Insomnia | A poem by Elizabeth Bishop, 1951
The moon in the bureau mirror looks out a million miles (and perhaps with pride, at herself, but she never,...
Poems
Rain | A poem by Raymond Carver, 1938-1988
Imogen Cunningham, The Unmade Bed, 1957 Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day...
Tired | A poem by Langston Hughes, 1931-41
Wang Nigde, 2009 I am so tired of waiting, Aren't you, For the world to become good And beautiful and...
The Book & the Movie: The Razor’s Edge (1944) / W. Somerset Maugham | Edmund Goulding (1946)
W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge . The Razor’s Edge is the first film version of W. Somerset Maugham’s 1944 novel. It was...
If you ever want to leave me | A poem by Halina Poświatowska, 1935-1967
Halina Poświatowska if you ever want to leave me do not forget about smiling you may forget your hat gloves...
Summer | A poem by César Vallejo, 1892-1938
Lyonel Feininger, On the Shore of our Sea, 1910 . Summer, I am leaving now. The submissive little hands of...
I know I am but summer to your heart | A poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Lou Bernstein, Coney Island, 1951 I know I am but summer to your heart, And not the full four seasons...
Sea Fever | A poem by John Masefield (1902)
I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a...
Blue Like a Desert | A poem by Joyce Mansour, 1928-86
Joyce Mansour Happy are the solitary onesThose who sow the sky in the avid sandThose who seek the living under...
Fairy Tale | A poem by Robert Desnos, 1900-1945
Many times upon a time There was a man who loved a woman. Many times upon a time There was...