POETRY

IF – Poetry by Rudyard Kipling

IF If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, if…

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WHEN YOU WILL NOT BE LONGER PART OF ME: William Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet” Act 3, Scene 2

WHEN YOU WILL NOT BE LONGER PART OF ME When you are no longer part of me I’ll want to…

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NOTHING: Poetry of Fernando Pessoa

NOTHING The angels were looking for her, found her at my side, there where her wings had guided. The angels…

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YOU ARE MY SLAVERY, YOU ARE MY FREEDOM – Poetry, by Nazim Hikmet

YOU ARE MY SLAVERY, YOU ARE MY FREEDOM You are my slave, you are my freedom, You are my flesh…

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THERE IS A PLEASURE IN THE UNEXPLORED WOODS – Poetry of George Gordon Byron

THERE IS A PLEASURE IN THE WOODS UNEXPLORED There is a pleasure in the unexplored forests, and ecstasy in deserted…

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FAREWELL – Poetry by Nazim Hikmet

The man says to the woman I love, and as if I hold in my palm heart, like broken glass,…

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UNITED COLORS OF THE NIGHT: Falling petals, light food for poppies

DROPS OF DARKNESS - Akiko Yosano: From cherry blossoms fall. So, in the gray dawn, stars detach from the sky.…

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LANGUAGES – Poetry by Bei Dao

LANGUAGES Many languages are spoken, now, in this world. Soaring words, meet, meet, collide, they create sparks, sometimes hate, sometimes…

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A MAN IN A WOMAN: Renaissance poetry of Michelangelo Buonarroti

A MAN IN A WOMAN   A man in a woman, even one god, for his mouth speaks, so I…

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THAT CONSTRAINT: Renaissance poetry, by Vittoria Colonna

THAT CONSTRAINT That constraint where my happy fate to the will of Heaven tied me, to my great sorrow was…

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