"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."

June 2025

A Flame Between Us: Lament in the Poetry of Kassia “You meet your friend, your faceBrightens – you have struck gold.”-- Hymn and epigrammatic poetry by Kassia (Kassiani), 9th century Byzantium Kassia (Kassiani) was a Byzantine abbess, poet, composer, and intellectual who lived in Constantinople in the...