Author: Teresa Pelka

Simple English Aristotle, Physics Book 1, Chapter 3

It is refutable, as of visible matter, for all modes of physical occurrence to gather into a non-dynamic One. Simple English Aristotle→
Simple English Aristotle, Physics Book 1, Chapter 2

First, we decide if we want to find (a) the one and only constitutive regularity, or we allow (b) more than one regularity as first principles. Simple English Aristotle→
Simple English Aristotle, Physics Book 1, Chapter 1

To have knowledge about our objects of thought, we study regularities about them. A regularity of natural and specific occurrence is a principle. Simple English Aristotle→
Wycliffe Gloss, Abashed: scared, afraid

Joshua 2:9. I have known it is for you the Lord takes this land; for your ghastliness has fallen onto us, and all the inhabitants of the land have been scared. Wycliffe Gloss→
Wycliffe Gloss, Abece: alphabet

1 Kings, Prologue: But the psalms thirty-sixth, and the hundred tenth, and the hundred eleventh, and the hundred eighteenth psalm, and the hundred forty-fourth, though they were written in diverse meter, nonetheless they were suited with an alphabet in the same style. Wycliffe Gloss→
Wycliffe Gloss, Abide: await

Leviticus 19:13. You will not make false allegations against your neighbor, nor will you force him down. The pay of your hired man will not await with you until morning. More→
Wycliffe Gloss, Aboute-waiter: attendant

Psalms, 30:7. You hate attendants to vanity of vanities. Wycliffe Gloss→
Wycliffe Gloss, Abreggen: reduce

Ecclesiasticus 28:10. Abstain from strife, and you shall reduce sin. More→
Wycliffe Gloss, Acorden: agree

Exodus 39:17-19 . In truth, they placed the rings on each side of the breast plate, where two golden chains should hang, set in with hooks in the edges of the shoulder cloak. The elements in the front and in the back agreed so, that the cloak and the breast piece could be drawn together…
Wycliffe Gloss, Acquenched: perished

To whom not withoute desert power of wrytinge the dedis of the apostlis was ʒyue in mynistre …
Wycliffe Gloss, Actour: minder

As long as the heir is a little child, he does not differ from a subordinate…
Wycliffe Gloss, Acumblid, Aclumsid: inept

Jeremiah, 6:24. We have heard the laud for them, and inept have been our hands, tribulation has taken us, we are sore as the one laboring with a child. Wycliffe Gloss→
Wycliffe Gloss, Agrisen: to shudder at

Job, 19:17. My wife shuddered at my breath, and I prayed for the sons of my lap. Wycliffe Gloss→
Wycliffe Gloss, Aleggen: to allay

Isaiah, 9:1. At first, the land of Zabulon and the land of Neptalym were allayed with leniency; as the last, the ways of the see beyond Jordan were made difficult, for the Gentile Galilee. Wycliffe Gloss→
Wycliffe Gloss, Algat: anyone, anyhow

Genesis, 33:15. Esau answered, I beseech you, may anyone of the people who are with me live your way. Wycliffe Gloss→
Death or life

In her Heaven, Christina wore a long pale blue gown and trod barefoot on warm grass. When she met him, her grandfather was wearing a diaper.
Siddhartha’s rainbow

The verb phrase, “to live a form of existence” meets the requirements for a reality.
Face the Embellishment of the World

TO face the embellishment of the world, Look up into clear nocturnal skies; Let your mind dive in the tender glimmer: Forget the day. Forget the earth… More→
After the Rain

ROSES may come to differ,This, at some times, they doAnd unveil a true interest:The beyonds latest hue… More→
Eagle Breath of Heaven

THE eagle takes heaven full-breath.A conqueror, below,State within bracelets mundane,Is at the gate for all… More→
Highways of the Skies

GREAT pace of horses wildA wind runs past a mountain peak;The bop trades, indeliberateOf the speed at full swing… More→
Notes for Emily Dickinson’s poetry

