Pindar Poems - Poems about Pindar

...CORINNA I come to sing of heroes' and heroines' courageous deeds.—Corinna translation by Michael R. Burch Mount Helicon, father of fair offspring, friend of the wayfarer, beloved of the Muses!—......

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...A former lyric to celebrate some bode A lyric to praise someone who is a goad A lyric in praise of the West Wind - an abode Of Autumn and frost; a lovely lyric that rowed Many poets to the highes......

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... "Dandylion" The guy was a Dandylion there was no denying it full of promises and making wishes residing over this new world poetically speaking, he shone ......

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...This is my modern English translation of Paul Valéry's poem “Le cimetière marin” (“The graveyard by the sea”). Valéry was buried in the seaside cemetery evoked in his best-known poem. From the vantag......

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...1. John Desmond Patrick Keegan 2. Alfred, Lord Tennyson 3. Sally Aline Mae Beller 4. Charles Edward A. Berry 5. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce 6. Béla Ferenc Dezso Blaskó 7. Joh......

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...“The songs are casual and careless in a satisfying way, like the used condom your latest lover left lying on your bedroom floor, a souvenir you’re not yet ready to dispose of.” Candy Cotton, Modern W......

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...Whether you have come to possess this compendium of doggerel confessions by chance or by choice, should you decide to venture beyond this page, I politely suggest you consider the contents to be noth......

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...PLATO EPIGRAM TRANSLATIONS These epitaphs and other epigrams have been ascribed to Plato... Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, But go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea. —Mic......

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...Athenian Epitaphs II These are ancient Greek epitaphs for lost family and friends, including dogs and other animals ... Now his voice is prisoned in the silent pathways of the night: his owne......

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...Ginsberg Writes the F- WORD FALLEN GINSBERG COINS “” INTO POETRY, Our college creative-writing professor Announced in 1972, to our class of hippie poets, Like me, who didn’t quite see The b......

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...Epitaph for a Palestinian Child by Michael R. Burch I lived as best I could, and then I died. Be careful where you step: the grave is wide. Autumn Conundrum by Michael R. Burch It's n......

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...Athenian Epitaphs Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea. —Michael R. Burch, after Plato Does my soul abide in heaven, or hell? Only th......

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...Dreaming of Elysian Fields Those dreams of Elysian Fields I so miss gentle days by the Okeanos flow Soothing nights with you in such bliss our souls flying with hearts in tow Long days s......

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