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Reality and Dreams
Reality and Dreams In normal lives realities and dreams are mixed And, through their interactions, memories are fixed. Most happiness is transient and brief; Troubles both follow and precede relief […]
Misunderstandings
Misunderstandings Larch trees, (I did not know this fact before!), Change colour in the Autumn since they are Deciduous conifers. It’s very strange How something I had thought for years — that all Pines are true evergreens — should be disproved By […]
Northern Star
Northern Star How insignificant you seem, Pale Northern Star!. And yet the constellations pace Their patterned gait Around your chosen dwelling-place As though they deem You Monarch of […]
Imprisoned
Imprisoned Pure phœnix of true love, endungeoned in or hearts; Locked in by jealous bolts; by iron hatreds barred; Chained by mistrust close to the coals of envy’s fire […]
Zamenhof's Esperanto (1887)
Zamenhof’s Esperanto (1887) “Esperanto estas plej bona lingvo por kompreneco internacia“ (“Esperanto is the best language for international understanding”). […]
Life's Mirror
Life’s Mirror Our future is only our past Reflected, as though in a glass But made mysterious by Time’s Refractions through vague surface-dross That mars its lustre and distorts The details of its imaged shapes. When […]
Engravings
Engravings Queen Mary Tudor once declared her heart Would be found graved with CALAIS when she died Because, through unwise policies of State, She lost that Channel guard-post to the French. When my time comes to die, perhaps that same Part will be found […]
Leviathan
Leviathan Who can read the mind of a whale; Or who interpret its strange voice Which tunes its throbbing notes to suit The deep sea-currents’ telegraph And reach the furthest cetan ear?. Who can learn the ways of […]
Happiness
Happiness If happiness were perfect on this Earth, How dreadful It would be!. For surely we would find, As we approached The closure f our lives, That death would be […]