‘Last night’ by Jalalud’din Rumi

Last night I begged the Wise One to tell me the secret of the world. Gently, gently he whispered, “Be…

11 years ago

‘Le Mistral Gagnant’ by Renaud

A m’asseoir sur un banc cinq minutes avec toi Et regarder les gens tant qu’y en a Te parler du…

11 years ago

‘Minority’ by Imtiaz Dharker

I was born a foreigner. I carried on from there to become a foreigner everywhere I went, even in the…

11 years ago

‘On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer’ by John Keats

Much have I travell’d in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; Round many western islands…

11 years ago

‘Ariel’ by Sylvia Plath

Stasis in darkness. Then the substanceless blue Pour of tor and distances. God’s lioness, How one we grow, Pivot of…

11 years ago

‘L’Albatros’ by Charles Baudelaire

Souvent, pour s’amuser, les hommes d’équipage Prennent des albatros, vastes oiseaux des mers, Qui suivent, indolents compagnons de voyage, Le…

11 years ago

‘The Swan’ by Rainer Maria Rilke (Translated by Robert Bly)

This clumsy living that moves lumbering as if in ropes through what is not done, reminds us of the awkward…

11 years ago

‘To a young girl’ by W. B. Yeats

MY dear, my dear, I know More than another What makes your heart beat so; Not even your own mother…

11 years ago

The Unknown Citizen’ by W. H. Auden

(To JS/07 M 378 This Marble Monument Is Erected by the State) He was found by the Bureau of Statistics…

11 years ago

‘The good morrow’ by John Donne

I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we loved? were we not weaned till then? But…

11 years ago