Showing Results 1 - 3 of 3
Public Access
Text
All things I can endure, save one.
The bare, blank room where is no sun;
The parcelled hours; the pallet hard;
The dreary faces here within;
The outer women’s cold regard;
The Pastor’s iterated “sin”…
Contributor:
Amy Levy
Places:
London, United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland (London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1884
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Dost thou sleep, my brother Abel,
That thou art so wonderfully fair?
Never have I seen thee
As beautiful before.
Does the beauty lie in my ax,
Or is it, perhaps, in thee?
Before the day is done,
Spe…
Contributor:
Itzik Manger
Places:
London, United Kingdom
Date:
1941
Categories:
Public Access
Text
In his malodorous brain what slugs and mire,
Lanthorned in his oblique eyes, guttering burned!
His body lodged a rat where men nursed souls.
The world flashed grape-green eyes of a foiled cat
To him…
Contributor:
Isaac Rosenberg
Places:
Cape Town, South Africa
Date:
1916