Happy Mid-Autumn Festival to everyone who celebrates it. Go and light a lantern for me?

静夜思 (李白)
床 前 明 月 光
疑 是 地 上 霜
举 頭 望 明 月
低 頭 思 故 鄉

Thoughts in the Silent Night ~ Li Bai
The moonlight shines before my bed
I think it is from the frost.
I raise my head towards the moon,
Then look down with thought of my home.

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in time of daffodils(who know ( Read more... )

Rupert Chawner Brooke
( The Soldier )

War poets. Look them up.

April's over, and so is the International poetry month. Let's finish with something by the Bard.

Sonnet 116Let me not to the marriage of true minds ( Read more... )

Der Totentanz
The Dance of DeathThe warder looks down at the mid hour of night ( Read more... )

The title just sounds nice. There's no way to connect it to the actual content of this post.

An Ancient Gesture I thought, as I wiped my eyes on the corner of my apron ( Read more... )

Threnody
The south-wind brings
Life, sunshine, and desire,
And on every mount and meadow
Breathes aromatic fire,
But over the dead he has no power,
The lost, the lost he cannot restore,
And, looking over the hills, I mourn
The darling who shall not return.

( And on it goes... )

Soldiers have always had it rough.

Anthem for a Doomed Youth What passing-bells for these who die as cattle ( Read more... )

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
( Parts I - End )