.....
Theodosia Garrison
The houseful that we were then, you could count us by the dozens,
The wonder was that sometimes the old walls wouldn't burst:
Herself (the Lord be good to her!), the aunts and rafts of cousins,
The young folks and the children,--but Himself came first.
.....
Theodosia Garrison
Our Chess Games
They made you into a weapon
Then told you to find out peace
I killed a part of myself in heaven
To bring you living in one piece
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Lyna Salman
They made you into a weapon
Then told you to find out peace
I killed a part of myself in heaven
To bring you living in one piece
.....
Lyna Salman
Braggadocio
Chess playing Death
- no, the reverse
Death sitting decked out and self-satisfied
in black no mandatory top hat but a shroud
.....
Paul Cameron Brown
Chess playing Death
- no, the reverse
Death sitting decked out and self-satisfied
in black no mandatory top hat but a shroud
.....
Paul Cameron Brown
Addicted
Like a bug to the flames,
Like the sapling to the rays,
Like a chess player trying to find ways,
I got addicted to your little mind games...
.....
Siya Mulge
Like a bug to the flames,
Like the sapling to the rays,
Like a chess player trying to find ways,
I got addicted to your little mind games...
.....
Siya Mulge
Pondicherry
Chess pieces resting upon the jade mantle piece
see sampans move quietly
thru warm night,
rich bundles of bougainvillaea crowd market squares
.....
Paul Cameron Brown
Chess pieces resting upon the jade mantle piece
see sampans move quietly
thru warm night,
rich bundles of bougainvillaea crowd market squares
.....
Paul Cameron Brown