Kobayashi Issa, “Mosquito at my ear”
Mosquito at my ear (from Modern American Poetry) Kobayashi Issa (tr. Robert Hass) Mosquito at my ear– does it think I’m deaf? Comment: “About ...
Mosquito at my ear (from Modern American Poetry) Kobayashi Issa (tr. Robert Hass) Mosquito at my ear– does it think I’m deaf? Comment: “About ...
Musée des Beaux Arts W.H. Auden About suffering they were never wrong, The old Masters: how well they understood Its human position: how it takes place While so...
The Fall of Rome (from poets.org) W.H. Auden The piers are pummelled by the waves; In a lonely field the rain Lashes an abandoned train; Outlaws fill the mounta...
Epitaph On A Tyrant W.H. Auden Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after, And the poetry he invented was easy to understand; He knew human folly like the bac...