William Barnes: Zummer An' Winter (English)

 
When I led by zummer streams 
The pride o' Lea, as naighbours thought her, 
While the zun, wi' evenen beams, 
Did cast our sheades athirt the water; 
Winds a-blowen, 
Streams a-flowen, 
Skies a-glowen, 
Tokens ov my jay zoo fleeten, 
Heightened it, that happy meeten. 

Then, when maid an' man took pleaces, 
Gay in winter's Chris'mas dances, 
Showen in their merry feaces 
Kindly smiles an' glisnen glances; 
Stars a-winken, 
Day a-shrinken, 
Sheades a-zinken, 
Brought anew the happy meeten, 
That did meake the night too fleeten.

William Barnes: Zummer Par 'Hiver (French)

 
Quand j'ai mené par le zummer coule la fierté o 'Lea, comme 
naighbours l'a pensée, alors que le zun, wi 'evenen des faisceaux, a 
moulé notre athirt de sheades l'eau; Les vents a-blowen, des jets 
a-flowen, des cieux a-glowen, la marque OV mon geai que le zoo 
fleeten, intensifié lui, qu'heureux meeten. 

Puis, quand la bonne un 'homme a pris des pleaces, gai dans Chris'mas 
de l'hiver danse, Showen dans leurs joyeux feaces sourit avec bonté 
'glisnen des regards; Les étoiles a-winken, jour a-shrinken, Sheades 
a-zinken, apporté à nouveau l'heureux meeten, qui a fait le meake 
que la nuit fleeten aussi.

William Barnes: Zummer Ein ' Winter (German)

 
Als ich durch zummer führte, strömt der Stolz O ' Lea, als 
naighbours dachte sie, während das zun, wi ' Lichtstrahlen evenen, 
warf unser sheades athirt das Wasser; Winde a-blowen, Ströme 
a-flowen, Himmel a-glowen, Zeichen ov mein Eichelhäher, den 
Zoo fleeten, erhöht ihm, das glücklich meeten. 

Dann als Mädchen ein ' Mann pleaces nahm, homosexuell in Chris'mas 
des Winters tanzt, Showen in ihren fröhlichen feaces lächelt 
freundlich ' glisnen flüchtige Blicke; Sterne a-winken, Tag 
a-shrinken, Sheades a-zinken, das glückliche von neuem geholt meeten, 
das meake tat, welches, die Nacht auch fleeten.

William Barnes: Zummer Um ' O Inverno (Portuguese)

 
Quando eu conduzi pelo zummer flui o orgulho o ' Lea, como naighbours 
pensou dela, quando o zun, wi ' evenen feixes, moldou nosso athirt dos 
sheades a água; Os ventos a-blowen, córregos a-flowen, céus 
a-glowen, o símbolo ov meu jay que o jardim zoológico fleeten, 
heightened lhe, que feliz meeten. 

Então, quando a empregada doméstica ' um homem fêz exame de 
pleaces, gay em Chris'mas do inverno dança, Showen em seus feaces 
alegres sorri amavelmente ' glisnen glances; As estrelas a-winken, dia 
a-shrinken, Sheades a-zinken, trazido anew o feliz meeten, que fêz o 
meake que a noite fleeten demasiado.

Guillermo Barnes: Zummer Al ' Invierno (Spanish)

 
Cuando conduje por el zummer fluye el orgullo o ' Lea, como naighbours 
la pensó, mientras que el zun, wi ' evenen vigas, echó nuestro 
athirt de los sheades el agua; Los vientos a-blowen, las corrientes 
a-flowen, los cielos a-glowen, el símbolo ov mi jay que el parque 
zoológico fleeten, aumentado le, que feliz meeten. 

Entonces, cuando la criada un ' hombre tomó pleaces, el Gay en 
Chris'mas del invierno baila, Showen en sus felices feaces sonríe 
amablemente ' glisnen vistazos; Las estrellas a-winken, día 
a-shrinken, Sheades a-zinken, traído de nuevo el feliz meeten, que 
hizo el meake que la noche fleeten también.

