‘Reality’ by Rabia al-Basri

In love, nothing exists between heart and heart. Speech is born out of longing, True description from the real taste.…

12 years ago

‘Nothing’ by James Fenton

I take a jewel from a junk-shop tray And wish I had a love to buy it for. Nothing I…

12 years ago

‘The Starry Night’ by Anne Sexton

That does not keep me from having a terrible need of — shall I say the word — religion. Then…

12 years ago

‘Daffodils’ by William Wordsworth

I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw…

12 years ago

‘Unbreakable’ by Mirabai

Unbreakable, O Lord, Is the love That binds me to You: Like a diamond, It breaks the hammer that strikes…

12 years ago

‘1915’ by Robert Graves

I’ve watched the Seasons passing slow, so slow, In the fields between La Bassée and Bethune; Primroses and the first…

12 years ago

‘A une artiste’ by Louise Ackermann

Puisque les plus heureux ont des douleurs sans nombre, Puisque le sol est froid, puisque les cieux sont lourds, Puisque…

12 years ago

‘The parable of the old man and the young’ by Wilfred Owen

So Abram rose, and clave the wood, and went, And took the fire with him, and a knife. And as…

12 years ago

‘Love is not all’ by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain; Nor yet…

12 years ago

‘God Help the Wolf after Whom the Dogs Do Not Bark’ by Ted Hughes

There you met it – the mystery of hatred. After your billions of years in anonymous matter That was where…

12 years ago