Happy Father’s Day
on June 19, 2011
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Father! – to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth Support the WWF and send your Dad e-card for Father’s Day. Thank you!
Two Lovers by George Eliot
on May 22, 2011
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Two lovers by a moss-grown spring: They leaned soft cheeks together there, Mingled the dark and sunny hair, And heard the wooing thrushes sing. O budding time! O love’s blest prime! Two wedded from the portal stept: The bells made … read more
A Mother’s Lament by Robert Burns
on May 7, 2010
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FOR THE DEATH OF HER SON. [“The Mother’s Lament,” says the poet, in a copy of the verses now before me, “was composed partly with a view to Mrs. Fergusson of Craigdarroch, and partly to the worthy patroness of my early unknown … read more
A Lover’s Complaint by William Shakespeare
on April 20, 2010
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FROM off a hill whose concave womb reworded A plaintful story from a sistering vale, My spirits to attend this double voice accorded, And down I laid to list the sad-tuned tale; Ere long espied a fickle maid full pale, … read more
The Beauties by Anton Chekhov
on April 11, 2010
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Have you ever been in one and the same room with a bunch of teenagers? I have! This weekend was my niece’s 14th birthday. She invited us and all of her girlfriends to her girly birthday party. There it was, my brother’s … read more
Pioneers! O Pioneers! by Walt Whitman
on March 31, 2010
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Come my tan-faced children, Follow well in order, get your weapons ready, Have you your pistols? have you your sharp-edged axes? Pioneers! O pioneers! For we cannot tarry here, We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of … read more
The Fear by Robert Frost
on March 14, 2010
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A LANTERN light from deeper in the barn Shone on a man and woman in the door And threw their lurching shadows on a house Near by, all dark in every glossy window. A horse’s hoof pawed once the hollow … read more
