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The Lamp Once Out

by Natsume Soseki

Natsume Soseki

The lamp once out
Cool stars enter
The window frame.




Quotes of the Day

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
• W. Somerset Maugham


Poems of the Day
  • Walt Whitman
    A Leaf for Hand in Hand.
    by Walt Whitman
    A LEAF for hand in hand! You natural persons old and young! You on the Mississippi, and on all the branches and bayous of the Mississippi! You friendly boatmen and mechanics! You roughs!