100 original Shakespearean love sonnets written with the aid of Shakespeare's memory and Saint Cecilia's inspiration.

Sensual, earthy love poems that formed the basis for the popular movie Il Postino, now in a beautiful gift book perfect for weddings, Valentine's Day, anniversaries, or just to say "I love you!" Charged with sensuality and passion, Pablo Neruda’s love poems caused a scandal when published anonymously in 1952. In later editions, these verses became the most celebrated of the Noble Prize winner’s oeuvre, captivating readers with earthbound images that reveal in gentle lingering lines an erotic re-imagining of the world through the prism of a lover’s body: "today our bodies became vast, they grew to the edge of the world / and rolled melting / into a single drop / of wax or meteor...." Written on the paradisal island of Capri, where Neruda "took refuge" in the arms of his lover Matilde Urrutia, Love Poems embraces the seascapes around them, saturating the images of endless shores and waves with a new, yearning eroticism. This wonderful book collects Neruda’s most passionate verses.

Pablo Neruda's two books - 100 Love Sonnets and Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair are kept in one book.

Reflections From The Heart is an anthology of a hundred short poems by three poets. These have all come from a crucible of lived experiences, which have left a deep impression on the poets’ minds, their hearts, and indeed, the core of their beings. They have, all three of them, finely honed sensibilities that have been tempered by all the vicissitudes that they, as individuals, have been through. And yet these speak to all, for they have a universality that makes every reader recognize the emotion that gave rise to them, and the truth that each one of them encapsulates. These poems are not, for the most part, “emotions recollected in tranquillity”. The feelings and emotions that they are imbued with remain within the skeins of the lines themselves, sometimes raw, sometimes a little distanced, but never, really, too far away from the heart. They cannot really be called “tranquil” poems, for the experiences that gave rise to them remain, and disturb even today. Bhaskar Bora’s poems have a power that comes from the circumstances that many of them were written in. A doctor with a flourishing practice, he found himself wheelchair bound after complications from a neurosurgical operation. In his despair, poetry, the writing of it, became a cathartic experience. His life story is moving, and the reader can empathise with the emotions embedded in his poems of that period. But his grit in creating a new profession for himself, that of a restaurateur, his thoughts and emotions on this journey are inspirational, especially as, through his poems we get a first-hand account of both his despair and his courage. His loss of mobility is paralleled by a soaring creativity. And yet, in some poems, there is also a beautiful sense of peace, possibly made more piquant by the prevailing circumstances of his life. This one, as he watches his daughters asleep at night: The princesses sleep in peace Faces glowing in moonlit rooms Duvets pulled, pillows spaced ... (Midnight: Bhaskar Bora) And yet, none of the three poets wallow in any kind of self-pity, nor are these an exercise in navel gazing. No, not at all. There is always, in all the poems, a sense of a wider world, in fact a greater entity, even, in some of them that raise them above the level of unremitting hopelessness to one of hope and a sense of journeying into a brighter future. I may not walk today Tomorrow I may run I may be in pain today Tomorrow is my turn (Tomorrow is my Turn: Bhaskar Bora) And of course, there is the cry of pain, moving and poignant, that pierces the reader’s mind. Pains seen, unseen, Voices heard, unheard As the silence screams Into a deafening noise Laughter, sorrow, anger, despair Melt together in the golden brew. (Dance of the Dead: Bhaskar Bora)

Life is full of tears and smiles.Our delights are shortlived whereas our tears leave a mark on our cheeks. These poems paint colourful pictures of our innermost emotions such as love and hate. Love that sparks with a smile and hate that howls into tears. Simple words have been used to paint a picture of the story behind poems where metaphors and similes play crucial roles to sharpen the image. The colours in the story are embedded in the form of conflicts and contrasts in the poems. Endings are at times sad and leave a mark on our memory whereas some poems end with the happiest colours of the emotions.In Blush of the Rainbow I present a kaleidoscopic view of life and love. Love is all we think about, all we do, and all we know. Love is much more than we can show.

Poems that recall the senseless loss of life and of innocence in Rwanda.

