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A modern translation of some of Lorca's works, including Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías.

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Singing Cafè The Guitar Journey Lola Malagueña Sonnet Serenata Preciosa and the Breeze The Quarrel The Gypsy Nun Ballad of the Black Sorrow Saint Gabriel Saint Michael Ballad of the Spanish Civil Guard Thamar and Amnon Sound of the Cuban Negroes Madrigal for the City of Santiago Nocturne of the Drowned Youth Dance of the Santiago Moon Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías Sonnet of the Sweet Complaint Wounds of Love The Beloved Sleeps on the Breast of the Poet Two Laws Sonnet Night-Song of the Andalusian Sailors Index of First Lines...

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LOVE LIVE FORGIVE is an exciting collection of exclusive interviews with many of the world’s most visionary musicians, artists, and authors.

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“In this journey of reaching for the sound, the music, the voice, we find the only path is through the onrush of love, and the full rush of forgiveness.” - Naseem Rakha, Author, Speaker & Storyteller...

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Artistry Love & Forgiveness Compassion & Healing Transformation Unity

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Human relations interest the author. The intricacies of life, the struggle for existence are all raw material for him. The last story Aa Paattu Nirthu (Stop that Song) is about a 5 year old girl who has an HIV infection, and is being boycotted by the inmates of the flats in the building. A really sad story....

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It was her 5th birthday. Waiting at the open door for her friends, who never came, she got tired and fell asleep. When her father came from office she was woken up. He took her in his arms and went to the decorated sitting room, where the birthday cake with her name inscribed on it was kept. The cone shaped caps she had bought for her friends to wear for the party were heaped on a table without any takers. The small carry home packets containing chocolates and balloons for the little guests lay slumbering on the table. He pulled a chair in front of the teapoy on which the cake was kept. The knife with a red ribbon tied on it was kept by the side of it. He took the knife and handed it over to Suji. Her mother Malathi switched on the tape recorder, and stood ready with the camera to click. The song Happy Birthday was heard from the tape recorder, like an obsolete message coming from a strange unknown world. Suji raised her head and asked her mother, ‘Mom, please stop that song.’ (Aa Paattu NIrthu...)...

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Stories: Karutha Thambratti Kalikkalam Oru Onathinte Katha Ayalkkaran Avasanathe Whistle Parichunadanavatha Nadan Swapnam Choochiyum Inambichiyum Valiyoru Album Vaikiyodunna Vandikal Engine Viplavamundakkunnu Kunhimathu Chirichukodirikkunnu Kathayilekku Nadannupoya Stree Theevandi Kayariyittillatha Penkutti Mattoru Vathil Oru Pappakkadakkariyumayi Pranayathilaya Katha Aa Paattu Nirthu....

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Modern translation of some of Lorca's work, including Casida of the Recumbent Woman.

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The Ballad of the Salt-Water Encounter From Moon Songs Dream Wish The Little Ballad of the Three Rivers Paso (The Images of the Passion) The Dawn A Singing Casida of the Recumbent Woman Gacela of the Flight Night of Insomniac Love Gacela of the Terrible Presence Sonnet of the Wreath of Roses The Poet asks his Love to write Song Pueblo Landscape The Prisoner Remanso, Final Song Index of First Lines...

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Modern translations of Lorca's works, including Romance Sonámbulo and The Unfaithful Wife.

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Ballad of the Small Plaza. Song of the Rider It’s True. Song of the Barren Orange Tree. The Moon Wakes. Farewell Romance de la Luna, Luna Romance Sonámbulo The Unfaithful Wife Gacela of Unexpected Love Casida de la Rosa Casida of the Dark Doves ‘Ay voz secreta del amor oscuro!’ Every Song...

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Further Selected Poems by this great Spanish poet, including his elegy for Lorca.

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Dedication (from The Man Watching, 1939) ‘Silence of metal sad and sonorous’ ‘My name is earth though I’m named Miguel’ Elegy for Federico García Lorca The Winds of the People The Olive Harvesters Song of the Soldier Husband Letter Last Song Each Time I Pass Carry Me to the Graveyard Grasses, Nettles Wretched Wars Lullaby of the Onion The Last Corner Casida of the Thirsty Man To Smile with the Sad Joy of the Olive-Tree Index of First Lines...

