he Sidhe cannot make themselves visible to all. They are shape-changers; they can grow small or grow large, they can take what shape they choose; they appear as men or women wearing clothes of many colours, of today or of some old forgotten fashion, or they are seen as bird or beast, or as a barrel or a flock of wool. They go by us in a cloud of dust; they are as many as the blades of grass. They are everywhere; their home is in the forths, the lisses, the ancient round grass-grown mounds. There are thorn-bushes they gather near and protect; if they have a mind for a house like our own they...
he Sidhe cannot make themselves visible to all. They are shape-changers; they can grow small or grow large, they can take what shape they choose; they...
The Bhagavad Gita has served as a guide to liberation for over two thousand years. It advocates an integrated path of action without attachment to results. It has inspired and influenced Western thought since the first translation over two hundred years ago. Poets, philosophers, thinkers, and scientists have attested to its wisdom and life-changing impact.
The Upanishads are the oldest spiritual teachings of the forest sages of India. They are the realization of an absolute Being called Spirit or Atman. They try to answer all of our deepest...
The Bhagavad Gita has served as a guide to liberation for over two thousand years. It advocates an integrated path of action without at...
I was not an industrious student and knew only what I had found by accident, and I had found -nothing I cared for after Titian-and Titian I knew chiefly from a copy of 'the supper of Emmaus' in Dublin-till Blake and the Pre-Raphaelites;- and among my father's friends were no Pre-Raphaelites. Some indeed had come to Bedford Park in the enthusiasm of the first building, and others to be near those that had. There was Todhunter, a well-off man who had bought my father's pictures while my father was still Pre-Raphaelite. Once a Dublin doctor he was a poet and a writer of poetical plays: a tall,...
I was not an industrious student and knew only what I had found by accident, and I had found -nothing I cared for after Titian-and Titian I knew chief...
This is one of the best-known collections of Yeats' prose; in it he explores the longstanding connection between the people of Ireland and the inhabitants of the land of Fairy. Yeats, who had profound mystic and visionary beliefs, writes with conviction of the reality of Fairies, both in his own experience, and in the everyday life of the Irish. This relatively short work serves as a way for readers to discover Yeats' powerful wordcraft and get an overview of celtic Fairy lore.
This is one of the best-known collections of Yeats' prose; in it he explores the longstanding connection between the people of Ireland and the inhabit...
