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Christina Rossetti: Mother Country

Mother CountryMarch 1868.Oh what is that country And where can it be, Not mine own country, But dearer far to me? Yet mine own country, If I one day may see Its spices and cedars, Its…

The Hungry Stones: VII

by Rabindranath Tagore VIVII And, though the tide was full, there was a pause as though the rising waters would not break into foam but remain suspended for ever. There were no outspoken…

Maitrayana-Brahmaya-Upanishad: Sixth Prapathaka

Sixth Prapatraka1. He (the Self) bears the Self in two ways, as he who is Prâna (breath), and as he who is Aditya (the sun). Therefore there are two paths for him, within and without, and…

Amy Lowell: Battledore and Shuttlecock

Battledore and ShuttlecockThe shuttlecock soars upward In a parabola of whiteness, Turns, And sinks to a perfect arc. Plat! the battledore strikes it, And it rises again, Without haste,…

Holocaust Reparations

Looted gold makes its way across half a century to compensate slave laborers by Tasha Vincent This article was posted on March 15, 1999. Holocaust survivor Estelle Sapir displays a photo of…

Four Poems of Departure

Four Poems of DepartureLight rain is on the light dust. The willows of the inn-yard Will be going greener and greener, But you, Sir, had better take wine ere your departure, For you will have…

John Keats: To Hope

by JohnKeatsTo * * * *Imitation of SpenserTo Hope When by my solitary hearth I sit, And hateful thoughts enwrap my soul in gloom; When no fair dreams before my "mind's eye" flit, And…