Rain ~ Po Chu-i Translated from Chinese by Arthur Waley Since I lived a stranger in the City of Hsun-yang Hour by hour bitter rain has poured. On few days has the dark sky cleared; In listless sleep I have spent much time. The lake has widened till it almost joins the sky; The clouds […]
In the Seven Woods ~ William Butler Yeats I have heard the pigeons of the Seven Woods Make their faint thunder, and the garden bees Hum in the lime-tree flowers; and put away The unavailing outcries and the old bitterness That empty the heart. I have forgot awhile Tara uprooted, and new commonness Upon the […]
To A Young Girl ~ William Butler Yeats My dear, my dear, I know More than another What makes your heart beat so; Not even your own mother Can know it as I know, Who broke my heart for her When the wild thought, That she denies And has forgot, Set all her blood astir […]
From “Gitanjali” Rabindranath Tagore Light, my light, the world-filling light, the eye-kissing light, heart-sweetening light! Ah, the light dances, my darling, at the centre of my life; the light strikes, my darling, the chords of my love; the sky opens, the wind runs wild, laughter passes over the earth. The butterflies spread their sails on […]
Night After Night ~Anonymous, Sattasai 5.45 Night after night in the rainy season I’d push my way through village mud to your door the mud is no different today but how cold you have grown how ungrateful (Image by Richard Seaman, richard-seaman.com)
