Tag Archives: Words

FOR THE FIRST TIME

Posted on October 4, 2019 by David Scanlon

Can you imagine that blessed time, Just before our dawn light, when, For the first time, her magic appeared; Radiant yet translucently uttered.

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THE POEM WITHOUT MUSIC

Posted on April 2, 2019 by José Hierro

Wherever you are, you will know why I am saying what I say now. Only you alone can understand it, interpret it, my message being very simple: pureness, some life, some truths which are never forgotten; even if life, the … Continue reading →

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TO A POET A THOUSAND YEARS HENCE

Posted on January 4, 2019 by James Elroy Flecker

I who am dead a thousand years ………And wrote this sweet archaic song, Send you my words for messengers ………The way I shall not pass along.

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OFFERING HER SONGS – Number 15

Posted on September 16, 2018 by Rabindranath Tagore

My joy is to sing .         poems to the World. When her song is deep .         I sit and hear her voice. .                  In a world of working things, .                  where everyone lives but me, .                  my heart finds her … Continue reading →

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POETRY

Posted on September 16, 2018 by Marcel Proust

À Gustave L. de W. <Lovers. Happy Lovers> (La Fontaine) Love rises hearts as does the perfume of roses! It is wonderful to know a heart filled with love, And see through to her source which never closes And will … Continue reading →

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