Advice to a Neighbour Girl ~ Yu Hsuan-Chi Translated from Chinese by Kenneth Rexroth and Chung Ling Afraid of the sunlight, You cover your face with your silk sleeves. Tired out with Spring melancholy, You neglect your makeup. It is easier to get priceless jewels Than to find a man with a true heart. Why wet […]
He Remembers Forgotten Beauty ~ William Butler Yeats When my arms wrap you round I press My heart upon the loveliness That has long faded from the world; The jewelled crowns that kings have hurled In shadowy pools, when armies fled; The love-tales wrought with silken thread By dreaming ladies upon cloth That has made […]
The “Happy Isles” Of Horace ~ Eugene Field Oh, come with me to the Happy Isles In the golden haze off yonder, Where the song of the sun-kissed breeze beguiles, And the ocean loves to wander. Fragrant the vines that mantle those hills, Proudly the fig rejoices; Merrily dance the virgin rills, Blending their myriad […]
What Kind of Times Are These ~ Adrienne Rich Note: This poem was written in 1995. Literature is timeless; how I wish this were not still relevant. There’s a place between two stands of trees where the grass grows uphill and the old revolutionary road breaks off into shadows near a meeting-house abandoned by the […]
A Fond Farewell ~ Sandra Fowler In memory of Walter Barzelay One day I sent some words to Tel Aviv. Perhaps, they whisper in the grasses yet. Good-bye to my last teacher and my best. A letter to be read over your grave. I left you in another century. There was no place for poetry […]
