DWELLING BY A STREAM Liu Zongyuan I had so long been troubled by official hat and robe That I am glad to be an exile here in this wild so...

The Master said, to learn and at due times to repeat what one has learned, is that not after all a pleasure? That friends should come to one from afar, is this not after all deligh...

(The fantasia of a fallen gentleman on a cold,bitter night.) Once, in finesse of fiddles found I ecstasy, In the flash of gold heels on the hard pavement. Now see I That warmth‘s ...

I‘ll paint you a rainbow to hang on the wall, To brighten your heart when the gray shadows fall. On a canvas of joy outlasting the years, With a soft brush of sweetness to dry all...

  If 如果 By Joseph Rudyard Kipling 吉卜林 If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself w...

What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. No time to stand beneath the boughs, And stare as long as sheep and cows. No time to see, when woods we pass...

The New Colossus Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land； Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a t...

SPRING Thomas Nash Spring, the sweet Spring, is the year‘s pleasant king; Then blooms each thing, then maids dance in a ring, Cold doth not sting, the pretty birds do sing, Cuckoo...

I like for you to be still: it is as through you are absent and you hear me from far away and my voice does not touch you It seems as through your eyes had flown away and ...

A Birthday By Christina Rossetti   My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a watered shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs bent with thickest fruit; M...