Kobayashi Issa (1763 – 1828) was a Japanese famous poet and lay Buddhist priest of the Jodo Shinshu sect or the Pure Land sect. He is better known as simply “Issa”, a pen name meaning ...
TANAH TANDUS – T.S. ELIOT UNTUK EZRA POUND IL MIGLIOR FABBRO II. Sebuah Permainan Catur Kursi tempat perempuan itu duduk, laksana singgasana dipoles mengkilap, Berpendar pada marmer, di mana cerminnya Ditopang penyangga berhiaskan sulur-sulur berbuah ...
Konon, jika kita bertanya secara sembarang kepada orang Rusia siapa pemuisi yang paling mereka gemari, maka pada banyak jawaban kita akan menemukan nama Alexander Pushkin. Konon juga, para pelajar Rusia mempelajari puisi-puisi Pushkin dengan perasaan ...
Sainspuisi.com, Guardian– Salah satu kebiasaan yang dilakukan oleh para pegiat puisi yaitu mereka senantiasa memeriahkan sebuah hari besar atau momen-momen khusus ke dalam berbagai penggubahan puisi. Bagi mereka, menggubah puisi mungkin lebih menyenangkan ketimbang menyalakan ...
I Saw a Stable by Mary Coleridge I saw a stable, low and very bare, A little child in a manger. The oxen knew Him, had Him in their care, To men He was a ...
THE CHRISTMAS ROSE by Cecil Day Lewis What is the flower that blooms each year In flowerless days, Making a little blaze On the bleak earth, giving my heart some cheer? Harsh the sky and ...
Christmas by Benjamin The bells of waiting Advent ring, The Tortoise stove is lit again And lamp-oil light across the night Has caught the streaks of winter rain In many a stained-glass window sheen From ...
Christmas Carol by Paul L Dunbar Ring out, ye bells! All Nature swells With gladness at the wondrous story,— The world was lorn, But Christ is born To change our sadness into glory. Sing, earthlings, ...
The Oxen by THOMAS HARDY Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock. “Now they are all on their knees,” An elder said as we sat in a flock By the embers in hearthside ease. We ...
A Visit from St. Nicholas BY CLEMENT CLARKE MOORE ‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney ...
