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EARLY POEMS: HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGEEARLY POEMS: HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE, PART I / These are juvenilia (early poems) of Michael R. Burch, written in high school and college… / Bound
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Jun 8, 2025
Callimachus English TranslationsThese are my English translations of poems and epigrams by the ancient Greek poet Callimachus aka Kallimachos. His surviving poems come from various sources including the Greek Anthology and the Garland of Meleager. The epigrams of Callimachus were so admired in antiquity that they became part of the school curriculum. / For Gail White, who put me up to these translations. / Here I lie, Timon, hateful as ever;
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May 5, 2025
Pablo Neruda English TranslationsThese are English translations of Spanish poems by Pablo Neruda. There are also English translations of Pablo Neruda quotes and epigrams. / Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) was a Chilean poet who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971 and is generally considered to be one of the world's best poets. Indeed, he was called "the greatest poet of the 20th century in any language" by Gabriel García Márquez. / Neruda always wrote in green ink, the color of esperanza (hope).
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Mar 7, 2025
Arthur Rimbaud English Translations by Michael R. BurchThese are my English translations of French poems by Arthur Rimbaud... / Ophélie (“Ophelia”), an Excerpt / by Arthur Rimbaud
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Feb 22, 2025
Hildegard von Bingen: English translations by Michael R. BurchEpiphanies on Woman as Divine Love Incarnate / by Hildegard von Bingen / Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), also known as the Sibyl of the Rhine and Hildegardis Bingensis, was a German christian mystic who had visions of the Love of God beginning at age three. She was a German Benedictine abbess and polymath: a poet, writer, songwriter, composer, philosopher and medical writer/practitioner. remains one of the best-known composers of sacred monophony, as well as the most recorded in modern history. She has been considered by scholars to be the founder of scientific natural history in Germany and perhaps the first notable environmentalist as well. She wrote poems and song lyrics in Latin.
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Feb 10, 2025
Voltaire translations by Michael R. BurchThese are English translations of Voltaire, one of the world's most prolific, best and most influential writers. Voltaire, born François-Marie Arouet (1694-1778), was an amazingly prolific writer who produced works in nearly every literary genre, including poems, plays, novels and novellas, satires, parodies, essays, histories, Bible criticism, and even early science fiction! / Les Vous et Les Tu (“You, then and now”) / by Voltaire
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Jan 10, 2025
Dog DazeThese are poems about dogs and doggerel about dogs... / Dog Daze / by Michael R. Burch
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Dec 12, 2024
Eihei Dogen Kigen translations by Michael R. BurchThese are modern English translations of Eihei Dogen Kigen, a master of the Japanese waka/tanka poetic form. Eihei Dogen Kigen (1200-1253), also called Dogen Zenji, was born in Kyoto, Japan. He was a Japanese Buddhist monk and a prolific poet, writer and philosopher. He was also the founder of the Soto Zen sect (or Sotoshu) and the Eiheiji monastery in early Kamakura-era Japan. In addition to writing Japanese waka, Dogen Kigen was well-versed in Chinese poetry, which he learned to read at age four. / This world? / Moonlit dew
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Dec 11, 2024
EGBERT THE ADORABLE OCTOPUS & OTHER NONSENSE VERSEEgbert the Octopus can be viewed here, in all his high-IQ’d-ness and adorability: / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V32yeA9yUuk / Egbert the Octopus
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Dec 9, 2024
German Poetry translations by Michael R. BurchThese are modern English translations of poems by the German poets Hermann Allmers, Hannah Arendt, Ingeborg Bachmann, Paul Celan, H. Distler, Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Günter Grass, Heinrich Heine, Johann Georg Jacobi, Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, Rainer Maria Rilke, Friedrich Schiller, Angelus Silesius and Georg Trakl. / To the boy Elis / by Georg Trakl, an Austrian poet who wrote in German
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Nov 29, 2024
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