William Barnes: Zummer An' Winter (Blogs)

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The Poem Farm: Love Letters and Chalk Poems | growing poetry ... by Amy Ludwig VanDerwater (2013/05/16 21:01)
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Writing and Ruminating - Sonnet 5 by William Shakespeare by kellyrfineman (2013/05/15 13:43)
Sonnet 5 by William Shakespeare. May. 15th, 2013 at 4:43 PM. Shakespeare's poems. Today's selection is from the portion of Shakespeare's sonnets known as the Fair Youth sequence. Like most of the first 17 sonnets, this one focuses on the ... Throughout the first three quatrains, he's using summer and winter to refer to the youth and his appearance and vitality; in the closing couplet, he shifts from the season (in which perfume is made), to focus on the flowers themselves (from ...
Writing and Ruminating - Under the Greenwood Tree by William ... by kellyrfineman (2013/05/08 10:57)
by William Shakespeare Under the greenwood tree. Who loves to lie with me, And tune his merry note. Unto the sweet bird's throat— Come hither, come hither, come hither! Here shall he see. No enemy. But winter and rough ...
Writing and Ruminating - Notes from the NESCBWI Conference ... by kellyrfineman (2013/05/06 14:54)
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Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley - a National Poetry Month post by kellyrfineman (2013/04/29 16:00)
I met a traveller from an antique land / Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone / Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand, / Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown / And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command ...
Writing and Ruminating - i thank You God for most this amazing by ... by kellyrfineman (2013/04/28 09:17)
i thank You God for most this amazing / day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees / and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything / which is natural which is infinite which is yes / (i who have died am alive again today, ...
Mezzo Cammin by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - a National Poetry by kellyrfineman (2013/04/26 16:54)
Half of my life is gone, and I have let / The years slip from me and have not fulfilled / The aspiration of my youth, to build / Some tower of song with lofty parapet. / Not indolence, nor pleasure, nor the fret / Of restless passions ...
Writing and Ruminating - Sonnet 28 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning by kellyrfineman (2013/04/25 09:16)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning is one of the best-known Victorian poets, who was, in fact, better known and appreciated during her lifetime than was her extraordinarily talented husband, Robert Browning. She was so popular, ...
Sonnet 98 by William Shakespeare - a National Poetry month post by kellyrfineman (2013/04/24 08:42)
Could make me any summer's story tell, Or from their proud ... And the final couplet brings it all home, and gives us the poet's bottom line: "Even though I can see spring around me, it's still winter for me because you are away." ...
Writing and Ruminating - School visits by kellyrfineman (2013/04/22 11:57)
Last week, I spent a couple of hours a day as "poet in residence" at Horace Mann Elementary School in Cherry Hill, NJ, which is where my daughters both went to elementary school. You'd be surprised how many teachers ...
A Leaf Can Be . . . by Laura Purdie Salas, illus. by Violeta Dabija by kellyrfineman (2013/04/21 09:11)
The poem is told in two acts: the first one is a list (in rhyming couplets) of the various roles leaves play in spring and summer; the second is another list (again in rhyming couplets) of the roles leaves play in autumn and winter.
Leda and the Swan by WB Yeats - a National Poetry Month post by kellyrfineman (2013/04/20 18:15)
Despite its vague creepiness, it's still a wonderful poem. So here goes today's sonnet: Leda and the Swan by William Butler Yeats A sudden blow: the great wings beating still. Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed ...
The Oven Bird by Robert Frost - a National Poetry Month post by kellyrfineman (2013/04/18 17:09)
This poem comes to mind more often than you might think for me, sometimes it's "But that he knows in singing not to sing", although more often, it's the closing two lines, "The question that he frames in all but words/Is what to make of a ... believe this line is the answer to a question posed in an earlier poem by a Victorian poet named Mildred Howells, "And No Birds Sing", a Keatsian poem in which Miss Howell asks how the bird can sing with winter approaching.
