Against too many writers of science fiction Why did you lure us on like this, Light-year on light-year, through the abyss, Building (as though we cared for size!) Empires that…
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Hard light bathed them-a whole nation of eyeless men, Dark bipeds not aware how they were maimed. A long Process, clearly, a slow curse,Drained through centuries, left them thus. At…
Arise my body, my small body, we have striven Enough, and He is merciful; we are forgiven. Arise small body, puppet-like and pale, and go, White as the bed-clothes into…
There is a wildness still in England that will not feed In cages; it shrinks away from the touch of the trainer’s hand,Easy to kill, not easy to tame. It…
Angelic minds, they say, by simple intelligence Behold the Forms of nature. They discern Unerringly the Archtypes, all the verities Which mortals lack or indirectly learn. Transparent in primordial truth,…
Among the hills a meteoriteLies huge; and moss has overgrown,And wind and rain with touches lightMade soft, the contours of the stone. Thus easily can Earth digestA cinder of sidereal…
By and by Man will try To get out into the sky, Sailing far beyond the air From Down and Here to Up and There. Stars and sky, sky and…
No. It’s an impudent falsehood. Men did not Invariably think the newer way Prosaicmad, inelegant, or what not. Was the first pointed arch esteemed a blot Upon the church? Did…
All this is flashy rhetoric about loving you.I never had a selfless thought since I was born.I am mercenary and self-seeking through and through:I want God, you, all friends, merely…
I thought there would be a grave beauty, a sunset splendourIn being the last of one’s kind: a topmost moment as one watched The huge wave curving over Atlantis, the…