Epigram Poems
Epigrams by Michael R. Burch (I)
by Michael R. Burch
This page contains epigrams, epitaphs, quotes, quips, jokes, puns, parodies, haiku, limericks and wordplay penned by Michael R. Burch along with a number of epitaphs, elegies, translations, interpretations and paraphrases ...
BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: PROSE EPIGRAMS
• Elevate your words, not their volume. Rain grows flowers, not thunder.—Rumi, translation by Michael R. Burch
• No wind is favorable to the man who lacks direction.—Seneca the Younger, translation by Michael R. Burch
• Little sparks may ignite great Infernos.—Dante, translation by Michael R. Burch
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Epigrams by Michael Burch (II)
by Michael R. Burch
These are epigrams and epigram translations by Michael R. Burch, along with puns, quotes, quips, etc.
Pablo Neruda Translations
You can crop all the flowers but you cannot detain spring.
—Pablo Neruda, loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Every Day You Play (Excerpt)
by Pablo Neruda
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Martial translations to modern English
by Michael R. Burch
These are modern English translations of Martial epigrams and poems, some with the original Latin.
You ask me why I've sent you no new verses?
There might be reverses.
—Martial, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
You ask me to recite my poems to you?
I know how you'll 'recite' them, if I do.
—Martial, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
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Epigrams by Michael R. Burch
by Michael R. Burch
This page contains epigrams, epitaphs, quotes, quips, jokes, puns, parodies, haiku, limericks and wordplay penned by Michael R. Burch along with a number of epitaphs, elegies, translations, interpretations and paraphrases ...
BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: PROSE EPIGRAMS
• Elevate your words, not their volume. Rain grows flowers, not thunder.—Rumi, translation by Michael R. Burch
• No wind is favorable to the man who lacks direction.—Seneca the Younger, translation by Michael R. Burch
• Little sparks may ignite great Infernos.—Dante, translation by Michael R. Burch
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"Faith" Is A Fine Invention
by Emily Dickinson
185
"Faith" is a fine invention
When Gentlemen can see—
But Microscopes are prudent
In an Emergency.
Epigrams by Michael R. Burch (I)
by Michael R. Burch
This page contains epigrams, epitaphs, quotes, quips, jokes, puns, parodies, haiku, limericks and wordplay penned by Michael R. Burch along with a number of epitaphs, elegies, translations, interpretations and paraphrases ...
BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: PROSE EPIGRAMS
• Elevate your words, not their volume. Rain grows flowers, not thunder.—Rumi, translation by Michael R. Burch
• No wind is favorable to the man who lacks direction.—Seneca the Younger, translation by Michael R. Burch
• Little sparks may ignite great Infernos.—Dante, translation by Michael R. Burch
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Epigrams by Michael Burch (II)
by Michael R. Burch
These are epigrams and epigram translations by Michael R. Burch, along with puns, quotes, quips, etc.
Pablo Neruda Translations
You can crop all the flowers but you cannot detain spring.
—Pablo Neruda, loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Every Day You Play (Excerpt)
by Pablo Neruda
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Epigrams by Michael R. Burch
by Michael R. Burch
This page contains epigrams, epitaphs, quotes, quips, jokes, puns, parodies, haiku, limericks and wordplay penned by Michael R. Burch along with a number of epitaphs, elegies, translations, interpretations and paraphrases ...
BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: PROSE EPIGRAMS
• Elevate your words, not their volume. Rain grows flowers, not thunder.—Rumi, translation by Michael R. Burch
• No wind is favorable to the man who lacks direction.—Seneca the Younger, translation by Michael R. Burch
• Little sparks may ignite great Infernos.—Dante, translation by Michael R. Burch
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Martial translations to modern English
by Michael R. Burch
These are modern English translations of Martial epigrams and poems, some with the original Latin.
You ask me why I've sent you no new verses?
There might be reverses.
—Martial, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
You ask me to recite my poems to you?
I know how you'll 'recite' them, if I do.
—Martial, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
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Art Thou Pale For Weariness
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Art thou pale for weariness
Of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth,
Wandering companionless
Among the stars that have a different birth,
And ever changing, like a joyless eye
That finds no object worth its constancy?
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Abraham Lincoln (1 poems about Epigram)
12 February 1809 – 15 April 1865 / Sinking Spring Farm, Kentucky