Bright Star by John Keats - a National Poetry Month post by kellyrfineman (2013/04/17 17:46)
The volta or "turn" in the poem comes at the start of line 9, when Keats turns his attention from the star up in the sky to describing how he wishes to be able to have that star's immortal constancy in order to stay with his beloved.
Writing and Ruminating - Is Love a Fancy or a Feeling by Hartley ... by kellyrfineman (2013/04/16 19:33)
Is love a fancy, or a feeling? No, / It is immortal as immaculate Truth. / 'Tis not a blossom, shed as soon as youth / Drops from the stem of life— for it will grow, / In barren regions, where no waters flow / Nor ray of promise cheats ...
Sonnet 147 by William Shakespeare - a National Poetry Month post by kellyrfineman (2013/04/15 05:48)
Sonnet 147 by William Shakespeare - a National Poetry Month post. Apr. 15th, 2013 at 8:48 AM. Shakespeare. This particular sonnet uses a conceit (extended metaphor) comparing love (or lust - you make the call) to an illness. Reason is ...
"Not Iron, nor the Difference Engine" by Kelly Ramsdell Fineman by kellyrfineman (2013/04/12 15:32)
"Not Iron, nor the Difference Engine" by Kelly Ramsdell Fineman - a National Poetry Month post. Apr. 12th, 2013 at 6:32 PM. omnibus of bill shakes. I have a poem in The Omnibus of Dr. Bill Shakes and the Magnificent Ionic Pentatetrameter: a ...
The Windhover by Gerard Manley Hopkins - a National Poetry ... by kellyrfineman (2013/04/11 12:55)
I caught this morning morning's minion, king- / dom of daylight's dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding / Of the rolling level underneath him steady air, and striding / High there, how he rung upon the rein of a ...
Remember by Christina Rossetti - a National Poetry Month post by kellyrfineman (2013/04/10 17:00)
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Writing and Ruminating - Stuck Doing Chores on a Summer's ... by kellyrfineman (2013/04/10 09:26)
Stuck Doing Chores on a Summer's Evening by Kelly Ramsdell Fineman - a National Poetry Month post. Apr. 10th, 2013 at 12:26 PM. I solemnly swear I am up to no good. Here's the poem that has just been published in U.S. 1 Worksheets.
My recent poetry readings - a National Poetry Month post, of sorts by kellyrfineman (2013/04/10 09:09)
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Only Human by Anna M. Evans - a National Poetry Month post by kellyrfineman (2013/04/09 10:05)
When troubles strike us first, an aunt is failing, / say, or something our hard work has built / is stolen from us, we react by railing / at Fate or God. And then, of course, the guilt / is not too far behind. If we'd been better — ...
Death Be Not Proud by John Donne - a National Poetry Month post by kellyrfineman (2013/04/08 09:12)
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Writing and Ruminating - When I consider how my light is spent by ... by kellyrfineman (2013/04/06 08:40)
When I consider how my light is spent / Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, / And that one Talent which is death to hide / Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent / To serve therewith my Maker, and present ...
Sonnet XLIII by Edna St. Vincent Millay - a National Poetry Month post by kellyrfineman (2013/04/05 10:42)
Thus in winter stands the lonely tree, / Nor knows what birds have vanished one by one, / Yet knows its boughs more silent than before: / I cannot say what loves have come and gone, / I only know that summer sang in me ...
January Aubade by Bruce W. Niedt - a National Poetry Month post by kellyrfineman (2013/04/04 08:56)
The lifting gray is just a trick of light, / my love. It's really not so close to dawn. / It's all the flurries in the air tonight / that settle in a blanket on the lawn. / The trashmen's racket? They're on early shift, / the paper guy, too, slaps ...
Letter to Mum by Kelly Ramsdell Fineman - a National Poetry Month ... by kellyrfineman (2013/04/03 14:54)
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Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare: a National Poetry Month post by kellyrfineman (2013/04/02 08:48)
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sonnets, all the time - a National Poetry Month celebration by kellyrfineman (2013/04/01 14:50)
Scorn not the Sonnet; Critic, you have frowned, / Mindless of its just honours; with this key / Shakspeare unlocked his heart; the melody / Of this small lute gave ease to Petrarch's wound; / A thousand times this pipe did Tasso ...
Writing and Ruminating - National Poetry Month starts tomorrow by kellyrfineman (2013/03/31 12:01)
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Writing and Ruminating - The Next Big Thing Blog Hop by kellyrfineman (2013/03/20 08:50)
