Section: «Poems»

Verse (ancient Greek ὁ στίχος — row, structure), a term in versification used in several meanings: artistic speech organized by division into rhythmically commensurate segments; poetry in the narrow sense; in particular, it implies the properties of versification of a particular tradition ("antique verse", "Akhmatova's verse", etc.); a line of poetic text organized according to a certain rhythmic pattern ("My uncle of the most honest rules").

Genesis Bk Xix

(ll. 1167-1180) And after Cainan Mahalaleel possessed the landand treasure many a year. The prince lived five-and-sixtywinters, and begat a son. An..

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Genesis Bk Xxi

l. 1327) Then our Lord said unto Noah:(ll. 1328-1355) "I give thee My pledge, dearest of men, that thoumayest go thy way, thou and the seed of every..

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Genesis Bk Iii

(ll. 135-143) The day departed, hasting over the dwellings ofearth. And after the gleaming light the Lord, our maker, thruston the first of evenings...

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Genesis Bk Vii

(ll. 322-336) The other fiends who waged so fierce a war with Godlay wrapped in flames. They suffer torment, hot and surgingflame in the midst of..

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Genesis Bk Vi

(ll. 246-260) The Holy Lord, All-wielding God, with mighty handhad wrought ten angel-orders in whom He trusted well, that theywould do Him service..

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Genesis Bk Ii

ll. 82-91) The citizens of heaven, the home of glory, dweltagain in concord. Strife was at an end among the angels, discordand dissension, when those..

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Genesis Bk Iv

ll. 169-191) ....It did not seem good to the Lord of heaven thatAdam should longer be alone as warden and keeper of this newParadise. Wherefore the..

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Genesis Bk I

I(ll. 1-28) Right is it that we praise the King of heaven, theLord of hosts, and love Him with all our hearts. For He is greatin power, the Source of..

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Caedmon's Hymn

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All Pervading Consciousness

And as His Essence all the world pervadesNaught in Creation is, save this alone.Upon the waters has He fixed His Throne,This earth suspended in the..

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Why Was Adam

'Why was Adam driven from the garden?'The pupil asked his master. 'His heart was hardenedWith images, a hundred bonds that clutter the earthChained..

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The Triumph Of The Soul

Joy! Joy! I triumph! Now no more I knowMyself as simply me. I burn with loveUnto myself, and bury me in love.The centre is within me and its..

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Intoxicated By The Wine Of Love

Intoxicated by the Wine of Love.From each a mystic silence Love demands.What do all seek so earnestly? 'Tis Love.What do they whisper to each other?..

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Invocation

We are busy with the luxury of things.Their number and multiple faces bringTo us confusion we call knowledge. Say:God created the world, pinned night..

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Looking For Your Own Face

Your face is neither infinite nor ephemeral.You can never see your own face,only a reflection, not the face itself.So you sigh in front of mirrorsand..

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In The Dead Of Night

In the dead of night, a Sufi began to weep.He said, 'This world is like a closed coffin, in whichWe are shut and in which, through our ignorance,We..

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Mystic Silence

From each, Love demands a mystic silence.What do all seek so earnestly? Tis Love.Love is the subject of their inmost thoughts,In Love no longer..

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Illahi Nama (Book Of God)

In the Book of God (Ilahi-nama) 'Attar framed his mystical teachings in various stories that a caliph tells his six sons, who are kings themselves..

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Conference Of The Birds

'Attar began The Conference of the Birds (Mantiq al-tair) with an invocation praising the holy Creator in which he suggested that one must live a..

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WING-BEA

In some last inventory, I'll have lost a seasonthrough the occlusionof summer by another hemisphere.Going therethe winter tolls twiceacross the year...

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A BOWL OF PEARS

Swarthy as oilcloth and as squatas Sancho Panzawearing a beret's little stalkthe pearitself suggests the application of some rigourthe finest..

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IN DEPARTING LIGHT

My mother all of ninety has to be tied upin her wheelchair, but still she leans far out of it sideways;she juts there brokenly,able to cutwith the..

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HARBOUR DUSK

She and I came wandering there through an empty park,and we laid our hands on a stone parapet'sfading life. Before us, across the oily, aubergine..

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TWILIGHT

These long starsonstalksthat have grown upearlyand are likewaterplants and that standin allthe pools and the lakeevenat the brimofthe dark..

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The Fishermen

There comes trudging back across the home paddocks of the baypushing its waywaist-deep in the trembling seed-heads of the lightthe trawler, with flat..

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