by Katherine Mansfield ALTHOUGH Bertha Young was thirty she still had moments like this when she wanted to run instead of walk, to take dancing steps on and off the […]
by Eunice de Souza Keep catsif you want to learn to cope withthe otherness of lovers.Otherness is not always neglect –Cats return to their litter trayswhen they need to.Don’t cuss out […]
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and heightMy soul can reach, when feeling out of […]
by Emily Dickinson I cannot live with You – It would be Life – And Life is over there – Behind the Shelf The Sexton keeps the Key to – Putting upOur Life – His Porcelain – Like a Cup – Discarded of […]
By Charles Lamb Sera tamen respexit Libertas. VIRGIL. A Clerk I was in London gay. O’KEEFE. If peradventure, Reader, it has been thy lot to waste the golden years of […]
BY JOHN KEATS Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;To bend with apples the […]
BY JOHN KEATS My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards […]
BY PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!Bird thou never wert,That from Heaven, or near it,Pourest thy full heartIn profuse strains of unpremeditated art. Higher still and higherFrom the […]
BY PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY IO wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn’s being,Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves deadAre driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing, Yellow, and black, […]
