• Joseph Addison

    Hope

    Our lives, discoloured with our present woes, May still grow white and shine with happier hours. So the pure limped stream, when foul with stains Of rushing torrents and descending rains, Works itself clear, and as it runs refines, till by degrees the floating mirror shines; Reflects each flower that…

  • William Blake

    Ah! Sun-Flower

    William Blake (1757–1827). AH, Sun-flower! weary of time, Who countest the steps of the sun; Seeking after that sweet golden clime, Where the traveller’s journey is done; Where the Youth pined away with desire,       And the pale Virgin shrouded in snow, Arise from their graves, and aspire…

  • William Blake

    The Garden of Love

    I went to the Garden of Love, And I saw what I never had seen: A Chapel was built in the midst, Where I used to play on the green. And the gates of this Chapel were shut, And „Thou shalt not.“ Writ over the door; So I turn’d to…

  • L'sJourney

    .surrender.

    tap into the well all the tears the heartache and past selves release bring them to this reservoir and bathe under moonlight with compassion and gentleness as guides helping to rid what is no longer needed L’sJourney Source Poem and Image: http://www.lsjourney.com/ (With kind permission)

  • William Blake

    A Dream

    Once a dream did weave a shade O’er my Angel-guarded bed, That an emmet lost its way Where on grass methought I lay. Troubled, ’wilder’d, and forlorn,       Dark, benighted, travel-worn, Over many a tangled spray, All heart-broke I heard her say: ‘O, my children! do they cry?…

  • Anna Akhmatova

    I Taught Myself To Live Simply

    I taught myself to live simply and wisely, to look at the sky and pray to God, and to wander long before evening to tire my superfluous worries. When the burdocks rustle in the ravine and the yellow-red rowanberry cluster droops I compose happy verses about life’s decay, decay and…

  • William Blake

    Night

    The sun descending in the west, The evening star does shine; The birds are silent in their nest, And I must seek for mine. The moon, like a flower, In heaven’s high bower, With silent delight Sits and smiles on the night. Farewell, green fields and happy groves, Where flocks…

  • Anna Akhmatova

    You Will Hear Thunder

    You will hear thunder and remember me, And think: she wanted storms. The rim Of the sky will be the colour of hard crimson, And your heart, as it was then, will be on fire. That day in Moscow, it will all come true, when, for the last time, I…

  • Alfred Lord Tennyson

    A farewell

    Flow down, cold rivulet, to the sea, Thy tribute wave deliver: No more by thee my steps shall be, For ever and for ever. Flow, softly flow, by lawn and lea, A rivulet then a river: Nowhere by thee my steps shall be For ever and for ever. But here…