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Lesa's Book Critiques: A Week in Winter by Maeve Binchy by noreply@blogger.com (Lesa) (2013/03/17 02:30)
Maeve Binchy's final novel, A Week in Winter, was the perfect book for St. Patrick's Day weekend. ... Once this unlikely group is ready, along with a small cat named Gloria, they welcome the first guests for A Week in Winter.
Writing and Ruminating - When Thunder Comes: Poems for Civil ... by kellyrfineman (2013/02/17 12:27)
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Writing and Ruminating - O Mistress Mine by William Shakespeare by kellyrfineman (2013/02/13 18:12)
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Writing and Ruminating - The Letter by Amy Lowell by kellyrfineman (2013/02/09 09:27)
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Writing and Ruminating - Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare by kellyrfineman (2013/02/06 16:08)
Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare. Feb. 6th, 2013 at 6:08 PM. Shakespeare's poems. Following the big news about the finding of the body of Richard III the other day, this sonnet came to mind today as I was casting about for what to post ...
Writing and Ruminating - Tea by Carol Ann Duffy by kellyrfineman (2013/02/01 18:58)
If you really love the poem, and you really love tea - or need something to dry dishes with - there is a tea towel version for sale at The Literary Gift Co. and elsewhere. You can see it to the right, below. Tea by Carol Ann Duffy I like pouring your tea , lifting the heavy pot, and tipping it ... and I am your lover, smitten, straining your tea. Kiva - loans that change lives · Site Meter. Current Mood: calm; Current Music:Blow, blow, thou winter wind performed by Molly Bauckham ...
Writing and Ruminating - Blow, blow, thou winter wind by kellyrfineman (2013/01/30 10:00)
Blow, blow, thou winter wind by William Shakespeare Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind. As man's ingratitude; Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou art not seen, Although thy breath be rude. Heigh-ho! sing ...
Writing and Ruminating - A quiet Sunday afternoon by kellyrfineman (2013/01/20 12:21)
Just the thump of a basketball across the street in the last day of almost-warm winter weather. (It's near 50 here today and sunny - the Arctic air arrives tonight, though, so we ... Over on Facebook, a friend posted that "January Sundays are best for poetry and muffins and sunny windows and spirituality and movies and pajamas and candles and planning and reflecting and coffee and sofa-sitting. (And laundry.)" I believe that she's correct. It is a good day for taking stock, ...
Writing and Ruminating - Sonnet 2 by William Shakespeare by kellyrfineman (2013/01/09 15:46)
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Writing and Ruminating - Thomas Quinlan on poetry by kellyrfineman (2013/01/06 16:43)
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Writing and Ruminating - An original sonnet for Poetry Friday by kellyrfineman (2013/01/04 10:33)
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Writing and Ruminating - Auld Lang Syne by Robert Burns by kellyrfineman (2012/12/31 15:32)
I thought my icon with a Nac Mac Feegle on it was a good idea, since I'm going to be talking about a poem by Robert Burns today. At midnight tonight (in all the various time zones), millions of people will sing some or all of ...
Poem Born From Heart !!!!: The Girt Woak Tree by William Barnes by Philosopher (2012/12/21 00:11)
The girt woak tree that's in the dell ! / There's noo tree I do love so well; / Vor times an' times when I wer young / I there've a-climb'd, an' there've a-zwung, / An' pick'd the eacorns green, a-shed / In wrestlen storms from his ...
Poem Born From Heart !!!!: Vull a Man by William Barnes by Philosopher (2012/12/21 00:11)
No, I'm a man, I'm vull a man, / You beat my manhood, if you can. / You'll be a man if you can teake / All steates that household life do meake. / The love-toss'd child, a-croodlen loud, / The bwoy a-screamen wild in play, ...
Poem Born From Heart !!!!: Woak Hill by William Barnes by Philosopher (2012/12/21 00:10)
When sycamore leaves wer a-spreaden / Green-ruddy in hedges, / Bezide the red doust o' the ridges, / A-dried at Woak Hill; / I packed up my goods, all a-sheenen / Wi' long years o' handlen, / On dousty red wheels ov a ...
Poem Born From Heart !!!!: Zummer An' Winter by William Barnes by Philosopher (2012/12/21 00:09)
When I led by zummer streams / The pride o' Lea, as naighbours thought her, / While the zun, wi' evenen beams, / Did cast our sheades athirt the water; / Winds a-blowen, / Streams a-flowen, / Skies a-glowen, / Tokens ov my ...