The correlative with Webster 1828, Latin and Greek inspiration, and Aristotelian things perpetual — these are not in time, but in eternity.
Index, Life

First print poems, Life.
Success

Success is counted sweetest By those who ne’er succeed. To comprehend a nectar Requires sorest need…
Our Share of Night

Our share of night to bear, Our share of morning, Our blank in bliss to fill, Our blank in scorning.
Rouge et Noir

Soul, wilt thou toss again? By just such a hazard Hundreds have lost, indeed, But tens have won an all.
Rouge Gagne

It is so much joy! ’T is so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty!
Glee! The Great Storm Is Over!

Glee! The great storm is over! Four have recovered the land; Forty gone down together Into the boiling sand.
If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain …
Almost!

WITHIN my reach! I could have touched! I might have chanced that way! Soft sauntered through the village, Sauntered as soft away! More→
A Wounded Deer

A WOUNDED deer leaps highest, I’ve heard the hunter tell; ’T is but the ecstasy of death, And then the brake is still. More→
The Heart Asks Pleasure First

THE heart asks pleasure first, And then, excuse from pain; And then, those little anodynes That deaden suffering… More→
In a Library

A PRECIOUS, mouldering pleasure ’t is To meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think, His venerable hand to take, And warming in our own, A passage back, or two, to make To times when he was young. His quaint opinions to inspect, His knowledge to unfold On…
Much Madness

Much madness is divinest sense To a discerning eye; Much sense the starkest madness.
I Asked No Other Thing

I asked no other thing, No other was denied. I offered Being for it; The mighty merchant smiled.
Exclusion

The soul selects her own society, Then shuts the door …
The Secret

Some things that fly there be — Birds, hours, the bumble-bee: Of these no elegy.
The Lonely House

I KNOW some lonely houses off the road A robber ’d like the look of — Wooden barred, And windows hanging low, Inviting to A portico, Where two could creep: One hand the tools, The other peep To make sure all’s asleep. Old-fashioned eyes, Not easy to surprise! More→
To Fight Aloud

TO fight aloud is very brave, But gallanter, I know, Who charge within the bosom, The cavalry of woe. Who win, and nations do not see, Who fall, and none observe, Whose dying eyes no country Regards with patriot love. More→
Dawn

WHEN night is almost done, And sunrise grows so near That we can touch the spaces, It’s time to smooth the hair, And get the dimples ready… More→
The Book of Martyrs

READ, sweet, how others strove, Till we are stouter; What they renounced, Till we are less afraid; How many times they bore The faithful witness, Till we are helped, As if a kingdom cared! More→
The Mystery of Pain

PAIN has an element of blank; It cannot recollect When it began, or if there were A day when it was not. More→
I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed

ITASTE taste a liquor never brewed, From tankards scooped in pearl; Not all the vats upon the Rhine Yield such an alcohol! Inebriate of air am I, And debauchee of dew, Reeling, through endless summer days, From inns of molten blue. More→
A Book

HE ate and drank the precious words, His spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, Nor that his frame was dust. More→
I Had No Time to Hate

I HAD no time to hate, because The grave would hinder me, And life was not so ample I Could finish enmity. More→
Unreturning

’TWAS such a little, little boat That toddled down the bay! ’T was such a gallant, gallant sea That beckoned it away! More→
Whether My Bark Went Down at Sea

WHETHER my bark went down at sea, Whether she met with gales, Whether to isles enchanted She bent her docile sails… More→
Belshazzar Had a Letter

BELSHAZZAR had a letter — He never had but one; Belshazzar’s correspondent Concluded — and begun In that immortal copy… More→
The Brain Within Its Groove

THE brain within its groove Runs evenly and true; But let a splinter swerve ’T were easier for you… More→
Index, Love

LINKS to poems in first print order, Mine, Bequest, Alter? More→