Still, still the secret presses,
The nearing clouds draw down,
The crimson morning flames into
The fopperies of the town.
Within, without, the idle earth
Stars weave eternal rings,

Resolved To Be Loved

© Abraham Cowley

'Tis true, I'have lov'd already three or four,
And shall three or four hundred more;
I'll love each fair one that I see,
Till I find one at last that shall love me.

On Flaxman's Penelope

© William Cowper

The suitors sinned, but with a fair excuse,
Whom all this elegance might well seduce;
Nor can our censure on the husband fall,
Who, for a wife so lovely, slew them all.

All The World's A Stage

© William Shakespeare

All the world's a stage,

And all the men and women merely players;

In love, aside from sipping the wine of timelessness,
nothing else exists.
There is no reason for living except for giving one's life.
I said, "First I know you, then I die."
He said, "For the one who knows Me, there is no dying."

Patient Mercy Jones

© James Thomas Fields

Let us venerate the bones
Of patient Mercy Jones,
Who lies underneath these stones.

Uninterrupted Poetry

© Paul Eluard

From the sea to the source

From mountain to plain

A love song

© Yehudah HaLevi

"Do you see over my shoulders falling,
Snake-like ringlets waving free?
Have no fear, for they are twisted
To allure you unto me."

Ortus

© Ezra Pound

How have I laboured?

How have I not laboured

The Wonder-Working Magician - Act I

TO THE MEMORY OF
SHELLEY,
WHOSE ADMIRATION FOR
"THE LIGHT AND ODOUR OF THE FLOWERY AND STARRY AUTOS"
IS THE HIGHEST TRIBUTE TO THE BEAUTY OF
CALDERON'S POETRY,

The Lady Of La Garaye - Part II

A FIRST walk after sickness: the sweet breeze
That murmurs welcome in the bending trees,
When the cold shadowy foe of life departs,
And the warm blood flows freely through our hearts:

Nocturne

Sleep that like the couched dove

Broods o'er the weary eye,

Five Lines

© Nazim Hikmet

To overcome lies in the heart, in the streets, in the books
from the lullabies of the mothers
to the news report that the speaker reads,
understanding, my love, what a great joy it is,
to understand what is gone and what is on the way.