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Latin Phrases & Words Still Used Today

a contrario= from the opposite a falsis principiis proficisci = to set forth from false principles ab antiquo = from ancient times ab epistulis = from the letters absolvo = I acquit ad hoc = to this ad infinitum = … Continue reading →

Auguries Of Innocence By William Blake

To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour A Robin Red breast in a Cage Puts all Heaven in … Continue reading →

Autobiography By Louis Macniece

My father made the walls resound, He wore his collar the wrong way round. When I was five the black dreamscame; Nothing after was quite the same. When I woke they did not care; Nobody, nobody was there. In my … Continue reading →

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This is a cool website – this really works 75% of people will get a tax rebate Fee 7% & VAT Fill in the online form or text your name & address to 087 9040472 & we’ll post you the … Continue reading →

Mirror in February By Thomas Kinsella

The day dawns, with scent of must and rain, Of opened soil, dark trees, dry bedroom air. Under the fading lamp, half dressed – my brain Idling on some compulsive fantasy – I towel my shaven jaw and stop, and … Continue reading →

Another September By Thomas Kinsella

Dreams fled away, this country bedroom, raw With the touch of dawn, wrapped in a minor peace, Hears through an open window the garden draw Long pitch black breaths , lay bear its apple trees, Ripe pear trees, brambles, windfall-sweethened … Continue reading →

War Profit Litany By Allen Ginsberg

To Ezra Pound These are the names of the companies that have made money from this war nineteenhundredsixtyeight Annodomini fourthousand eighty Hebraic These are the Corporations who have profited by merchan- dising skinburning phosphorous or shells fragmented to thousands of … Continue reading →

The Sunset By Percy Bysshe Shelley

There late was One within whose subtle being, As light and wind within some delicate cloud That fades amid the blue noon’s burning sky, Genius and death contended. None may know The sweetness of the joy which made his breath … Continue reading →

The Female Vagrant By William Wordsworth

By Derwent’s side my Father’s cottage stood, (The Woman thus her artless story told) One field, a flock, and what the neighbouring flood Supplied, to him were more than mines of gold. Light was my sleep; my days in transport … Continue reading →

Nemesis By Arthur Henry Adams

All things must fade. There is for cities tall The same tomorrow as for daffodils: Time’s wind, that casts the seed, the petal spills. Grim London’s ruined arches yet shall fall Back to the arms of Earth. A quiet pall … Continue reading →