Since There Is No Escape by Sara Teasdale
Since there is no escape, since at the end My body will be utterly destroyed, This hand I love as I have loved a friend, This body I tended, wept with and enjoyed; Since there is no escape even for…
January 8, 2023
Why Do I Love the Silence of the Moon, John Barlas (1860-1914)
Why I love the silence of the moon, a sweetly dark, beautifuly written, describes some fundamental attributes of the moon, patient and silent companion of the insomniac lover’s misfortunes but also of his fleeting moments of joy. The moon, according…
Sorrow by Algernon C. Swinburne (1837 – 1909)
When sadness subjugates us, the rest of the universe is excluded. Algernon Swinburne will not attempt to comfort us, let alone return us to our everyday cosmos. Sadness, one of Swinburne’s most brilliant poems, does not prophesy a better future,…
”Requiem” Poem by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
Requiem is a gothic poem by Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson, published in the 1890 anthology: Underwoods. It is a short, simple, and intensely musical poem. The interesting thing about Requiem, apart from being one of Robert Louis Stevenson’s best…
