For we by conquest, of our soveraine might, And by eternall doome of Fate’s decree, Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright. -Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene. Book vii. Canto vi. St. 33 The first New Moon of 2018 will be in Capricorn, a sign that has become greatly...
Archaic Torso of Apollo by Rainer Maria Rilke (translated from German by Stephen Mitchell) We cannot know his legendary head with eyes like ripening fruit. And yet his torso is still suffused with brilliance from inside, like a lamp, in which his gaze, now turned to low, gleams in all its power....
The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower "The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees Is my destroyer. And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose My youth is bent...