Tag Archives: Poetry

1573: A Hundred Sundry Flowers

Posted on June 17, 2017 by corvusfugit

The full title of George Gascoigne’s 1573 collection of courtly poetry is A Hundredth Sundry Flowres bound up in one small Posie. Gathered partly (by translation) in the fyne outlandish Gardens of Euripides, Ovid, Petrarch, Ariosto and others; and partly … Continue reading →

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1918: Song of the Thunders

Posted on June 4, 2017 by corvusfugit

Song of the Thunders Sometimes I go about pitying myself while I am carried by the wind across the sky. —Chippewa (Ojibwe) song from The path on the rainbow, an anthology of songs and chants from the Indians of North … Continue reading →

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1750: Falsos silogismos de colores

Posted on May 24, 2017 by corvusfugit

The Mexican feminist, philosopher, and poet Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651 – 1695) wrote in Latin, Spanish, and Nahuatl. While a nun, she wrote prose, poetry, and drama on love, the status of women, and religion. When her … Continue reading →

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1550: A Book Is a Heart

Posted on May 13, 2017 by corvusfugit

“The Heart Book is regarded as the oldest Danish ballad manuscript. It is a collection of 83 love ballads compiled in the beginning of the 1550’s in the circle of the Court of King Christian III. Shown above is the … Continue reading →

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1933: Osip Mandlestam Writes his Last Poem

Posted on May 12, 2017 by corvusfugit

And I was alive in the blizzard of the blossoming pear And I was alive in the blizzard of the blossoming pear, Myself I stood in the storm of the bird-cherry tree. It was all leaflife and starshower, unerring, self-shattering … Continue reading →

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