"He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity which will be for time without end; for all things are of one kin and of one form ( Read more... )

FAINT GALAXYI come from ( Read more... )

That the world
is going
to end someday
does not concern
the wren:

it's time to
build your nest,
you build
your nest.

--Issa, translated by C.K. Williams

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YET, YET, YE DOWNCAST HOURS

1.

Yet, yet, ye downcast hours, I know ye also;
Weights of lead, how ye clog and cling at my ankles!
Earth to a chamber of mourning turns--I hear the o'erweening, mocking voice,
Matter is conqeuror--matter, triumphant only, continues onward.

2.Despairing cries float ceaselessly toward me ( Read more... )

WHOEVER YOU ARE, HOLDING ME NOW IN HANDWhoever you are, holding me now in hand ( Read more... )

ACROSS THE FIELDS....

Across the sky, the clouds move,
Across the fields, the wind,
Across the fields the lost child
Of my mother wanders.

Across the street, leaves blow,
Across the trees, birds cry--
Across the mountains, far away,
My home must be.

--Herman Hesse

LOOK DOWN FAIR MOON

Look down, fair moon, and bathe this scene;
Pour softly down night's nimbus floods, on faces ghastly, swollen, purple;
On the dead, on their backs with their arms toss'd wide,
Pour down your unstinted nimbus, sacred moon.

--Walt Whitman, 1865 ( Read more... )

XIV.

Here fate has willed me ere my time to sleep:
I am not dead, though changed my dwelling be;
While thou dost look and weep, I rest alone in thee,
Since lovers each the other's image keep.

--Michelangelo, epitaphs

THE CLOAK, THE BOAT, AND THE SHOES'What do you make so fair and bright ( Read more... )

THE SAD SHEPHERDThere was a man whom Sorrow named his friend ( Read more... )