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His lecture Importancia histórica y artística del primitivo canto Andaluz llamado ‘Cante Jondo’ - 1922.

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Twenty poems of Rafael Alberti.

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Contents Naming The Dawn The Dead Angels What I Left, For You Song 8 Mauve-Moon-Of-Ice My Roe Deer Peñaranda de Duero For Federico García Lorca The Dove ‘If my voice dies on land’ ‘If I was born a farmhand’ Alba Of The Dark Night The Ballad Of What The Wind Said The Collegiate Angels The Angel Of Numbers The Bull Of Death Invitation To The Air The Cry Coming And Going Blue Index of First Lines...

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Seven spiritual poems by San Juan de la Cruz.

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Song of the Soul that Delights in Reaching the Supreme StateVerses on the Ecstasy of Deep Contemplation Song of the Soul in Intimate Communication of Union with God’s Love Spiritual Verses Song of the Soul that Delights in Knowing God through Faith A Gloss with Spiritual Meaning Verses of the Soul that Pines to See God Index of First Lines...

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From collections preceding The Gypsy Ballads.

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Weather Vane New Songs The Footsteps of la Siguiriya Cellar Song Juan Breva Earth Berceuse for a Mirror sleeping Variation (From Remansos) Running Towards River Bend Flash of Light Madrigals The Garden Print of the Garden II Song of the Boy with Seven Hearts The Dune Schematic Nocturne Little Song of Seville Adelina Walking By Lover Venus Two Moons of Evening Lucía Martínez Little Song of First Desire Prelude Index of First Lines...

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These songs can be read as poetry as the reader sees the changes that the writer goes through as he ages and what themes have entered into his conscience....

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The following is an excerpt from the title song that illustrates this. "Take me by my fortunes Show me right from wrong Make me dance a waltzing step Following my songs Spinning 'round my weary eyes Can only see what's inside Gentle Dreams and Simple Truths That time has taught me to hide." Songs by Keith Wayne Phillips ...

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Gentle Dreams and Simple Truths- Songs by Keith Wayne Phillips Contents- Page Introduction 9 Songs- 1) Troubled World 10 2) An Unfulfilled Dream 13 3) I Am Getting Older 15 4) A Question 17 5) I’ve Had Dreams 19 6) Be Alone 21 7) Francine’s Dreams 23 8) Feeding Time 26 9) I’ll Get By 29 10) To D.D. 31 Songs continued- Page 11) I Was Born In Summer 33 12) I Knew A Girl 36 13) A Look At Christmas 39 14) Poem- Song For Darkness 41 15) Early Thought 42 16) Walkin’ To San Francisco 43 17) Where Are You Now? 46 18) Still Wondrin’ Why 48 19) Poem- To Claire 50 20) It’s April 52 21) Road To Freedom 54 22) The Songwriter 56 23) I Sing My Songs For You 59 24) If You Want To 61 25) To Sing My Song 63 26) Candle 65 27) Try To Love 67 28) While The World Goes By 69 29) Some Say 72 30) She Is The Reason 74 31) If I Were American 76 32) I Feel So Happy 77 33) I’ve Seen The World 79 34) Oh Blues 82 35) Biggest And The Best 84 36) Poem- Return To Dust 86 37) Poem- Gather 88 38) Steady Job 92 40) Got The Blues 94 41) Tak...

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From his complete works, including Requiem for a Friend, and extracts from the Sonnets to Orpheus.

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Love-Song Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes Alcestis Archaic Torso of Apollo Buddha in Glory Requiem for a Friend Beloved From Sonnets to Orpheus A tree climbed there. O pure uprising! And it was almost a girl, and she came out of A god can do so. But tell me how a man Raise no gravestone. Only let the rose Praising, that’s it! As one ordered to praise, Only one who has raised the lyre But you now, you whom I knew like a flower O this is the creature that has never been. Will transformation. O long for the flame, Be in front of all parting, as though it were already See the flowers, those, so true to the earth, O fountain-mouth, you giver, you Mouth, Oh come and go. You, almost a child still, complete Quiet friend of many distances, feel World Was Strongest Star His Epitaph Index of First Lines...

