The Negro Speaks of Rivers
by Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
I’ve known rivers:
I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.
I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.
I looked [...]
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Wow! Some non-chessplayers have found this sight. My recent posting on former section 245(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act has drawn several comments. I would like to reply to these comments individually and create individual threads but WordPress will only allow me to add a comment to the end. So I am writing a [...]
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[For Bastille Day, something in French]
L’Albatros
by Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867)
Souvent pour s’amuser, les hommes d’
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Fair and True
by Nicholas Breton (1545?-1626)
Lovely kind, and kindly loving,
Such a mind were worth the moving;
Truly fair, and fairly true
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From Pent-Up Aching Rivers
by Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
[This is somewhat longer than most of the poems of the day and it's about sex, so you'll have to click to see the whole thing.]
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On an Ill-Managed House
by Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
Let me thy properties explain:
A rotten cabin dropping rain:
Chimneys, with scorn rejecting smoke;
Stools, tables, chairs, and bedsteads broke.
Here elements have lost their uses,
Air ripens not, nor earth produces:
In vain we make poor Sheelah toil,
Fire will not roast, nor water boil.
Through all the valleys, hills, and plains,
The Goddess Want, in [...]
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I recently asked Yasser Seirawan to reflect on the recent FIDE elections and he agreed. First, I asked “Looking back, do you think there’s anything the Right Move Campaign could have done differently that might have made a difference?”
His response:
“Goodness yes. Smile. In perfect hindsight I suppose we could say TRM made many mistakes. The [...]
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“The golden gift that Nature did thee give”
by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517-1547)
The golden gift that Nature did thee give,
To fasten friends and feed them at thy will,
With form and favour, taught me to believe,
How thou art made to shew her greatest skill.
Whose hidden virtues are not so unknown,
But lively dooms might gather at [...]
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A Saxon Epitath
by Majorie Lowrey Christie Pickthall (1883-1922)
The earth builds on the earth
Castles and towers;
The earth saith of the earth:
All shall be ours.
Yea, though they plant and reap
The rye and the corn,
Lo, they were bond to Sleep
Ere they were born.
Yea, [...]
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[I wrote the following about two weeks ago in response to this. Naturally, vdare.com being a rabid anti-immigration site didn't publish it so I am going to do so. Former section 245(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act allowed those people who were eligible for permanent resident status, e.g., based on a family relationship, but [...]
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