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In an ancient grove near Antioch, Cipriano debates faith with a mysterious stranger, Lucifer. Meanwhile, noble rivals seek guidance on love from Lisandro for Justina's affections, amidst a city in turmoil. Love and faith entwine in a profound tale.
Phantasmagoria, Lewis Carroll's longest poem, was first published by Macmillan and Co., London, in 1869. Written in seven cantos, it tells the tale, in quintains, of a gentleman called Tibbets and his experience conversing with a phantom. This amusing "epic" takes us through their initial fear of each other, a fierce debate over the goings-on of the supernatural world, and finally, to a touching mutual admiration.Show book
This is a short collection of poetry from the pen and mind of Nyles Adams, most of which originally appeared in other Alexandria House works. Listen, absorb, and snap your fingers if you are so inclined.Show book
A magical wintery book for all ages. This 24-page eBook takes you and your loved ones on a snowy adventure. Navigate through your feelings of winter and connect to nature in a way that enlivens and reframes a gray winter day.Show book
Balthazar dreams of the perfect woman, one he can summon or dismiss at will on his computer screen. But as time passes, he becomes ensnared in his own creation, consumed by an obsession with this non-existent figure. As Balthazar spirals downward, losing everything from his identity to the use of his body, reduced to just his mind and the fingers tapping at the keyboard, she, in contrast, rises. She transforms into a modern-day Scheherazade, learning to command her prince. Baltha B was unaware,No more sits he upon the chair.The relics of his body’s ruin,Are the one last bastionOf his undoing.Death beckons when the hands they clap,To say, ‘Enough! Your time is up’Show book
The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives. Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives. But finding a starting point can be overwhelming, even off-putting, so in this series we offer up our Top 10 classic poets, who brim with talent and verse, on a range of subjects and themes that we can all enjoy. It is at first difficult to comprehend that the carnage and slaughter of War could yield some of our greatest poetry. Harder still that in four years of horror humanity was able to destroy and create on such a scale. These 10 poets and their verses speak for everyone. 1 - The Top 10 Poets - Died in WWI - An Introduction 2 - From My Diary July 1914 by Wilfred Owen 3 - Strange Meeting by Wilfred Owen 4 - Soldier's Dream by Wilfred Owen 5 - Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen 6 - Anthem For Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen 7 - 1914 by Rupert Brooke - Peace, Safety, The Dead, The Dead & The Soldier 8 - The Night Journey by Rupert Brooke 9 - The Old Vicarage of Grantchester by Rupert Brooke 10 - Libido by Rupert Brooke 11 - Desertion by Rupert Brooke 12 - No One Cares Less Than I (Bugle Call) by Edward Thomas 13 - A Private by Edward Thomas 14 - This Is No Case of Petty Right or Wrong by Edward Thomas 15 - These Things That Poets Said by Edward Thomas 16 - Adlestrop by Edward Thomas 17 - God by Isaac Rosenberg 18 - Break of Day in the Trenches by Isaac Rosenberg 19 - In the Trenches by Isaac Rosenberg 20 - Spring 1916 by Isaac Rosenberg 21 - Daughters of War by Isaac Rosenberg 22 - The Dying Patriot by James Elroy Flecker 23 - I Rose From Dreamless Hours by James Elroy Flecker 24 - No Coward's Song by James Elroy Flecker 25 - Destroyer of Ships, Men, Cities by James Elroy Flecker 26 - Don Juan in Hell by James Elroy Flecker 27 - Such Such Is Death by Charles Sorley 28 - A Call to Action by Charles Sorley 29 - When You See Millions Of The Mouthless Dead By Charles Sorley 30 - To Germany by Charles Sorley 31 - East Kennet Church At Evening by Charles Sorley 32 - An Attempt at a City Sunset by Francis Ledwidge 33 - Ireland by Francis Ledwidge 34 - Lament for the Poets, 1916 by Francis Ledwidge 35 - Growing Old by Francis Ledwidge 36 - A Soldier's Grave by Francis Ledwidge 37 - In Flanders Fields by John McCrae 38 - Disarmament by John McCrae 39 - Anarchy by John McCrae 40 - The Pilgrims by John McCrae 41 - A Song of Comfort by John McCrae 42 - Champagne 1914-1915 by Alan Seeger 43 - Paris by Alan Seeger 44 - Sonnet 14 by Alan Seeger 45 - Ode in Memory of the American Volunteers Fallen for France by Alan Seeger 46 - I Have a Rendezvous with Death by Alan Seeger 47 - The Battle at Saarburg by Alfred Lichtenstein 48 - Prayer Before Battle by Alfred Lichtenstein 49 - The Trip to the Mental Hospital by Alfred Lichtenstein 50 - Moonscape by Alfred Lichtenstein 51 - Soldiers' Songs by Alfred LichtensteinShow book
Finalist for the 2024 National Book Award for PoetryIn her new poetry collection, Evie Shockley mobilizes visual art, sound, and multilayered language to chart routes towards openings for the collective dreaming of a more capacious "we." How do we navigate between the urgency of our own becoming and the imperative insight that whoever we are, we are in relation to each other? Beginning with the visionary art of Black women like Alison Saar and Alma Thomas, Shockley's poems draw and forge a widening constellation of connections that help make visible the interdependence of everyone and everything on Earth.perchedi am black, comely,a girl on the cusp of desire.my dangling toes take the restthe rest of my body refuses. spine upright,my pose proposes anticipation. i poisein copper-colored tension, intent onmanifesting my soul in the discouraging world.under the rough eyes of others, i stiffen.if i must be hard, it will be as a tree, alivewith change. inside me, a love of beauty riseslike sap, sprouts from my scalpand stretches forth. i send out my song, an ariablue and feathered, and grow toward it,choirs bare, but soon to bud. i amblack and becoming. —after Alison Saar's Blue BirdShow book
