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Swinburne on Swinburne
Swinburne has long been my favorite poet, and on winter nights like tonight, I love to curl up with a small glass of some choice intoxicating liquor and read some intoxicating Swinburne verse. But I am aware that there are some who do not think, as I do, that Swinburne was the greatest English poet…
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The Internet Is Not Yet Full: A Brief Tale of Two Poems
In a brief moment of quiet this afternoon, I was browsing the poetry shelf in my home library today and noticed a book I did not know we owned: Sonnets of This Century, edited and arranged, with a critical introduction on the sonnet, by William Sharp. The little volume was published by Walter Scott of…
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Selections
from Félise by Swinburne Two gifts perforce he has given us yet, Though sad things stay and glad things fly ; Two gifts he has given us, to forget All glad and sad things that go by, And then to die. from Ilicet by Swinburne A little sorrow, a little pleasure, Fate metes us from…
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RE: Nephelidia
I tell ya, I’m such a sucker for alliteration. (That and lights on trees in the winter.) So, needless to say, I enjoyed the Swinburne poem you posted Mike. The snow is blowing out here in Nebraska, but not as high as the trees. That’s a good thing though since I intend to come home…
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Happy Birthday, Lawless
A poem in your honor:
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Snippets
From my law school applications: Lines Written Upon Reading the Caption Below a Picture of Natalie Portman with Her Hand Down the Back of Her Jeans, which Said Something about Ants in Her Pants by Me, Unfortunately Let us make haste, depart ; she will not dance. Let us quaff our drinks and leave for…
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A Leave-Taking
Counterpoint: A Leave-Taking by Algernon Charles Swinburne Let us go hence, my songs ; she will not hear. Let us go hence together without fear ; Keep silence now, for singing-time is over, And over all old things and all things dear. She loves not you nor me as all we love her. Yea, though…