Probably every generation sees itself as charged with remaking the world. Mine, however, knows it will not remake the world. But its task is perhaps even greater, for it consists in keeping the world from destroying itself. As the heir of a corrupt history that blends blighted revolutions, misguided techniques, dead gods and worn-out ideologies, […]
Along the Road by Robert Browning Hamilton
I walked a mile with Pleasure; She chattered all the way, But left me none the wiser For all she had to say. I walked a mile with Sorrow and ne’er a word said she; But oh, the things I learned from her When Sorrow walked with me. эвакуатор одесса ортопедические матрасы цены свадебные платья […]
Amazing Grace by John Newton
Amazing Grace! How sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me! I once was lost, but now am found Was blind, but now I see. ‘Twas Grace that taught my heart to fear, And Grace my fears relieved. How precious did that Grace appear The hour I first believed. Through many dangers, toils, and […]
An excerpt from Windy City by Carl Sandburg
Put the city up; tear the city down; put it up again; let us find a city. Let us remember the little violet-eyed man who gave all, praying, “Dig and dream, dream and hammer, till your city comes.” Every day the people sleep and the city dies; every day the people shake loose, awake and […]
An Old Man by Constantine Cavafy – (trans. by Manolis Aligizakis)
In the inner room of the noisy café an old man sits bent over a table; a newspaper before him, no companion beside him. And in the scorn of his miserable old age, he meditates how little he enjoyed the years when he had strength, the art of the word, and good looks. He knows […]
Angel by Sarah McLachlan
Spend all your time waiting For that second chance For a break that would make it okay There’s always some reason To feel not good enough And it’s hard at the end of the day I need some distraction Or a beautiful release Memories seep from my veins Let me be empty Oh and weightless […]
Annabelle Lee by Edgar Allen Poe
It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of Annabel Lee; And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me. I was a child and she was a child, […]
Another Reason Why I Don’t Keep A Gun In The House by Billy Collins
The neighbors’ dog will not stop barking. He is barking the same high, rhythmic bark that he barks every time they leave the house. They must switch him on on their way out. The neighbors’ dog will not stop barking. I close all the windows in the house and put on a Beethoven symphony full […]
Anthem by Leonard Cohen
The birds they sang at the break of day Start again I heard them say Don’t dwell on what has passed away or what is yet to be. Ah the wars they will be fought again The holy dove She will be caught again bought and sold and bought again the dove is never free. […]
As on a Day of Festival by Jan Richardson
Call it the waters of salvation or the garlands of gladness. Call it the grave-clothes falling away or call it the loosing of the chains. Call it what binds us together: fierce but fragile but fierce. Call it he will rejoice over you with gladness; call it he will renew you in his love; call […]
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