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A Granadine poem of the 19th Century, divided into several gardens with scenes of song and dance, 1935

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Persian and Arabic Manuscripts, containing specimens of calligraphy (including one by Shah-Ma Jimud, dated A.H. 971, i.e. A.D. 1563), by the famous scribes Muliammed Alhusaini and Shah Murad, and decorated with 30 beautiful Persian Drawings, finely executed in vivid colours, heightened with gold and silver, representing portraits of shahs, horses, elephants (including white), wild beasts, ceremonies, processions, sporting scenes, lady swinging, all mounted on cardboard, within exquisitely designed borders of wild beasts, birds, flowers, c. executed in gold, silver and colours, bound in Oriental red morocco, ornamented with rich gold tooling. This superb Manuscript appears to have been arranged in 1776 for a French Officer named Major Polaire. Arabic prose and quotations from poets in Persian Verse Manuscript containing beautiful specimens of Oriental Caligrapihy, chiefly by the celebrated Scribe Mohammed AH, A.H. 1195 (a.d, 1780), and decoi-ated with 16 beautiful Persian Drawings, finely eoxcuted in vivid colours, heightened with gold and silver, representing views of palaces, horsemanship, concert of music, audience chamber, banque...

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Fifty-four major poems in verse translation.

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The Lovely Night May Song Welcome and Farewell The Rose-Bush on The Moor The Violet The Artist’s Evening Song New Love, New Life To Belinda ‘Holde Lili, warst so lang’ The Traveller’s Night Song I The Traveller’s Night Song II The Fisherman The ErlKing ‘Wer nie sein Brot’ Mignon ‘Heiss mich nicht redden,’ ‘Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt’ To The Moon (Final Version) Song Of The Spirits Over The Water To Charlotte Von Stein ‘Du bist mein und bist so zierlich,’ Measuring Time Anacreon’s Grave Roman Elegies I Roman Elegies II (First Version) Roman Elegies III Roman Elegies V Roman Elegies VII Roman Elegies XIII Roman Elegies XVII Roman Elegies XX The Nearness of the Beloved Venetian Epigrams I Venetian Epigrams XXVII Venetian Epigrams XCVI Venetian Epigrams CIII Permanence In Change Provision for the Journey Early Spring May Song Night Song The New Copernicus Ever and Everywhere March April Poetry and Form Blissful Yearning Night of the Full Moon At Midnight’s Hour A Trilogy of Passion From the Chinese-German Book of Hours and Seasons To the Full Moon Rising The Betrothed Legacy Index ...

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Using the inspiration of St. John of the Cross, the author uses a poem/song that he had written prior to his conversion to Roman Catholicism and then contemplates what each line might mean given his new found faith....

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"Love, or Charity is one of the key virtues of our faith. We should be praying each day that the light of Jesus may shine through us as we deal with the people that we encounter each day." "We must spend our days preparing our souls, and those of others, for eternity with God in Heaven. There is no other purpose, and therefore,for every task that we are asked to do in our daily lives, we must measure that task against this purpose."...

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Truth Is What We Are Seeking- Keith Wayne Phillips Preface- The Poem Truth Is What We Are Seeking Part One- The Calling Line 1- Truth is what we are seeking Line 2- Reaching out with open hands Line 3- Under guidance from each other Line 4- Thoughts we try to understand Line 5- Hands encompass solemn moments Line 6- In the grasp of Times' embrace Line 7- Sensing openness around us Line 8- Waiting for an eager face Part Two- The Commitment Line 9- How can we progress much further? Line 10- And discover all we know Line 11- Truth it seems has many answers Line 12- Waiting for the winds that blow Part Three- Working on the Virtues Line 13- Enter all with true compassion Line 14- Adding to your knowledge base Line 15- Reaching out to all around you Line 16- Empty thoughts of time and space Line 17- Seeking strength amongst each other Line 18- Enter now this place of peace Line 19- Excess thoughts will soon abandon Line 20- Kindred souls will find release Line 21- In the quiet of these moments Line 22- No one will be sure of grace Line 23- Give a gentle gift of knowledge Line 24- .Truth will find the hum...

