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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 […]
Balshazzar's Feast
Balshazzar’s Feast Balshzzar’s Feast (539 BC) Wild was the music played In Babylon; Rare the fine foods arrayed And rich the robes displayed In Babylon, At King Balshazzar’s feast. How merry was the sport In Babylon, And […]
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 […]
Night Force
Night Force Those ‘Nights that brought [him] to her body bare’ Could they not also strip his heart for her? What fuels his passion’s consummating fires Could that not spark the words she so desires? O those bare nights and that occluded heart, (Pulled close by longing, by fear held […]
To Please My Sense
To Please My Sense To Please My Sense (Eriu – Ireland) Coquette colleen! Such drear, dull clothes curtail Your splendours wrapping them behind a veil Of dropping, drooping, drab obscurity. […]
Cooking the Books?
Cooking the Books? “Why rushed the discords in but that harmony should be prized?” (Abt Vogler: by R. Browning) Perhaps we […]
Winter Gales
Winter Gales Those galling gales, which in rough Winter rush Across bald-headed mountaintops exposed To their wild buffetings as captives to Some hateful prison-master’s vicious scourge: Over the cringing, wooded-hillsides’ slopes They violently hasten with rude roars, Like raging sea-surges pounding rock shores Intemperately. All the laggard leaves They […]
The Fox
The Fox As one, the fox and I were motionless. Along the cool, sun-dappled path between Tall-colonnaded trees – his tawny fur Glistening with points of golden light, his dark Eyes starred with bright intelligence; sharp-nosed White-toothed, pink tongue a-loll, inquisitive, […]
Hawk
Hawk Hawk I saw a hunting hawk today, over Near fields, on trembling feathers hanging high; And marvelled at the link of brain to limb Which gave such perfect mastery of flight: Until it stone-dropped suddenly from view, Then rose again, triumphantly, above The fringing boscage trailing, in clasped feet, The abject […]