Poem Born From Heart !!!!: Tokens by William Barnes by Philosopher (2012/12/07 12:47)
Green mwold on zummer bars do show / That they've a-dripped in winter wet; / The hoof-worn ring o' groun' below / The tree do tell o' storms or het; / The trees in rank along a ledge / Do show where woonce did bloom a ...
My Orcha'd in Linden Lea by William Barnes - Poem Born From Heart by Philosopher (2012/12/07 12:47)
Ithin the woodlands, flow'ry gleaded, / By the woak tree's mossy moot, / The sheenen grass-bleades, timber-sheaded, / Now do quiver under voot; / An' birds do whissle over head, / An' water's bubblen in its bed, / An' there vor ...
Poem Born From Heart !!!!: Easter Zunday by William Barnes by Philosopher (2012/12/07 12:45)
His yollow breast an' back o' blue. / The lambs did play, the grounds wer green, / The trees did bud, the zun did sheen; / The lark did zing below the sky, / An' roads wer all a-blown so dry, / As if the zummer wer begun; ...
The Young that Died in Beauty by William Barnes - Poem Born From ... by Philosopher (2012/12/07 12:44)
If souls should only sheen so bright / In heaven as in e'thly light, / An' nothen better wer the cease, / How comely still, in sheape an' feace, / Would many reach thik happy pleace, - / The hopevul souls that in their prime ...
Poem Born From Heart !!!!: William Barnes Biography by Philosopher (2012/12/07 12:39)
William Barnes was born at Blackmoor Vale in Dorset, the son of a farmer. He took a Bachelor of Divinity degree on a part-time basis at St. John's College, Cambridge, and became a clergyman in 1848. The poems he wrote ...
Historical Tapestry: A Train in Winter by Caroline Moorehead by Marg (2012/11/22 05:09)
A Train in Winter draws on interviews with these women and their families; German, French, and Polish archives; and documents held by World War II resistance organizations to uncover a dark chapter of history that offers an ...
Thoughts on Life: Selected Works of William Barnes: Dorsetshire's ... by Beerdo (2012/11/16 04:48)
From Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect, Third Collection (1862) The Echo Naïghbour Plaÿmeätes The Two Churches Woak Hill The Hedger In the Spring Comen Hwome The Rwose in the Dark Zummer Winds The Neäme Letters The New ... From Poems in the Dorset Dialect by the late Rev. W. Barnes (published 1906 written 1867) The Wind at the Door Winter a-Comen Winter Weather Clouds The Broken Jug Green White an' Blue The Little Hwomestead The Mother's Dream ...
Chapter 1 - Take 1: Big Screen Adaptaton of Winter's Tale by Sim (2012/09/21 13:05)
Set in New York at the beginning and the end of the twentieth century, Winter´s Tale unfolds with such great narrative force and beauty that a reader can feel that its world is more real than his own. ... Mike, White Collar), Lucy Griffiths (True Blood ) and Eva Marie Saint to a cast that already includes Colin Farrell, along with Downton Abbey's Jessica Brown Findlay and major players like Russell Crowe, Will Smith, and William Hurt, who just doesn't make enough movies.
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC'S BOOK OF ANIMAL POETRY by kellyrfineman (2012/09/12 15:00)
Yesterday was the official release day for NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC'S BOOK OF ANIMAL POETRY: 200 poems with photographs that squeak, soar, and roar!, edited by J. Patrick Lewis, U.S. Children's Poet Laureate.
Writing and Ruminating - LAST LAUGHS: Animal Epitaphs by J ... by kellyrfineman (2012/08/08 15:02)
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Writing and Ruminating - Dare to Dream . . . Change the World by kellyrfineman (2012/08/07 09:56)
Jill asked pairs of poets to submit poems about "people who invented something, stood for something, said something, who defied the naysayers and not only changed their own lives, but the lives of people all over the world.
Writing and Ruminating - A Strange Place to Call Home by Marilyn ... by kellyrfineman (2012/07/26 08:35)
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Writing and Ruminating - Sonnet 55 by William Shakespeare by kellyrfineman (2012/05/09 16:22)
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All the privilege I claim for my own sex . . . is that of loving longest by kellyrfineman (2012/04/06 04:17)
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Easter Poems - Squidoo by unknown (2012/02/24 11:22)
Easter conjures up the beautiful new beginnings of Spring, a new flowering of the seasons after a long cold Winter. Little wonder Easter has been the ... As if the zummer wer begun; An' he had sich a bit o' fun! He meade the maidens squeal an' run, Because 'twer Easter Zunday. William Barnes 1801-1886. I love this poem. It can only be read properly by affecting a deep growly Dorset accent, and imagining oneself to be a wizened old farm worker. William Barnes wrote Easter Zunday ...
