Of Chess and Life | Are You a King?

Of Chess and Life | Are You a King?

Introduction You don’t have to be a chess player, or even a fan to know if you are a king or not. In this Of Chess and Life episode, I will only help you answer this simple question and here I insist on addressing this question to both men and women. Are you a king?...

Spotlights | Ozymandias

Listen to Shelley’s famous poem, Ozymandias, and enjoy a plunge into the deep meanings of this poem. Audio Podcast     Spotlights | Ozymandias Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley I met a traveller from an antique land,Who said—“Two vast and trunkless...

Spotlights | The Tears of the World

Audio Podcast   The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh. Let us not then speak ill of our generation, it is not any unhappier than its predecessors.from Waiting...

Invictus by William Ernest Henley

Poetry | Invictus Audio Poetry | Invictus Transcript So heavy is your burden, but so is mine, and so is everyone’s. What you kept telling yourself over the years blaming others for your misfortunes and your so-called failures does not concern me or anyone. All those...

From To Adonais by Percy Shelley

Poetry | To Adonais Audio Poetry | To Adonais Transcript From to Adonais by Percy Bysshe Shelley -39-Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep-He hath awakened from the dream of life-‘Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keepWith phantoms an...