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A further collection of the author's original poetry.

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Then With The Dead Two Mirror of Light World Does Not Wait All Mountain, No Eye Thesis What We Do Little Love Song Hazel The Gate Wait Bark Icon Not To By Now Night-Song On Judgement Day Mind Pass Fire Passing Alone Exchange OK I See At the End of the Night Transmute Bone, Ash, Gold Going Through Light Fate Love in the Mind Make. Do. With Truth The Whole Thing Return They Go Earth Write the Poem Temple Mind Real Phases Image No Self Work Eye Let Go After Orpheus You Ask When We Are Dead No Confession Your Dress On Either Side The Passage of Time Mythopoeic Enna Holly-Leaf Little Song Index of First Lines...

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A selection of poetry by Anacreon and others.

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-Anacreon Odd Sandals Prayer to Dionysius Water and Wine -Anonymous Thinking Mate -Asclepiades Tryphera -Bacchylides Happiness Ode to Hekate The Test of Virtue -Hedylus Let Us Drink -Ibycus No Rest for Love -Ion of Chios Untamable Child -Melanippides Wine after Water -Poseidippus Archianax -Praxilla Beware To Adonis You Look Great -Sappho Ode to Aphrodite Abandoned And as for Me But I Sleep Alone It Seems to Me Mountain wind To Her Lyre On Eros The Stars around The Moon Sweet Apple -Stesichorus Quinces and chariots -Timotheus Ambrosia Old Songs...

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Extensive selected poems in verse translation.

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From: Evening, 1912 Love At Tsarskoye Selo ‘Now the pillow’s,’ Reading Hamlet ‘Hands clasped under the dark veil.’ ‘Memory of sun ebbs from the heart.’ ‘A grey cloud in the sky overhead,’ Song of the Last Meeting ‘Drink my soul, as if with a straw’ ‘I’ve written down the words’ ‘I came here, in idleness.’White Night Evening Room Legend on An Unfinished Portrait Imitation of Innokenty Annensky ‘I pray to the ray from the window-pane’ ‘He loved three things, alive:’ From: Rosary, 1914 A Ride ‘I won’t beg for your love.’ Evening ‘Here we’re all drunkards and whores,’ ‘…And no-one came to meet me’ ‘My imagination, obediently,’ ‘We shall not sip from the same glass,’ ‘Always so many pleas from a lover!’ ‘For the last time, we met,’ ‘The high vault is bluer’ For Mikhail Lozinsky Memory’s Voice 8th November 1913 ‘Evening hours at the desk,’ ‘My heart beats smoothly, steadily,’ ‘As a silver, delicate strand’ Venice The Guest For Alexander Blok From: White Flock, 1917 Solitude ‘My voice is weak, but not my will’ ‘The sky’s blue lacquer grows dim,’ ‘Oh, and the day was cold,’ ‘There’s a secret border ...

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Selected Poems from the French 19th century including poems by Victor Hugo, Gérard de Nerval, Alfred de Musset, Théophile Gautier, Leconte de Lisle, Stéphane Mallarmé, Paul Verlaine, Jules Laforgue and Guillaume Apollinaire....

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Victor Hugo (1802-1885) Clair de Lune Since I have touched my lips… My Two Daughters Her feet were bare… Tomorrow, at Dawn Ave, Dea; moriturus te salutat June Nights To Théophile Gautier Gérard de Nerval (1808-1855) Gothic Song El Desdichado (The Disinherited) Myrtho Horus Delfica Artemis Golden Lines Alfred de Musset (1810-1857) Song Barbarina’s Song On a Dead Lady Sonnet Théophile Gautier (1811-1872) Sonnet The Hippopotamus Carmen Art Leconte de Lisle (1818-1894) The Jaguar’s Dream Stéphane Mallarmé (1844-1896) Sigh O so dear Sonnet Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) The piano kissed… In the Endless Parsifal The sky’s above the roof…. A Poor Young Shepherd Poetic Art Jules Laforgue (1860-1887) Pierrots Pierrot’s Speech Pierrot’s Melancholy Apothesosis Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) Annie Rhenish Night...