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“Time Does Not Bring Relief; You All Have Lied” by Edna St. Vincent Millay
If life wasn’t built on lies there might not be much of a world at all. “Life must go on; I forget just why.” Millay. More of her here (internal link) By Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 – 1950) Time … Continue reading
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An Appeal to Cats in the Business of Love by Thomas Flatman
Flatman was a lawyer, poet, and painter. He excelled at creating miniature paintings, or simply miniatures, which is a thing. Grimilkain in this poem means an old female cat. The poet admires a cat’s nature to love and leave. Society … Continue reading
The Poetry of Sara Teasdale as Read by Ghizela Rowe
I’ve mentioned Sara Teasdale’s simply worded poetry but before (internal link) but not at length. Like A.E. Housman (internal link), no Greek, Latin, or Great Literature is required to understand their poetry. Much tragedy in her life, own ended by … Continue reading
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“How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear!” by Edward Lear
Edward Lear wrote nonsense poetry before Lewis Carrol (internal link) was born. Carrol, and perhaps the entirety of the literate English people, tremendously enjoyed Lear’s writing and drawings in newspapers and otherwise. By otherwise I mean he was a professional … Continue reading
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Hymn to Intellectual Beauty by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) Shelley (internal link) once again contemplates beauty and the mercurial and inconstant nature of same. Time flies. Beauty, too, too often, as that beautiful blonde woman who just appeared and then … Continue reading
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Paudeen by William Butler Yeats
Paudeen was a not so kind word for a shopkeeper, someone below Yeats’ station in life. A class system in Yeats’ time sharply divided people of the British Empire, with the high too often and too quickly exasperated with the … Continue reading
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The Journey of the Magi by T.S. Eliot
Yes, I should have posted this before Christmas but Eliot’s poetry (internal link) transcends time. Eliot’s poem borrows, updates, and is inspired by the writings of Bishop Lancelot Andrewes (1555-1626) and W.B. Yeats (internal link). Here, an old ruler recounts … Continue reading
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Cynara by Ernest Christopher Dowson (Updated post)
Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion. by Ernest Dowson (1867 – 1900) Richard Burton’s voice in this reading continues to haunt me. It’s been about nine months since … Continue reading