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Time Stands Still

An air of deep unusualness greeted him, as he opened his door on a blustery autumn morning and set out to walk through the woods.

Faery Stories, Magic, Transcendance

From the Hymn of Empedocles

We overlook everyday beauty dogged by anxiety about the future.

Carpe Diem, Happiness, Joy, Live for Today, Mathew Arnold, Power of Now, Success
St Nectan's Church

Psalm 42- Where is Now Thy God?

Like as the hart desireth the water brooks, so longeth my soul after thee O God.

Book of Common Prayer, Churches, Psalms

What is the Purpose of Poetry?

Does poetry have a purpose? If so, then what? I noticed today that by far the majority of WordPresss bloggers … More

meaning, Muse, Poetry, Purpose

Crossing the Bar – Alfred Lord Tennyson

Sunset and evening star,
And one clear call for me!
And may there be no moaning of the bar,
When I put out to sea,

Death, Poetry Reading, Tennyson

Gerard Manley Hopkins – Heaven Haven

I HAVE desired to go
Where springs not fail,

A nun takes the veil, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Heaven-Haven, Refuge

My Old Sweet Etcetera – A Reading

For Eleanor.

This anti war poem, written by American poet EE Cummings and published in 1926, is such a perfect specimen of the genre.

ee cummings, General Melchett, my old sweet etcetera, war poets

La Belle Dame Sans Merci – John Keats – a Reading

Sometimes sad and sometimes not, our stories and our poems, our Green Ladies and our Belles Dames are reflections of our desires and anxieties.

Circe, Eve, Garden of Eden, iambic tetrameter, Keats La Belle Dame Sans Merci, Lady of the Green Kirtle, Lamia

A reading: Sonnet 18, Shakespeare

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? A reading.

Shakespeare: Sonnet 18, Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?, William Shakespeare

Shakespeare: Sonnet 18

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

Shakespeare: Sonnet 18, Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley

A Reading

Ozymandias, Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Percy Blythe Shelley, Romantic Poets, Shelley
stillness

If….by Rudyard Kipling

A reading of “If….” which I made for my YouTube channel.

If, If by Rudyard Kipling, Rudyard Kipling

John Keats – Ode To Autumn – a Reading

I have already written a few words about Ode to Autumn but felt minded to record my own reading of it.

John Keats, Keats Ode to Autumn, Poetry Reading, Recording of Ode to Autumn

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs….

Kipling’s poem “If” is profound and moving.

If, Rudyard Kipling

Ozymandias, King of Kings

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings

Percy Blythe Shelley, Romanticism

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