The Bhagavad-Gita. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. Chapter XIV KRISHNA: YET father will I open unto thee This wisdom of all wisdoms, uttermost, The which possessing, all My saints have passed To perfectness. On these high verities Reliant, rising into fellowship 5 With Me, they are not born again at birth Of Kalpas, nor …
Singapore, Raffles Hotel Entrance
Essays: English and American. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. Walking [1862] Henry David Thoreau I WISH to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom and wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil,—to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of …
Singapore, Hindu Temple Roof
Louis Untermeyer, ed. (1885–1977). Modern British Poetry. 1920. Rudyard Kipling. 1865– 48. Gunga Din YOU may talk o’ gin an’ beer When you’re quartered safe out ‘ere, An’ you’re sent to penny-fights an’ Aldershot it; But if it comes to slaughter You will do your work on water, 5 An’ you’ll …
Bengalaru, India, City Ruins 2
Nicholson & Lee, eds. The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. 1917. 348. The Tree of Knowledge By John Gray (b. 1893) FROM what meek jewel seed Did this tree spring? How first beat its new life in bleak abode Of virgin rock, strange metals for its food, Towards its last hewn mould, the bitter rood? …
Bengalaru, India, City Ruins 1
John Keats (1795–1821). The Poetical Works of John Keats. 1884. 28. On the Grasshopper and Cricket THE POETRY of earth is never dead: When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead; That is the Grasshopper’s—he takes …
Heidelberg Germany, River View to Town
Robert Browning (1812–1889). A Blot in the ’Scutcheon. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. Act I Scene I The Interior of a Lodge in Lord Tresham’s Park. Many Retainers crowded at the window, supposed to command a view of the entrance to his Mansion. GERARD, the Warrener, his back to a table on which are …
Heidelberg Germany, Street View to Mountain
T.S. Eliot (1888–1965). The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism. 1922. Blake I IF one follow Blake’s mind through the several stages of his poetic development it is impossible to regard him as a naïf, a wild man, a wild pet for the supercultivated. The strangeness is evaporated, the peculiarity is seen to be the peculiarity of …
Lufthansa Airlines, View Over Greenland
Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850–1894). The Master of Ballantrae. 1889. XI. The Journey in the Wilderness. WE made a prosperous voyage up that fine river of the Hudson, the weather grateful, the hills singularly beautified with the colours of the autumn. At Albany we had our residence at an inn, where I was not so blind and my lord …
Torrey Pines State Park, Afternoon Ocean
Charles Robert Darwin (1809–1882). The Voyage of the Beagle. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. Chapter XIII Chiloe—General Aspect—Boat Excursion—Native Indians—Castro—Tame Fox—Ascend San Pedro—Chonos Archipelago—Peninsula of Tres Montes—Granitic Range—Boat-wrecked Sailors—Low’s Harbour—Wild Potato—Formation of Peat—Myopotamus, Otter and Mice—Cheucau and Barking-bird—Opetiorhynchus—Singular Character of Ornithology—Petrels NOVEMBER 10th.—The Beagle sailed from Valparaiso to the south, for the purpose of …