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Monthly Archives: February 2009

an example of right-wing hypocrisy

It’s been a while since I’ve had time to post more than a poem. It remains my intention to make this site about All Things Human and, with any luck, I will be able to start doing so in the near future.
Meanwhile, this caught my eye. A restrictionist immigration group urges President Obama to order [...]

poem of the day

To His Mistress
by Samuel Butler (1612-1680)
Do not unjustly blame
My guiltless breast,
For venturing to disclose a flame
It had so long suppressed.
In its own ashes it designed
For ever to have lain,
But that my sighs, like blasts of wind,
Made it break out [...]

poem of the day

The Invitation to Youth
an anonymous medieval Latin Song
translated into English by John Addington Symonds (1840-1893)
Take your pleasure, dance and play,
Each with other while ye may:
Youth is nimble, full of grace;
Age is lame, of tardy pace.
We the wars of love should wage,
Who are yet of tender age;

poem of the day

The Art of Coquetry
by Charlotte Lennox (1730?-1804)
Ye lovely maids! whose yet unpractis

poem of the day

Today
by Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
So here hath been dawning
Another blue day;
Think, wilt thou let it
Slip useless away?
Out of Eternity
This new day is born;
Into Eternity,
At night, will return.
Behold it aforetime
No eye ever did;
So soon it forever
From all eyes is hid.
Here hath been dawning
Another blue day;
Think, wilt thou let it
Slip useless away?

poem of the day

Susie Asado
by Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)
Sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet tea.
Susie Asado.
Sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet tea.
Susie Asado.
Susie Asado which is a told tray sure.
A lean [...]

poem of the day

poem of the day

Gute Stunde
by Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929)
Hier lieg ich, mich d