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The Greek Myths

                      The Greek Myths   The Greek Myths    (After re-reading Robert Graves’s The Greek Myths)                                        i.        The Greek mythologers have given to the world, (In stories of their great divinities and tales Of heroes and of heroines almost as great As […]

Tchaikovsky's Sixth Symphony

       Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Symphony   Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Symphony   This last and greatest composition floods     Emotions through the caverns of my sense         As when high spring-tides swell to full expanse     Of their majestic reach. All human moods Are touchingly evoked through these deep themes     Which thrill the ultimate extremes […]

Cricket

                                Cricket   Cricket                         (After L. Smart)         A village church-spire watching from nearby; a white, Red-roofed pavilion shaded by trees. In front, Upon a close-mown […]

Bath

Bath   Bath                        (After a photograph)   Here is a structured question-mark. The gold      Great Crescent’s elegant façade sweeps round          To meet straitBrock Street’s subfusc straight that guides            Towards a perfect ornate roundel […]

Cooking the Books?

                             Cooking the Books? “Why rushed the discords in but that harmony should be prized?”                                       (Abt Vogler: by R. Browning)   Perhaps we […]

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