BookSpeak!: Poems About Books by Laura Purdie Salas by kellyrfineman (2012/02/20 11:25)
Having read it, I can assure you that, based on the quality of the poems and the wonderful illustrations, I'd have bought this book anyway, even if I didn't count the author as a personal friend. It contains 21 poems about books, ...
The Solitary Walker: Hölderlin's Tower by The Solitary Walker (2012/01/19 06:12)
A cataclysmic event in Hölderlin's life was his love affair with Susette Gontard, the wife of Frankfurt banker Jakob Gontard, who employed the poet as a private tutor. Hölderlin was dismissed when the affair was discovered, but ...
New Secret Garden album – Winter Poem - New Age Music World by John P. Olsen (2011/12/20 12:53)
The new Winter Poem album by Secret Garden was released with much fanfare in November of 2011. It was during my interview with Fionnuala Sherry about her solo release Songs From Before, when Secret Garden fans ...
Tough Boy Sonatas - a One Shot World Tour/Under the Radar post by kellyrfineman (2011/11/16 07:50)
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Poem of the Day » Monotony by Constantine P. Cavafy by rinabeana (2011/03/16 02:31)
March 2011, 4:31 Uhrconstantine p. cavafyrinabeana. Well, this sure sums up how I've felt for much of this past winter. At present, the snow is melting, the temperature is rising, and the ground is muddy and covered with trash ...
Poem of the Day » The Moon by Robert Creeley by rinabeana (2011/03/03 17:29)
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Poem of the Day » The Secret of Backs by Dorianne Laux by rinabeana (2011/03/02 18:02)
My poetry pal sent this. For some reason I thought it was The Secret of Books and was confused until about the fourth stanza when I thought to look at the title again. (HA!) You can tell where my mind goes… The poem is from Laux's The Book of Men. The Secret of Backs By Dorianne Laux ... In winter the creases of American-made jeans: blue denim seams worried to white threads. And in summer, in spring, beneath the hems of skirts, Bermudas, old bathing suit elastic ...
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Alex: I read the UK edition, Sophia's Secret, and to be honest, I find the name The Winter Sea more poetic and more suitable to this story. The sea is an omnipresent element and when I look at Sophia's Secret cover, I think of a ...
Poem of the Day » Roads go ever ever on by J.R.R. Tolkien by rinabeana (2010/05/06 17:25)
Roads go ever ever on. THE HOBBIT, CHAPTER 19. By J.R.R. Tolkien. Roads go ever ever on, Over rock and under tree, By caves where never sun has shone, By streams that never find the sea; Over snow by winter sown, ...
Poem of the Day » Serving with Gideon by William Stafford by rinabeana (2010/05/05 16:26)
I remember winter light closing / its great blue fist slowly eastward / along the street, and the dark then, deep / as war, arched over a radio show / called the thirties in the great old U.S.A. / Look down, stars—I was almost ...
Its Maÿ! | Fr. Z's Blog (olim: What Does The Prayer Really Say?) by frz@wdtprs.com (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) (2010/05/01 09:09)
William Barnes (1801-1886), Maÿ, from Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1898), pp. 20-22. ... The weather's warm, the winter blast, ... Mid zummer's zunny days be gone, ...
Poem of the Day » Demeter by Carol Ann Duffy by rinabeana (2010/04/01 18:56)
Where I lived—winter and hard earth. I sat in my cold stone room choosing ... Beth, 9. April 2010, 20:02. I love this poem so much, the last two lines especially, even though this isn't the sort of poetry I'm usually into. So, thanks ...
Poem of the Day » Underwear by Lawrence Ferlinghetti by rinabeana (2010/03/06 18:27)
And poetry still the underwear of the soul / And underwear still covering / a multitude of faults / in the geological sense— / strange sedimentary stones, inscrutable cracks! / If I were you I'd keep aside / an oversize pair of winter ...
Poem of the Day » Snowmen by Agha Shahid Ali by rinabeana (2010/02/22 17:42)
from son to grandson, / generations of snowmen on my back. / They tap every year on my window, / their voices hushed to ice. / No, they won't let me out of winter, / and I've promised myself, / even if I'm the last snowman, ...
Poem of the Day » Poetry is the Art of Not Succeeding by Joe Salerno by rinabeana (2010/01/31 12:28)
