https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/40399 Sun, 05 Apr 2026 09:23:03 GMT 2026-04-05T09:23:03Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/40006 Title: The ransom of the peasants : a dramatic poem in five acts : act 5 Abstract: The Bay of Bur Marrad. At the mouth beside the edge of the tongue of black rock is seen half of the stern of a vessel with sails furled as though waiting for someone to depart secretly. The silence of that strip of rock at that lonely hour of night, the moon as yet not having risen, is sufficient to arouse suspicion of flight. The old house, furnished for a summer resort ny the Lord Don Carlos, is seen on the right-hand side at the top of the rock which conceals the prow of the vessel; it stands there, encircled by thick walls to withstand the fury of wind and wave. The walls are battlemented and the indentations resemble bared teeth. Beneath, some barred windows show here and there. At a height of ten feet from the rock, whence rises a section of the wall, there is an adequate serving as windows, about two feet high, which is also barred. A shaft of light flickers from it. On the side of the bay, high up on the slope, can be seen in the darkness trees and fields. GUERRINO comes out from behind the rock, wrapped from head to waist in a black mantle; old PEDRO climbs up after him, a bunch of keys in one hand and a light in the other. Description: Translated by May Butcher from the Maltese original. Fri, 01 Jan 1971 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/40006 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/40005 Title: Three articles Abstract: Xenophanes (c. 570-c. 470 B.C.), poet and philosopher, was born in the Ionian city of Colophon. Driven away from his country he spent many years in. Sicily. He is also reputed, perhaps erroneously, to have been the founder of the Eleatic School of Philosophy. According to the Doxographers Xenophanes believed, perhaps under the influence of Anaximander's cosmogony, that the earth was subject to alternate encroachments of land on sea and of sea on land. Fri, 01 Jan 1971 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/40005 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/40004 Title: Human; Archaeology; Trees [poems] Abstract: A selection of poems written by the English authoress Ursula Vaughan Williams: 'Human', 'Archaeology', and 'Trees'. Fri, 01 Jan 1971 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/40004 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/39907 Title: Poems Abstract: A selection of poems written by J. Aquilina: 'Time', 'Lost House', 'Repentance', 'Epitaph On A Critic', 'Double Epitaph', 'Lamp Of Life', 'Faith', 'Anguish', 'Nightmare', 'Epitaph', 'Trial', 'Ash Wednesday In Dubrovnik', 'Z*', 'Before And After', and 'Prayer'. Fri, 01 Jan 1971 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/39907 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z