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It’s terrible! – all drip and listening.
splashing a branch, like lace, on the window,or whether perhaps there’s a witness.Choked there beneath its swollenburden – earth’s nostrils, and audibly,like August, far off in the distance,midnight, ripening slow with the fields.No sound. No one’s in hiding.Confirming its pure desolation,it returns to its game – slippingfrom roof, to gutter, slides on.I’ll moisten my lips,…
The murmurs ebb; onto the stage I enter.
To discover in the distant echoesWhat the coming years may hold in store.The nocturnal darkness with a thousandBinoculars is focused onto me.Take away this cup, O Abba Father,Everything is possible to Thee.I am fond of this Thy stubborn project,And to play my part I am content.But another drama is in progress,And, this once, O let…
In everything I seek to grasp
The daily choice, the daily task,The sentimental.To plumb the essence of the past,The first foundations,The crux, the roots, the inmost hearts,The explanations.And, puzzling out the weave of fate,Events observer,To live, feel, love and meditateAnd to discover.Oh, if my skill did but sufficeAfter a fashion,In eight lines I’d anatomizeThe parts of passion.I’d write of sins, forbidden…
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I keep thinking of times that are long past,
You had come from the steppeland Kursk Province,Of a none-too-rich mother the daughter.You were nice, you had many admirers.On that distant white night we were sittingOn your window-sill, looking from high onOn the phantom-like scene of the city.The street-lamps, like gauze butterflies fluttering,Had been touched by the chill of the morning.My soft words, as I…
Winter nears. Once more
will vanish under mud’s floor,to a child’s fretful grief.Huts will wake in the water,reflecting paths of smoke,circled by autumn’s tremorlovers meet by the fire to talk.Denizens of the harsh Northwhose roof is the clear air,‘In this sign conquer’, set forth,marks each unreachable lair.I love you, provincial haunts,off the map, the road, past the farms,the more…
I have allowed my family to scatter,
And once again an age-long lonelinessComes in to fill all nature and my heart.Alone this cottage shelters me and you:The wood is an unpeopled wildernessAnd ways and footpaths wear, as in the song.Weeds almost overgrowing each recess;And where we sit together by ourselvesThe log walls gaze upon us mournfully.We gave no promise to leap obstacles,We…
A ghost is roaming through the building,
Persistently intent on mischiefA goblin roams about the house.He gets into your way, he fusses,You hear his footsteps overhead,He tears the napkin off the tableAnd creeps in slippers to the bed.With feet unwiped he rushes headlongOn gusts of draught into the hallAnd whirls the curtain, like a dancer,Towards the ceiling, up the wall.Who is this…
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The frivolous can call me frivolous.
important things. And I insistthat no one knows better than I dothe Holy Fathers, or the Scriptures, or the Canons of the Councils.Whenever he was in doubt,whenever he had any ecclesiastical problem,Botaniatis consulted me, me first of all.But exiled here (may she be cursed, that viperIrini Doukaina) , and incredibly bored,it is not altogether unfitting…
Hasty and inexperienced creatures of the moment,
In the palaces of Eleusis and Phthia,Demeter and Thetis initiate good worksover high flames and heavy smoke.But Metaneira always bursts infrom the royal quarters, hair loose, terrified,and Peleus always gets scared and intervenes.
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he just didn’t know how to tell his mothera thing like that: Ptolemy’s demand,to guarantee their treaty, that she too go to Egyptand be held there as a hostage—a very humiliating, indecorous thing.And he would be about to speak yet always hesitate,would start to tell her yet always stop.But the magnificent woman understood him(she’d already…
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When I heard the terrible news, that Myris was dead,
going to the houses of Christians,especially during times of mourning or festivity.I stood in the corridor. I didn’t wantto go further inside because I noticedthat the relatives of the deceased looked at mewith obvious surprise and displeasure.They had him in a large roomand from the corner where I stoodI could catch a glimpse of it:…