The Story of Abou Hassan the Wag or the Sleeper Awakened part 1
Abou Hassan the Wag (Anonymous: ioth to 14th Century, A.D.)
The chief glory of Arabian prose literature is the celebrated collec-tion known to us as...
One Night part 4
A night-watchman loomed up in front of me. “I come,” I said, “to get you to see about a theft which has just been...
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...