go running to. / O blessed rainy day, glorious / as a paper bag. The kingdom of poetry / is like this—quiet, anonymous, / a dab of sunlight on the back of your hand, / a view out the window just before dusk. / It's an art more shadow than statue, / and has something to do with your dreams / running out—a bare branch darkening / on a winter sky, the week-old snow / frozen into something hard. / It's an art as simple as drinking water / from a tin cup; of loving that moment ...
Poem of the Day » Winter-Time by Robert Louis Stevenson by rinabeana (2010/01/24 14:29)
Late lies the wintry sun a-bed, / A frosty, fiery sleepy-head; / Blinks but an hour or two; and then, / A blood-red orange, sets again. / Before the stars have left the skies, / At morning in the dark I rise; / And shivering in my ...
Writing and Ruminating - A Winter's Persuasion - Chapter Eight by kellyrfineman (2010/01/11 21:30)
The only time I ever really suffered in body or mind, the only time that I ever fancied myself unwell, or had any ideas of danger, was the winter that I passed by myself at Deal, when the Admiral (Captain Croft then) was in the North Seas. .... While some folks believe that the woman referred to in the poem was merely the subject of a scandal, I believe that she is dead - bearing much in common with your novel, now that the hearer is forced to listen as people discuss the ...
Poem of the Day » There's a certain Slant of light by Emily Dickinson by rinabeana (2009/12/28 19:04)
Winter Afternoons— / That oppresses, like the Heft / Of Cathedral Tunes— / Heavenly Hurt, it gives us— / We can find no scar, / But internal difference, / Where the Meanings, are— / None may teach it—Any— / 'Tis the Seal ...
H. P. Lovecraft And His Legacy: Lovecraft Poem to Honor Winter ... by Chris Perridas (2009/12/20 22:01)
Winter Solstice! / _____ / Yule Horror / by H. P. Lovecraft / There is snow on the ground, / And the valleys are cold, / And a midnight profound / Blackly squats o'er the wold; / But a light on the hilltops half-seen hints of feastings ...
Poem of the Day » To Juan at the Winter Solstice by Robert Graves by rinabeana (2009/10/30 16:57)
To Juan at the Winter Solstice By Robert Graves. There is one story and one story only. That will prove worth your telling, Whether are learned bard or gifted child; To it all lines or lesser gauds belong. That startle with their ...
Poem of the Day » Mrs Darwin by Carol Ann Duffy by rinabeana (2009/05/17 08:45)
My absolute favorite: And Did Those Feet - William Blake, and some good ones: Full Fathom Five - William Shakespeare and Western Wind - Anonymous is good too. Also, may I suggest some of Tim Burton's poetry? It's really ...
Poem of the Day » The Snow Man by Wallace Stevens by rinabeana (2009/03/24 17:15)
Of course, after reading Marianne Moore's delightful comment about Stevens, I had to go find another poem to share. I can't say that I think this one is ... One must have a mind of winter. To regard the frost and the boughs ...
Poem of the Day » Winter Remembered by John Crowe Ransom by rinabeana (2009/03/03 18:55)
Of course, this poem isn't really about literal winter. It's a wonderful way to convey the despair of the speaker, though. Winter Remembered By John Crowe Ransom. Two evils, monstrous either one apart, Possessed me, and ...
Poem of the Day » Georgia Beach by Margaret Atwood by rinabeana (2009/02/15 18:54)
I like how Atwood has highlighted differences in perspective with this poem. My favorite lines are Empty can mean either/peaceful or desolate. I also like the comment at the end that we (I assume that to mean humans) are the ...
Poem of the Day » The perpetual migration by Marge Piercy by rinabeana (2009/01/17 14:29)
The brightness, the angle, the sighting of the stars shines in the brain luring till the inner constellation matches the outer. The stark black rocks, the island beaches of waveworn pebbles where it will winter look right to it.
Poem of the Day » Tulips by Sylvia Plath by rinabeana (2009/01/15 18:32)
If I didn't know she was the author, I'd assume a poem entitled Tulips would actually be about flowers/nature/happiness/etc. Now I'm a tiny bit afraid of tulips… Tulips By Sylvia Plath The tulips are too excitable, it is winter here.
Sermon for Christmas Eve 2008 - For the fainthearted . . . by Ian Poulton (2008/12/23 12:09)
I once had a book, sadly now lost, of poems by Thomas Barnes, who wrote in Dorset dialect. Here is one of his you may like. Zummer An' Winter. When I led by zummer streams. The pride o' Lea, as naighbours thought her, ... William Barnes. Ian Poulton December 24th, 2008 9:52 pm. Baino, That's Vincent Browne's line in today's 'Irish Times'. I'm not sure one can separate the moral teaching from the spiritual claims; if the latter are delusional, then we must ask what ...