DigiCat presents to you a unique collection of the greatest classics of French literature: A History of French Literature François Rabelais: Gargantua and Pantagruel Molière: Tartuffe or the Hypocrite The Misanthrope The Miser The Imaginary Invalid The Impostures of Scapin... Jean Racine: Phaedra Pierre Corneille: The Cid Voltaire: Candide Zadig Micromegas The Huron A Philosophical Dictionary... Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Confessions Emile The Social Contract De Laclos: Dangerous Liaisons Stendhal‎: The Red and the Black The Charterhouse of Parma... Honoré de Balzac: Father Goriot Eugénie Grandet Lost Illusions The Lily of the Valley A Woman of Thirty Colonel Chabert The Magic Skin The Unknown Masterpiece... Victor Hugo: Les Misérables The Man Who Laughs The Hunchback of Notre-Dame Toilers of the Sea... George Sand: The Devil's Pool Mauprat Alexandre Dumas pere: The Three Musketeers Twenty Years After The Vicomte de Bragelonne Ten Years After Louise de la Valliere The Man in the Iron Mask The Count of Monte Cristo... Alexandre Dumas fils: The Lady with the Camellias Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary Salammbô Bouvard and Pécuchet Sentimental Education... Émile Zola: Thérèse Raquin The Fortune of the Rougons The Kill The Dram Shop A Love Episode Nana Piping Hot Germinal His Masterpiece The Earth The Dream The Human Beast Money The Downfall Doctor Pascal... Jules Verne: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Around the World in Eighty Days The Mysterious Island Journey to the Centre of the Earth From the Earth to the Moon Around the Moon In Search of the Castaways Guy de Maupassant: A Life Bel-Ami (The History of a Scoundrel) Mont Oriol Notre Coeur Pierre and Jean Strong as Death The Necklace The Horla Boul de Suif Two Friends Madame Tellier's Establishment... Charles Baudelaire: The Flowers of Evil Anatole France: The Revolt of the Angels The Gods are Athirst (The Gods Will Have Blood) Penguin Island Thaïs Gaston Leroux: The Phantom of the Opera The Mystery of the Yellow Room The Secret of the Night The Man with the Black Feather Marcel Proust: Swann's Way

A New York Times bestseller in hardcover, Pulitzer Prize winner Alice Walker’s We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For was called “stunningly insightful” and “a book that will inspire hope” by Publishers Weekly. Drawing equally on Walker’s spiritual grounding and her progressive political convictions, each chapter concludes with a recommended meditation to teach us patience, compassion, and forgiveness. We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For takes on some of the greatest challenges of our times and in it Walker encourages readers to take faith in the fact that, despite the daunting predicaments we find ourselves in, we are uniquely prepared to create positive change. The hardcover edition of We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For included a national tour that saw standing-room–only crowds and standing ovations. Walker’s clear vision and calm meditative voice—truly “a light in darkness”—has struck a deep chord among a large and devoted readership.

Like love itself, the poems in this book are spirited and profound; they are sappy and saccharine; they are spiteful and vindictive; and they are sexy and playful. Whispering Lunacies represents a journal of the authors love and loss over the years; through his love poems, this is his map of the heart. Everyone has a map. Everyone has experienced the Joy of Love, and the Despair of Loss. This map will take you along on the authors personal love journey - through sharp curves and open highway, past roadblocks and trainwrecks, and though all seasons and weather conditions. Eventually, we all come home. Along the way, the emotions and experiences we discover can only help us to better understand this crazy trip called love. Presented in a touching, hopeful, irreverent, funny and often heartbreaking style, Whispering Lunacies is a book which all readers, male and female, will relate to on some level. The Joy of Love, the despair of loss, commitment, dismissal, long-distance longings, unrequited love, unfulfilled passion, disappointment, ecstasy, jealousy, faithfulness, infidelity, adultery, good and bad and kinky sex, new love and old love, fond memories and failed marriages, first dates, bad dates, one-night stands, independence, co-dependency, hurt feelings, bruised egos, bruised bodies, amazing orgasms, beautiful images, foreign affairs, troubled times, strippers and secretaries, bonding and bondage, grand and gruesome collaborations, spiritual connections, religious experiences, double-crossing, messy endings, happy endings, platonic love, deceit, deception, blue skies and desert islands, puppy love, bear hugs, horseplay, gambling, baggage, psychological damage, mind games, stargazing, moonlight, sun worship, fetishes, fantasy, flings, candlelight, springtime, winter blues, whining, courting, seasides, lusty looks, nasty breakups, massages, stalkers, body art, sorcery, sordid pasts, vows, politics, co-habitation, car trouble, white lies, laughingand true love. Have you been on this journey? Does your map have similar signposts? The author relates: Hopefully, Whispering Lunacies will strike a chord in every readers heart, and encourage others to tell their own stories through poetry.