Children of Fate, in the same breathCreated were they, Love and Death.Such fair creations ne’er were seen, Or here below, or in the heaven serene.The first, the source of happiness,The fount whence flows the greatest blissThat in the sea of being e’er is found;The last each sorrow gently lulls,Each harsh decree of Fate annuls.Fair child […]
This being human is a guest house.Every morning a new arrival A joy, a depression, meanness,Some momentary awareness comesAs an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them allEven if they’re a crowd of sorrows,Who violently sweep your houseEmpty of its furniture. Still treat each guest honorably,He may be clearing you outFor some new delight. The dark […]
To see a world in a grain of sand,And a heaven in a wild flower,Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,And eternity in an hour. A robin redbreast in a cagePuts all heaven in a rage. A dove-house fill’d with doves and pigeonsShudders hell thro’ all its regions.A dog starv’d at his master’s gatePredicts […]
When we two partedIn silence and tears,Half broken-hearted,To sever for years,Pale grew thy cheek and cold,Colder thy kiss;Truly that hour foretoldSorrow to this. The dew of the morningSank chill on my browIt felt like the warningOf what I feel now.Thy vows are all broken,And light is thy fame:I hear thy name spoken,And share in its […]
TURNING and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhereThe ceremony of innocence is drowned;The best lack all conviction, while the worstAre full of passionate intensity. Surely some revelation is at hand;Surely the Second Coming […]
Who includes diversity and is Nature, Who is the amplitude of the earth, and the coarseness and sexuality of the earth, and the great charity of the earth, and the equilibrium also, Who has not look’d forth from the windows the eyes for nothing, or whose brain held audience with messengers for nothing, Who contains […]
english translation by Peter Zollman Abandoned by my words I’m left alone or I’ve become an aimless overflown drifting river and in my murky mud I drag the flotsam washed up in the flood: old idioms exhausted vain pretences like broken hedgerows signpost maybe fences. Oh would the Master wisely grant the force that channels […]
When you set out on your journey to Ithaca, pray that the road is long, full of adventure, full of knowledge. The Lestrygonians and the Cyclops, the angry Poseidon — do not fear them: You will never find such as these on your path, if your thoughts remain lofty, if a fine emotion touches your […]
The Brain — is wider than the Sky —For — put them side by side —The one the other will containWith ease — and You — beside The Brain is deeper than the sea —For — hold them — Blue to Blue —The one the other will absorb —As Sponges — Buckets — do — […]