Poem of the Day » Oranges by Gary Soto by rinabeana (2008/08/14 19:37)
it an exellcent poem for doing business. Jacqueline Paton, 28. May 2009, 11:38. i love this poem it is soo sweet =]. brianna, 20. November 2009, 1:14 ... November 2009, 12:17. very good poem bout the kindness of strangers ...
Poem of the Day » The Pomegranate by Eavan Boland by rinabeana (2008/05/12 06:08)
I walked out in a summer twilight searching for my daughter at bed-time. When she came running I was ready to make any bargain ... It is winter and the stars are hidden. I climb the stairs and stand where I can see my child asleep beside her teen magazines, her can of Coke, her plate of uncut fruit. The pomegranate! How did I forget it? She could have come home and been safe and ended the story and all our heart-broken searching but she reached out a hand and ...
Poem of the Day » The Mind Is an Ancient and Famous Capital by ... by rinabeana (2008/04/19 05:21)
After the gold fall, the fallen ash, the bronze, / Scattered and rotten, after the white null statues which / Are winter, sleep, and nothingness: when / Will the houselights of the universe / Light up and blaze? / For it is not the sea ...
Poem of the Day » New Heavens for Old by Amy Lowell by rinabeana (2008/03/25 04:26)
A yellow one. I fuss over their arrangement. Then I sit in a South window. And sip pale wine with a touch of hemlock in it, And think of Winter nights, And field-mice crossing and re-crossing. The spot which will be my grave.
Poem of the Day » Song By Cecil Day-Lewis by rinabeana (2007/12/13 05:26)
And thou shalt read of summer frocks: At evening by the sour canals. We'll hope to hear ... Current Tea: winter dreams (black tea with chocolate flavoring and peppermint leaves). Trackback-URL · comments feed for this post ...
Poem of the Day » The Bus to Alliston, Ontario by Margaret Atwood by rinabeana (2007/11/19 06:28)
The bus charges this winter, / a whale or blunt gray / tank, wind whipping its flank. / Inside, we sit wool- / swathed and over-furred, made stodgy / by the heat, our boots / puddling the floor, our Christmas bundles / stuffed around ...
Poem of the Day » Europe: A Prophecy by William Blake by rinabeana (2007/10/06 09:51)
A Prophecy. The deep of winter came, What time the Secret Child Descended through the orient gates of the Eternal day: War ceas'd, and all the troops like shadows fled to their abodes. Then Enitharmon saw her sons and daughters rise around ; ... I see thee with thy innumerable race, Thick as the summer stars; But each, ramping, his golden mane shakes, And thine eyes rejoice because of strength, O Rintrah, furious King!' Enitharmon slept. Eighteen hundred years.
Poem of the Day » Washington Crossing the Delaware by David ... by rinabeana (2007/10/05 04:41)
During trivia lunch, we had this question (from Trivial Pursuit Genus IV): How many of the 14 lines of David Shulman's 1936 poem Washington Crossing the Delaware are anagrams of the title? I (correctly) guessed that the ...
MODERN ARTHURIAN SHORT STORIES by unknown (2002/01/31 17:00)
"The Doorway to Summer Stars". THE CAMELOT CHRONICLES. Ed. Mike Ashley. New York: Carroll and Graf, 1992. [Reprinted by Wings Books, 1995.] Contents: "To Camelot"—A Poem by Theodore Goodridge Roberts "Belle Dame, Sans Merci"—Vera Chapman "The Winning of a Sword"—Howard Pyle "The Storming .... "The Castle of Kerglas"—Emile Souvestre "Ogier The Dane"—William Morris ... "Iontioren's Tale"—Paul Edwin Zimmer "Winter Tales"—Adrienne Martine-Barnes ...
This Day in History for 17th October | HistoryOrb.com by unknown (2001/01/31 17:00)
1959 - "Billy Barnes Revue" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 87 perfs 1959 - Queen Elizabeth is fined $140 for withdrawing her race .... 1806 - Jean Jacques Dessalines, Emperor of Haiti, dies 1825 - Peter Winter, composer, dies at 71 ... 1910 - William V Moody, US poet (Sabine Woman, Great Divide), dies 1917 - Maria J "Marie" Bakker, actress/wife of Maarten ... 1996 - Christopher Acland, musician, dies at 30 1997 - Paul Edwin Zimmer, sci-fi writer, dies of heart attack at 54 ...
BIBLIOGRAPHY of GAELIC ARTHURIAN LITERATURE by unknown (2001/01/31 17:00)
1.1 Early References to an "Arthur". 1.2 Lebor Bretnach (the Irish translation of the Historia Brittonum). 1.3 Prose Works. 1.4 Poetic Works. 1.5 Genealogical. 1.6 Miscellaneous ..... See also Breatnach and Mhág Craith (this section, below) for the same poem. (Ir) Breatnach, Pádraig A., "The Aesthetics of Irish Bardic Composition: An Analysis of Fuaras iongnadh, a fhir chumainn by Fearghal Óg Mac an Bhaird," Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies, 42 (Winter 2001), 51-72. A reprint of the ...

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