by Charles Baudelaire, William H. Crosby, Anna Balakian
The GiantessAt that time when Nature in her powerful ardor Conceived monstrous children each day, I would have loved living near a young giantess, As a voluptuous cat at the feet of a queen. I should like to have seen her body flower with her soul And grow freely in her dreadful games; And guess w...
The problem with reading poetry is that generally it is not something you simply read over once and then put it back on your shelf. Some of the older poetic forms, such as Dante, Homer, and Milton, you would do that, namely because the poetic form was used as a means of telling a story. Modern poetr...
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