Renouncing The World

I know this world is a nightmare, A reverie gone wry, A weary dream of a mind dream-lost In an unconvincing sky. Should I not then renounce the world? Renounce the world? Not I.......

Books

The human factor Paul Johnson RELUCTANT REVOLUTIONARIES: ENGLISHMEN AND THE REVOLUTION OF 1688 by W. A. Speck OUP, f17.50, pp. 267 REVIVING THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION: REFLECTIONS......

Knowing Oneself

As for your soul, it interests me No more than some blue star Known to be there, but otherwise Too far, too far . . . All that I want in this actual world Is the actual man you......

Hanging On

Though life is worse than wearisome, A burden and a bore, I do my best to stay alive Because I trust no more In an after-life that I yet remember Having lived before. Minamoto......

Disaffection

Why should I . care for someone Who would not pause to spare So much as a glance to notice me, Not even if I were One who could pile up chicken's eggs Ten eggs by ten eggs......

Stragglers

The main text of wild geese, Lamenting, has flown by. A space; And then these stragglers Like a postscript on the sky. Priest Saigyo (1118-1190)......

Frustration

Would that I were living now Twenty years ahead When this hard-hearted bitch who will not Let me share her bed Anonymous (9th century)......