The newest addition to this section is a paraphrase of Donne's Death Be Not Proud into Latin and Greek. Advent is a link to a translation of one of Christiana Rossetti's poems. Here's Donne's Batter My heart . One of Elizabeth Barret Browning's lesser known late poems is The Best Thing in the World . If you've only read the Sonnets or excerpts from Aurora Leigh - this poem may surprise you? Try it! Its deliciously bitter-sweet and ironic! Want to read the Heron and Crow? Its a translation of a Korean poem tho I should note that I was working from an English paraphrase. The HEIAN Poetry page has the original text of several poems in Romaji, a papraphrase from Japanese into English, notes on vocabulary, and where feasible, translations into Greek and Latin. ENJOY!
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