Humanism The definition of humanism is too complicated And as diverse as the universe But to me it is to disbelieve Rather than to have a belief upon Ideas and notions which lower my dignity And curtail my freedom ...
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Let Somebody Else Rest By Southern Sea Let somebody else rest by southern sea, Enjoying the paradise land, It’s northerly here, and fall of this year, I chose to be my girl-friend. I’ve carried here the memory sure Of my ...
Read More »A Poem by Meena Kandasamy: Apologies for living on
Apologies for living on I am living on because providing apologies is easy once— i was making choices with insanely safe ideas of fleeing-madly-and-flying-away i was a helpless girl against the brutal world of bottom-patting-and-breast-pinching i was craving for ...
Read More »A Poem by Victor Marie Hugo: A Sunset
A Sunset I love the evenings, passionless and fair, I love the evens, Whether old manor-fronts their ray with golden fulgence leavens, In numerous leafage bosomed close; Whether the mist in reefs of fire extend its reaches sheer, Or ...
Read More »A Poem by Anne Bronte: Views of Life
Views of Life When sinks my heart in hopeless gloom, And life can shew no joy for me; And I behold a yawning tomb, Where bowers and palaces should be; In vain you talk of morbid dreams; In vain ...
Read More »A Poem by Taslima Nasrin: Border
Border I’m going to move ahead. Behind me my whole family is calling, My child is pulling my sari-end, My husband stands blocking the door, But I will go. There’s nothing ahead but a river. I will cross. I ...
Read More »A poem by Emma Lazarus: Magnetism
Magnetism By the impulse of my will, By the red flame in my blood, By me nerves’ electric thrill, By the passion of my mood, My concentrated desire, My undying, desperate love, I ignore Fate, I defy her, Iron-hearted ...
Read More »A Poem by Dorothy Parker: Daylight Saving
Daylight Saving My answers are inadequate To those demanding day and date And ever set a tiny shock Through strangers asking what’s o’clock; Whose days are spent in whittling rhyme- What’s time to her, or she to Time? Dorothy ...
Read More »A poem by Emma Lazarus: Long Island Sound
Long Island Sound I see it as it looked one afternoon In August,-by a fresh soft breeze o’erblown. The swiftness of the tide, the light thereon, A far-off sail, white as a crescent moon. The shining waters with pale ...
Read More »A Poem by Dorothy Parker: D.G. Rossetti
D.G. Rossetti Dante Gabriel Rossetti Buried all of his libretti, Thought the matter over – then Went and dug them up again. Dorothy Parker
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حکایت امیر و غلامش کی نماز باره بود وانس عظیم داشت در نماز و مناجات با حق . میرشد محتاج گرمابه سحر بانگ زد سنقر هلا بردار سر طاس و مندیل و گل از التون بگیر تابه گرمابه ...
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مخصوص بودن یعقوب علیه السلام به چشیدن جام حق از روی یوسف و کشیدن بوی حق از بوی یوسف و حرمان برادران و غیر هم ازین هر دو . آنچ یعقوب از رخ یوسف بدید خاص او بد ...
Read More »A Poem by William Carlos Williams: Heel & Toe To The End
Heel & Toe To The End Gagarin says, in ecstasy, he could have gone on forever he floated at and sang and when he emerged from that one hundred eight minutes off the surface of the earth he was smiling. ...
Read More »سروده ای از مولانا جلال الدین محمد بلخی (مولوی) : قصه عشق صوفی بر سفرهٔ تهی
قصه عشق صوفی بر سفرهٔ تهی . صوفیی بر میخ روزی سفره دید چرخ میزد جامهها را میدرید بانگ میزد نک نوای بینوا قحطها و دردها را نک دوا چونک دود و شور او بسیار شد هر که ...
Read More »A Poem by Spike Milligan: Eurolove
Eurolove I cannot and I will not No, I cannot love you less Like the flower to the butterfly The corsage to the dress She turns my love to dust my destination empty my beliefs scattered: Diaspora! Who set ...
Read More »سروده ای از مولانا جلال الدین محمد بلخی (مولوی) : آنچنانک حق ز گوشت و استخوان
بیان آنک حق تعالی صورت ملوک را سبب مسخر کردن جباران کی مسخر حق نباشند ساخته است چنانک موسی علیه السلام باب صغیر ساخت بر ربض قدس جهت رکوع جباران بنی اسرائیل وقت در آمدن کی ادخلوا الباب ...
Read More »A poem by Oscar Wilde: Sonnet On Hearing The Dies Ira Sung In The Sistine Chapel
Sonnet On Hearing The Dies Ira Sung In The Sistine Chapel NAY, Lord, not thus! white lilies in the spring, Sad olive-groves, or silver-breasted dove, Teach me more clearly of Thy life and love Than terrors of red flame and ...
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حکمت آفریدن دوزخ آن جهان و زندان این جهان تا معبد متکبران باشد کی ائتیا طوعا او کرها . که لئیمان در جفا صافی شوند چون وفا بینند خود جافی شوند مسجد طاعاتشان پس دوزخست پایبند مرغ بیگانه ...
Read More »A Poem by Elizabeth Bishop: At the Fishhouses
At the Fishhouses Although it is a cold evening, down by one of the fishhouses an old man sits netting, his net, in the gloaming almost invisible, a dark purple-brown, and his shuttle worn and polished. The air smells so ...
Read More »سروده ای از سنایی غزنوی : مر جاه ترا بلندی جوزا باد
رباعیات سنایی غزنوی * مر جاه ترا بلندی جوزا باد درگاه ترا سیاست دریا باد رأی تو ز روشنی فلک سیما باد خورشید سعادت تو بر بالا باد سنایی غزنوی
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