A Defence of Poetry - Part III
A poem is the very image of life expressed in its eternal truth. There is this difference between a story and a poem, that a story is a...
Beauty & Truth
Part Four: Time and Eternity X I DIED for beauty, but was scarce Adjusted in the tomb, When one who died for truth was lain In an...
Oration on the Dignity of Man - Part I
Most esteemed Fathers, I have read in the ancient writings of the Arabians that Abdala the Saracen on being asked what, on this stage, so...
A Defence of Poetry - Part I
ACCORDING to one mode of regarding those two classes of mental action, which are called reason and imagination, the former may be...
Love's Bright Star
Take a look at the night sky. See the vast emptiness of its darkness. Now think that although the world may look scary and threatening...
A Poet to his Beloved
They say that when we fall in love it is forever, and perhaps that is true. Even though we change who we are through time, through our...