“Last Letter” by Ted Hughes
What happened that night? Your final night.Double, treble exposureOver everything. Late afternoon, Friday,My last sight of you alive.Burning your letter to me, in the ashtray,With that strange smile. Had I bungled your plan?Had it surprised me sooner than you purposed?Had I rushed it back to...Read More »
“Good Christian people, I am come hither to die, according to the law, for by the law I am judged to die, and therefore I will speak nothing against it. I come here only to die, and thus to yield myself humbly to the will of the King, my lord....Read More »
These famous love letters from King Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn are undated. They were found in the Vatican Library, possibly stolen from Anne and sent to the papacy during Henry VIII’s struggle for an annulment of his marriage to Katharine of Aragon. Though Henry argued for an annulment on...Read More »
The Queen of England and mother to Queen Mary, Catherine of Aragon (1485 – 1536) is best known as the first of the many wives of Henry VIII. Though he divorced her in 1533, Catherine remained devoted to Henry until her death in 1536, as this letter shows.
1535
My...Read More »
IMMORTAL BELOVED
The First Letter July 6, in the morningMy angel, my all, my very self – Only a few words today and at that with pencil (with yours) – Not till tomorrow will my lodgings be definitely determined upon – what a useless waste of time – Why this deep...Read More »
To Peter Abelard:
I have your picture in my room. I never pass by it without stopping to look at it; and yet when you were present with me, I scare ever cast my eyes upon it. If a picture which is but a mute representation of an object can give...Read More »
Sibilla Aleramo
e Dino Campana
Chiudo il tuo libro,
snodo le mie trecce,
o cuor selvaggio,
musico cuore…
con la tua vita intera
sei nei miei canti
come un addio a me.
Smarrivamo gli occhi negli stessi cieli,
meravigliati e violenti con stesso ritmo andavamo,
liberi singhiozzando, senza mai vederci,
né mai saperci, con notturni occhi.
Or nei tuoi...Read More »
Rakkaimpani maan päällä, olen tänään ikävöinyt sinua niin, että olen ollut vähällä kuolla tai tulla luoksesi. Molemmat kiusaukset olen nyt voittanut , en kyllä ilman tuntuvia tappioita. Sinä et ymmärrä, mitä on ikävöidä ja rakastaa niin, että järki meneeja elämä ja kuolema on samantekevää. Niin rakastan minä sinua. Soitin tänään...Read More »
All things uncomely and broken, all things worn out and old, The cry of a child by the roadway, the creak of a lumbering cart, The heavy steps of the ploughman, splashing the wintry mould, Are wronging your image that blossoms a rose in the deeps...Read More »
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