Reflections - Leon Malinofsky
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In the life of a man, his time is but a moment.... his sense, a dim
rushlight. All that is body is as coursing waters.... all that is of the
soul, as dreams, and vapors. -- Marcus Aurelius
Zum Sehen geboren / Zum Schauen bestellt, / Dem Turme geschworen /
Gefällt mir die Welt. -- Goethe
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Ribald * De Profundis * An
Arabesque * A Conjuration *
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Voices
The
world according to Marcus Aurelius (.wav - 291,150 bytes)
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Dylan
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The
Lee Shore -- a meditation on thought and independence, by Herman
Melville
An
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The CD of this stunning, legendary performance, by Elisabeth Schwarzkopf,
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Passion
The
Two Trees, by William Butler Yeats
Image
of Yeats
The Two Trees, sung by Loreena Mckennitt Reading the lyrics by W.
B. Yeats while hearing this music can be a transcendent, unforgettable
experience. Here is an image of Loreena Mckennitt!
The selection is from McKennitt's album entitled "The Mask and Mirror".
Amazon
has the entire CD for about $15, and it is great!
The
Shepherd's Lament (Goethe), translation by Leon Malinofsky
Non
Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae, by Ernest Dowson
-- ("I am not quite as I was under the rule of the
beautiful Cynara")
The Theologian's Tale, by H. W. Longfellow
-- A tale of faith and courtship told in plain
dactyls, with a powerful subtext. From "Tales of a Wayside Inn".
A Pilgrimage to Kevlaar (Heine), translation by Leon
Malinofsky
--"Die Wallfahrt Nach Kevlaar" is an
unusually powerful work of passion, prayer and
deliverance.
Muse
Ars
Gratia Artis, by C. P. Cavafy
To
the One of Fictive Music, by Wallace Stevens
Sometimes
The Sky's Too Bright, by Dylan Thomas (with
interpretation)
A
Letter To My Aunt Discussing The Correct Approach to
Modern Poetry, by Dylan Thomas
-- "A Letter To My Aunt" is a satire, in verse,
of an aunt's poetic pretensions
Nature
The
Force That Through The Green Fuse Drives The Flower, by Dylan Thomas
(with interpretation)
A
Forsaken Garden, by Algernon Charles Swinburne
The
Law of the Yukon, by Robert W. Service -- a
rather different view of nature from Swinburne's.
White
Orchids -- photography by Leon Malinofsky.
High-resolution copy of image used as background for
"The Force That Through The Green Fuse Drives The
Flower", above. Approximately 1.7 MB. The
image may be used freely.
Eros
Goblin
Market, by Christina Rossetti
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Farewell
to Eros, by Clark Ashton Smith

Bette
Davis Eyes -- song lyrics by Donna Weiss/Jackie
DeShannon
Joy
The Comedian Harmonists: Wochenend und Sonnenschein (Approx. 3 meg
filesize-- ca. 18 mins. to download at 28.8 Kbps)
The Comedian Harmonists, a group of six young men, sang in
Cabaret-era Berlin (early 1930s). Their renditions radiate pure joy.
Go
for a photo and to browse the definitive CD of their work!
Romance
Translations by Leon Malinofsky
Ich
und Du (You and I), by Christian Friedrich Hebbel
Es
Färbte Sich Die Wiese Grün (With Color Blooms the
Meadow Green), by Novalis
Eternity
gee
i like to think of dead, by e e cummings
Thanatopsis,
by William Cullen Bryant
in
a middle of a room, by e e cummings
The
Garden of Proserpine, by Algernon Charles Swinburne
The
Reaper and the Flowers, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
--written by the poet after the tragic loss of his wife
and children in a fire.
what if a much of a which of a wind, by e e cummings
Innocence
Fern
Hill, by Dylan Thomas
Fern
Hill, read aloud by Dylan Thomas (True
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Transcendence
The
Emperor of Ice Cream, by Wallace Stevens
Of
Mere Being, by Wallace Stevens
The
Ballad of the Long-Legged Bait, by Dylan Thomas
The
Ballad of the Long-Legged Bait, read aloud by
Dylan Thomas. (TrueSpeech audio file--
see note above!)
Moonlight
-- brief verse
The
Fish, by Rupert Brooke
Voyages
The
Elixir
The
Dark Side of the Moon (.jpg- 206,259 bytes)
Orbit
of Venus (.gif- 236,597 bytes)
A
Landing on the Surface of Mars (.jpg- 296,449
bytes)
The
Rime of the Ancient Mariner, by Samuel Taylor
Coleridge
Perhaps the strangest voyage of all.
Mammon
mam mon (noun). 1. New
Testament. riches or material wealth. 2. (cap.) a personification of
riches as an evil spirit or deity.
The
Common Cult, by George Sterling
Apocalypse
The
Second Coming, by William Butler Yeats
All Along The Watchtower, by Bob Dylan
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element of outline for interpretation
The Ribald
the
boys i mean are not refined, by e e cummings
De profundis
Mozart
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by Vladimir Horowitz.
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Beethoven
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Hammerklavier sonata in B-flat, Op. 106,
performed by Rudolf Serkin.
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Franz
Schubert-- Der Doppelgänger.
Performed in Russian by the legendary Feodor
Chaliapin. (True Speech version only.) For an
English translation of the lyrics, look
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Der
Blumen Schmerz (a song by Franz Schubert) --
sheet music only in .pdf format. One of
the rare, undiscovered gems of the Schubert
songs. With an interlined English
translation by Leon Malinofsky.
Edited
text of the English translation.
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An Arabesque
The
Place of the Solitaires, by Wallace Stevens
A Conjuration
The
Conjuring in the Iron Tower, by E. R. Eddison-- Possibly the
finest fictional account of an alchemic conjuration in the literature.
Fine Art
Judas
Returning the Thirty Pieces of Silver, by Rembrandt van Rijn
After ten years of searching, I have finally
found a color image of this work!
A
Visit to the Musee D'Orsay
Eleven superb (mostly impressionist)
paintings.
The Metaphysics of
Skydiving
The time has come for The Metaphysics of
Skydiving to have its own page, complete with quotes, personal
reflections, skydiving verse, pictures, a movie, a short story, some
cartoon humor by Don Martin, and lots of colorful graphics. To visit
this page, click
!
Dark Things
Monsters from the Id-- Two short stories by Clark Ashton Smith
that demonstrate the link between poetry and horror.
Nyctalops,
by Clark Ashton Smith
The
Lord of the Smoking Mirror--
Tezcatlipoca, most potent and implacable of the
Aztec deities. Speaks in Delphic portents
through the mirror, his gateway. Look into the
smoking glass-- what is he saying?
Links!
(These links will open in a
new browser window.)
University of Toronto Library -- poems and
literature in English
The poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Project Bartleby - Works of Melville, Shelley,
Wordsworth, Wilde, Whitman
Dead Poets Society -- formerly known as
Richard's Poetry Library.
A wonderful
collection of favorite poems.
The Thinking Man's Minefield
Some intriguing, some outrageous
intellectualisms compiled by Kevin Solway
Booklovers: Fine Books and Literature Page
-- maintained by Piet Wesselman
Poetry Lover's Guide to the World Wide Web
-maintained by Lucius Furius.
Poems by Lucius Furius
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welcome.
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Leon Malinofsky, lmalinofsky -at- gmail -dot-
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For the terminally bored or morbidly
curious, some biographical information on Leon
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