When I lose you, someday,
how will you sleep without me
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: French, imagery, love poetry, Rainer Maria Rilke, sleep, translation, W. D. Snodgrass
When I lose you, someday,
how will you sleep without me
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: French, imagery, love poetry, Rainer Maria Rilke, sleep, translation, W. D. Snodgrass
Loneliness like a good, old friend visits my house to pour wine in the evening. And we sit together, waiting for the moon, and for your face to sparkle in every shadow. – Faiz Ahmed Faiz Postscript: Maudlin, as some good love poetry is. You can read more Faiz that we’ve run on this site […]
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: Faiz Ahmed Faiz, loneliness, love poetry, translation, Urdu
It’s all the same to the sun what it rises on —
On the windows in houses in Georgian squares;
On bees swarming to blitz suburban gardens;
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: aubade, Irish, Michael Longley, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, translation