One Night part 3
Suddenly I saw, right before my eyes, the inn where we were staying. Trembling, I put the key in the lock. What awaited me...
One Night part 2
The darkness grew thicker and thicker. Unbroken chains of lights glowed along the thoroughfares. One belfry after another awoke and great bells began to...
One Night part 1
Emile Verhaeren (1855-1920)
Emile Verhaeren was one of the most widely read poets of modern Belgium. Influenced at first by the French Parnassiens and Natura-lists,...
The Legend of Pygmalion Part 6
VI. The Melody of Grief
A pale dawn hovered. With the first gleams the sea awoke, stretching its golden scales. Across the heavens as purple...
The Legend of Pygmalion Part 5
V. Fever
And because on one dazzling morning the light revealed her de-formation, Pygmalion foresaw her inevitable fate. Without wakening her, when night came he...
The Legend of Pygmalion Part 4
IV. Weariness
Thought Pygmalion, not daring to say it in words: “O godly form, despite your divine origin, you shall die. Worm and rot, instead...
The Legend of Pygmalion Part 3
III. The Initiation
Pygmalion became her master and her guide. This manner of teaching filled him with a confused intoxication, like to that of one...
The Legend of Pygmalion Part 2
II. The Miracle
Evening descended upon these virginal forms. But the white mass resisted the shadows, and when the walls were draped in mourning, these...
The Legend of Pygmalion Part 1
Peru
Ventura Garcia-Calderon (1890—1956)
Ventura Garcia-Calderon, born at Lima of an old Peruvian family, was one of the most distinguished critics and literary historians of South...
What Vasile Saw part 10
But what was it that the Son of God was bearing on his shoulders— something dark and heavy and enormously large.
His Cross! Christ too...
