World Poetry

For every moment in your life there is a poem. In Dancing by the Light of the Moon, we have a remarkable collection of over 250 best-loved poems in the English-speaking world. Allow Gyles Brandreth to be your guide to not only the wonders of poetry - and there are many - but also its practical uses in everyday life.

Seventeen iconic poems from World War One, including: Wilfred Owen's "Dulce et Deorum Est"; "In Flanders Fields" by John McRae; "Counter Attack" by Siegfried Sassoon; Rupert Brook's "The Soldier"; and many more that bring the horrors of the Great War vividly to life through the eyes of those living them.

A work that has inspired generations, this new edition of Letters to a Young Poet features a fresh translation of Rilke's 10 classic letters, along with the missing letters from the young poet himself.

Dante Alighieri is indisputably one of the world's greatest poets. His epic masterpiece, the Divine Comedy, has been frequently referred to as the supreme work of Italian literature and a staple in the Western Christian tradition. Now, you can explore Dante's life and masterwork with a truly gifted Catholic professor as your guide. In this 12-lecture series, Dante's Divine Comedy, Sr. Mary Clemente Davlin will take you through this timeless narrative that has so profoundly influenced Western history, literature, and the Christian faith.

Kahlil Gibran’s reflections on the wistful beauty, lofty majesty, and abiding peace of Eastern wisdom revolutionized Arab literature. This collection of dramatic poems uses the dialogue between age and youth as a platform to discuss deep subjects such as freedom, death, and the eternal soul. From “Of Life and Sorrow” to “Of Science and Knowledge”, Gibran’s vision transcends boundaries of religion and culture, finding beauty and wisdom in the universal struggles of everyday life.

Over four decades, Carolyn Forché's visionary work has reinvigorated poetry's power to awaken the reader. Her groundbreaking poems have been testimonies, inquiries, and wonderments. They daringly map a territory where poetry asserts our inexhaustible responsibility to each other. Her first new collection in 17 years, In the Lateness of the World is a tenebrous book of crossings, of migrations across oceans and borders but also between the present and the past, life and death.

In the war a great volume of poetry was written, produced and published in books, periodicals, newspapers or letters back to home. We often think of war as a necessity. We fight for a more just and better world. We often fail. But in our poets we gain a truth and a morality that shocks us, consoles us and holds our values to the light. In this volume we hear poems from the front, from home, from soldiers, from auxiliaries, from friend and from foe.

Set during the fierce Trojan War, Troilus and Criseyde is the poignant tale of love won and lost. The beautiful Criseyde becomes the object of desire for Troilus, the son of King Priam, and he is able to win her affection through the machinations of his uncle, Pandarus. They experience a brief time of bliss together, but despite their vows of faithfulness, they are soon separated by the fortunes of war.

The Völsunga saga is a legendary saga, a late 13th-century poetic rendition in Old Norse of the origin and decline of the Völsung clan (including the story of Sigurd and Brynhild and the destruction of the Burgundians). It is one of the most famous legendary sagas and an example of a "heroic saga" that deals with Germanic heroic legend. The saga covers topics including the quarrel between Sigi and Skaði, a huge family tree of great kings and powerful conquerors and the quest led by Sigmund and Sinfjǫtli to save princess Signý from the evil king Siggeir.

While others often respond to the cares and concerns of our day through anger, And: The Restorative Power of Love in an Either/Or World attempts to offer a response steeped in the heartbeat of Love. This book is an invitation to encounter the lived experience and philosophical musings of another as a human, not as a project or agenda to conquer. Without apology, it embraces humanity and all the emotions, back stories, and history that come along with who we are and who Love is inviting us to be.

This book is a great book that will uplift your spirit, and make you smile. If you have lost a close love one that was close and near, then this book will bring back several memories and may make you smile plus drop a tear. Be happy till the end, so start reading this book from the very start till the very end. Now " Let's begin ! " Kiss!

This book is a great book that tells the readers about my life. It's starts from very young to present years. You'll learn a lot about my life and some of my belief's. Enjoy the ride, but hold on!

First, thank you God for blessing me with a gift to uplift in poetry. I love helping others! Amazon best seller over one hundred times on the kindle. Author Kevin L. Timmons was born in Bartow, Florida, and raised in Polk County a native of Haines City, Florida. His first love was football while growing up as an adolescence, and he learned several ways of being very successful in becoming one of the best in the Nation in football. One of the college elite football players of all times, NFL camp rookie and veteran Beacon NFL camp in Tennessee. IFL- International Football League player while ...

First, thank you God for blessing me with my gift so I can uplift! To my Mother Ada Timmons a secretary and Father Arrie Davis a carpenter, auto mechanic, gun smith and jack of all trades! I appreciate all my readers that read my book, so thanks for taking your time. The University of West Alabama and University of Phoenix in Tampa, FL. Thank you! I want to thank all of my friends and family members that have influenced me along the way. To my special loved one’s Mr. Emanuel Lippett, Ada Lippett, Ronnie Lippett retired NFL New England Patriots football team and family for being a huge ...

First, thank you God for blessing me with my gift so I can uplift! To my Mother Ada Timmons a secretary and Father Arrie Davis a carpenter, auto mechanic, gun smith and jack of all trades! I appreciate all my readers that read my book, so thanks for taking your time. The University of West Alabama and University of Phoenix in Tampa, FL. Thank you! I want to thank all of my friends and family members that have influenced me along the way. To my special loved one’s Mr. Emanuel Lippett, Ada Lippett, Ronnie Lippett retired NFL New England Patriots football team and family for being a huge ...

First, thank you God for blessing me with a gift to uplift in poetry. I love helping others! Amazon best seller over one hundred times on the kindle. Author Kevin L. Timmons was born in Bartow, Florida, and raised in Polk County a native of Haines City, Florida. His first love was football while growing up as an adolescence, and he learned several ways of being very successful in becoming one of the best in the Nation in football. One of the college elite football players of all times, NFL camp rookie and veteran Beacon NFL camp in Tennessee. IFL- International Football League player while ...

Together, Hafez, a giant of world literature; Jahan Malek Khatun, an eloquent princess; and Obayd-e Zakani, a dissolute satirist, represent one of the most remarkable literary flowerings of any era. Here Dick Davis, an award-winning poet widely considered "our finest translator of Persian poetry" (The Times Literary Supplement), presents a diverse selection of some of the best poems by these world-renowned authors and shows us the spiritual and secular aspects of love, in varieties embracing every aspect of the human heart.

The Only Worlds We Know is a nuanced and tactile look at both sobriety and what comes after. Patient meditations on loss and the land where the people we love live and are also buried.

Poems that starts quoting Auden, another time has other lives to live, and Les Murray, art can contain only one idea, to thresh the cardinal points of life, based on the power of love. From the poems cabezón Steps emphasizes the idea of ​​changing the world, trying, and the yoke of oxen, small contrition, the liver of Prometheus, of empathy, of travel, to dream of Scipio and the voice of silence.

In Forester's latest book of prose, he explores the multi-faceted tapestry of life in Maine, a state where nature's grandeur and human resilience interweave to create a landscape as complex as it is captivating. From the salty embrace of its jagged coastline to the earthy soul of its inland farms, Maine offers a sanctuary for those who find poetry in the everyday, the extraordinary, and everything in-between.