Monday, December 31, 2007
Ring Out, Wild Bells
by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
(Section 106 of In Memoriam)
Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light:
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, [...]
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Saturday, December 29, 2007
A Daughter of Eve
by Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)
A fool I was to sleep at noon,
And wake when night is chilly
Beneath the comfortless cold moon;
A fool to pluck my rose too soon,
A fool to snap my lily.
My garden-plot I have not kept;
Faded and all-forsaken,
I weep as I have [...]
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Friday, December 28, 2007
A Radical War Song
by Thomas Babbington Macaulay (1800-1859)
1820
Awake, arise, the hour is come,
For rows and revolutions;
There
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Thursday, December 27, 2007
The Valley of the Shadow
by Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)
There were faces to remember in the Valley of the Shadow,
There were faces unregarded, there were faces to forget;
There were fires of grief and fear that are a few forgotten ashes,
There were sparks of recognition that are not forgotten yet.
For at first, with an amazed and overwhelming [...]
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Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes
by Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
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Tuesday, December 25, 2007
Epitaph for Sir Issaac Newton
by Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
(because today is Newton
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Monday, December 24, 2007
Christmas-Eve, Another Ceremony
by Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
Come guard this night the Christmas-Pie,
That the thief, though ne’er so sly,
With his flesh-hooks, don’t come nigh
To catch it
From him, who all alone sits there,
Having his eyes still in his ear,
And [...]
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Sunday, December 23, 2007
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Saturday, December 22, 2007
Miniver Cheevy
by Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)
Miniver Cheevy, child of scorn,
Grew lean while he assailed the seasons
He wept that he was ever born,
And he had reasons.
Miniver loved the days of old
When swords were bright and steeds were prancing;
The vision of a warrior bold
Would send [...]
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Friday, December 21, 2007
Not Understood
by Thomas Bracken (1843-1898)
Not understood, we move along asunder;
Our paths grow wider as the seasons creep
Along the years; we marvel and we wonder
Why life is life, and then we fall asleep
Not understood.
Not understood, we gather false impressions
And hug them closer as the years go by;
Till virtues often seem to us transgressions;
And [...]
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