Verlag: Skyline
Smoke without fire! No thrill of tongues licks up The offerings in the cup. Dead falls desire. Black smoke thou art, O altar-flame, that dost dismember, Devour the hearth, to leave no ember To warm this heart. I see her still - Adela dancing here Till dim gods did appear To work our will.
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Lines on The Mermaid Tavern by John Keats. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for August 15th, 2010.Zum Buch
There is one universal word which all babies instinctively sound in every language and that is ‘mama’. It produces a bond the like of which there is no other. Women are hard-wired by Nature to nurture and raise. Along the human chain of generations we would wish that every infant has depended on this woman, found shelter within her arms, food within her breast and the confidence to experience life and all its wonders from her love. Whether we understand it or recognise it, it is women who have shaped the course and journey of humanity. It is true, that mothering, the maternal instinct, comes in all shapes and shades and sizes. Some women find it difficult and others easy. Society with its norms and ever-readiness to make all conform, places pressures and difficulties in the paths of many. Families may not all be harbours of milk and honey but in this volume we take a different view. Here we journey with our classic poets from Christina Georgina Rossetti and Thomas Hardy to Frances W Harper and Kipling, not only the ways, the wonders and the women who take on the responsibility to raise children no matter the problems or dangers to themselves, but also the difficulties and sometimes desperate tragedies that motherhood can involve. We hope these poems inspire every generation to reach out and better themselves and those around. This is our tribute to mothers everywhere. 1 - 50 Shades of Mothers - An Introduction 2 - The Bravest Battle by Joaquin Miller 3 - The Hand That Rocks The Cradle by William Ross Wallace 4 - Mama's Mama by Anonymous 5 - Sonnets Are Full of Love by Christina Rossetti 6 - Mother O' Mine by Rudyard Kipling 7 - My Mother by Ann Taylor 8 - My Mother Dear by Samuel Lover 9 - To My Mother by Christina Georgina Rossetti 10 - My Mother by Francis Ledwidge 11 - To My Mother by Lucretia Maria Davidson 12 - Shall We Not Love Thee Mother Dear by Henry Williams Baker 13 - Mother's Eyes by Mary D B Hull 14 - My Mother's Hands by Anonymous 15 - I Am Your Mother by Daniel Sheehan 16 - The Bedtime Kiss by Anonymous 17 - To A Little Invisible Being by Anna Laetitia Barbauld 18 - Infant Sorrow by William Blake 19 - Babies Don't Keep - Anonymous 20 - Songs From Prince Lucifer II. Mother Song by Alfred Austin 21 - Untitled by Alice Carey 22 - The Modern Mother by Alice Meynell 23 - Mother's Treasures by Frances Ellen Watkins 24 - Monologue Of A Mother by D H Lawrence 25 - Mother & Daughter (Extract) by Augusta Weber 26 - The Jigalo's Son by Jean Graham 27 - Somebody's Mother by Anonymous 28 - To My Mother by Edgar Allan Poe 29 - To Mother by Marina Ivanova Tsvetaeva 30 - The Mother Of God by William Butler Yeats 31 - San Lorenzo Giustiniani's Mother by Alice Meynell 32 - To a Young Lady Whose Mother Was Insane by Lucretia Maria Davidson 33 - Mothers of Men by Edwin J Ellis 34 - The Slave Girl's Address to Her Mother by Sarah Louisa Forten 35 - The Farewell of a Virginia Slave Mother by John Greenleaf Whittier 36 - The Slave Mother by Frances E W Harper 37 - The Mother's Son by Rudyard Kipling 38 - Mother's Day Proclamation by Julia Ward Howe 39 - The Mother by May Herschel-Clarke 40 - The Young Mother by Katharine Tynan 41 - Mother and Poet by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 42 - Pensive on Her Dead Gazing by Walt Whitman 43 - On Receipt Of My Mother's Picture by William Cowper 44 - The Sailor's Mother by William Wordsworth 45 - The Old Arm Chair by Eliza Cook 46 - My Mother's Kiss by Frances E W Harper 47 - The Mother's Grave by Peter John Allen 48 - WhereZum Buch
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837 – 1909) was a poet, critic, novelist and playwright. He was born in London and educated at Eton and Oxford and was a contemporary of the Pre-Raphaelites.“Hymn to Proserpine” was published in 1866 in “Poems and Ballads,” Swinburne's first collection of poems which was a great success but which contained subjects that were, at the time, very controversial. Other poems in this collection are: “A Ballad of Dreamland,” “A Leave-Taking,” “At Parting,” “August,” “Genesis,” “Itylus,” “Rococo,” “Sapphics,” “An Interlude,” “The Nightingale,” “Three Faces,” and “Before the Mirror.”Zum Buch
Librivox volunteers bring you ten readings of Still, Still, with Thee by Harriet Beecher Stowe. This hymn written by the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin was the weekly poem for December 14 - 21, 2014. - Summary by RachelZum Buch
A mother’s love vs. a doctor’s oath. Oncologist Emma Blake has dedicated her life to finding a cure for a rare brain cancer. Twenty-five years ago, Emma’s childhood friend Kate died of glioblastoma, and Emma vowed to annihilate the deadly disease. Now, Kate’s father, Ned, is pushing her to work harder to fulfill that promise. When Emma discovers she’s pregnant, she’s torn between the needs of her family and the demands of her work. While Ned pressures her to do the unthinkable, her husband, Tim, decorates the nursery. Unwilling to abandon her research, Emma attempts to keep both sides of her life in balance. Emma knows she needs to reconcile her past with her present and walk the fine line between mother and physician. But Ned has a secret, and when Emma discovers what he’s been hiding, the foundation of her world cracks. Nowhere Near Goodbye is a story of family, failure, and second chances.Zum Buch
An innovative theatre piece combining music, voices and dance, with a text by Caryl Churchill and music by Orlando Gough. Hotel is in two parts: In the first, Eight Rooms, fourteen people - tourists, couples and business people - spend an ordinary night in a hotel. But they all occupy the same space, their stories overlapping and interweaving and creating an exhilarating collage of words, voices, music and choreographed movement. In the second, a dance piece entitled Two Nights, we see two distinct nights happening at the same time. Two people find different ways to disappear, while a diary found in another hotel room tells of one more extraordinary disappearance. 'Elusive, poetic, striking and substantial' - The Times 'Their pieces have the power to make you leave the theatre in an altered state' - ObserverZum Buch
