tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46587387605169334632024-02-08T14:11:42.156+00:00Poem a Dayfor a year or maybe longer as inspiration and energy last...which as you can see, ran out mid-year. But I may resume when life gets less manic.
Blog by Stephanie GreenStephanie Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15407799411075936058noreply@blogger.comBlogger188125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4658738760516933463.post-9690666747941906422015-12-14T14:50:00.001+00:002015-12-14T14:52:19.763+00:00Jan Wagner<a href="http://poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/an-essay-on-midges/">An essay on midges</a><br />
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'An Essay on Midges' comes from Jan Wagner's 'A Swarm of Bees' translated by Iain Galbraith (published by Arc, 2015) has won the Popescu Prize for Translation.Stephanie Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15407799411075936058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4658738760516933463.post-60899306613119523892015-06-13T11:33:00.002+01:002015-06-13T11:33:35.460+01:00Kim MooreA selection of poems on her web page. Of these, I think 'I'm Thinking of my Father' and 'Teaching the Trumpet' are my favourites. Click <a href="https://kimmoorepoet.wordpress.com/poems/">here</a><br />
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I love her whole collection 'The Art of Falling' (Seren, 2015)<br />
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<br />Stephanie Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15407799411075936058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4658738760516933463.post-78177574592781769692015-04-20T10:33:00.002+01:002015-04-20T10:33:22.484+01:00Naomi Shihab Nye<br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQGFpI-W5og">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQGFpI-W5og</a>Stephanie Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15407799411075936058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4658738760516933463.post-33571828437375719902014-12-13T12:21:00.001+00:002014-12-13T12:21:17.341+00:00Ye Mimi film poem<div class="uiContextualLayerParent" id="globalContainer" style="background-color: #e9eaed; margin: 0px auto; padding-right: 205px; position: relative; width: 976px; zoom: 1;">
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They are there but I am not. Film poem by Ye Mimi. (Thanks to George Szirtes for sharing this on Facebook.)<br />
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Stephanie Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15407799411075936058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4658738760516933463.post-56980332625098560392014-10-04T13:42:00.000+01:002014-10-04T13:42:14.334+01:00Seamus HeaneySeamus Heaney's last poem<br />
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On Banks of a Canal painting by Caillebotte published <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/oct/03/seamus-heaney-last-poem-national-gallery-ireland-anthology">in National-gallery-ireland-anthology</a>Stephanie Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15407799411075936058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4658738760516933463.post-5428291171157291442014-10-03T12:35:00.000+01:002014-10-04T13:42:44.142+01:00<br />
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<a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/180106">The Colonel by Carolyn Forche</a><br />
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<br />Stephanie Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15407799411075936058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4658738760516933463.post-72313386808515314352014-08-20T10:31:00.001+01:002014-08-20T10:31:18.213+01:00Billy CollinsForgetfullness by Billy Collins.<br />
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I'm getting to that stage already. Stephanie Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15407799411075936058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4658738760516933463.post-26963197415786748352014-04-24T18:12:00.000+01:002014-04-24T18:12:00.023+01:00Rita Ann HigginsRita Ann Higgins<br />
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Some People https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nW9hML9qrI<br />
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and a hilarious interview, great craic but also, I promise you, some poems...especially one sobering one at the end on the after-effects of the Celtic Tiger.<br />
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aZQXgaXWQ8<br />
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Stephanie Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15407799411075936058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4658738760516933463.post-40228270128273653342014-04-23T18:09:00.000+01:002015-06-13T11:52:21.171+01:00Carolyn Jess-Cooke<br />
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<a href="https://poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/hare/">Hare</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.literaryorphans.org/playdb/six-poems-carolyn-jess-cooke/">carolyn-jess-cooke 6 Poems</a><br />
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<br />Stephanie Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15407799411075936058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4658738760516933463.post-33971201681550972212014-04-22T18:08:00.000+01:002015-06-13T11:55:47.162+01:00Niall CampbellThe Letter always arrives at its Destination<br />
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<a href="http://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poetry/poems/letter-always-arrives-its-destination">here</a><br />
<br />Stephanie Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15407799411075936058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4658738760516933463.post-1538394187227852562014-04-21T18:01:00.000+01:002015-06-13T11:59:42.634+01:00Richie McCafferySpinning Plates<br />
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<a href="http://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poetry/poems/spinning-plates">Here</a>Stephanie Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15407799411075936058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4658738760516933463.post-17799192202305598452014-04-20T18:02:00.000+01:002014-04-20T18:02:00.201+01:00Enda Coyle-Greenehttp://www.munsterlit.ie/Southword/Issues/19/coylegreene_enda.htmlStephanie Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15407799411075936058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4658738760516933463.post-46838579137756163172014-04-19T17:56:00.000+01:002014-04-19T17:56:00.076+01:00Jan WagnerTeabag<br />
http://stanzapoetry.org/2014/participant.php?participant=668Stephanie Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15407799411075936058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4658738760516933463.post-22111427990244371892014-04-18T17:54:00.000+01:002015-06-13T12:10:18.477+01:00Geraldine Mitchell<a href="http://www.munsterlit.ie/Southword/Issues/17/Poetry/mitchell_geraldine.html">Here</a><br />
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Geraldine was shortlisted for the Strokestown Poetry Festival, 2014 in county Roscommon, Ireland.<br />
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<br />Stephanie Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15407799411075936058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4658738760516933463.post-87042113370017855772014-04-17T22:38:00.000+01:002015-06-13T12:12:44.199+01:00Sinead Morrissey<a href="https://www.foe.co.uk/living/articles/poem_month_lighthouse_sinead_morrisey_40778">Lighthouse</a>Stephanie Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15407799411075936058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4658738760516933463.post-46912097794347867572014-04-15T22:31:00.002+01:002014-04-15T22:31:50.603+01:00Gillian Allnuthttp://www.sydneycyclist.info/Home/cycling_poetry/ode-by-gillian-allnutStephanie Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15407799411075936058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4658738760516933463.post-6322988758409486042012-12-31T19:23:00.000+00:002012-12-31T19:23:00.121+00:00Louis MacNeice<br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRDS-L_rRvg">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRDS-L_rRvg</a>Stephanie Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15407799411075936058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4658738760516933463.post-83508957930483883262012-12-30T19:19:00.000+00:002012-12-30T19:19:00.157+00:00Anon - Sir Patrick Spens<strong style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">Sir Patrick Spens</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">The king sits in Dumferling town</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">Drinking the bluid-red wine:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">'O whar will I get a guid sailor</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">To sail this ship of mine?'</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">Up and spak an eldern knicht,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">Sat at the king's richt knee:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">'Sir Patrick Spens is the best sailor</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">That sails upon the sea.'</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">The king has written a braid letter</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">And signed it wi' his hand,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">And sent it to Sir Patrick Spens,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">Was walking on the sand.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">The first line that Sir Patrick read</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">A loud lauch lauched he; laugh, laughed</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">The next line that Sir Patrick read,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">The tear blinded his ee.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">'O wha is this has done this deed,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">This ill deed done to me,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">To send me out this time o'the year,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">To sail upon the sea?</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">'Mak haste, mak haste, my mirry men all,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">Our guid ship sails the morn.'</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">'O say na sae, my master dear,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">For I fear a deadly storm.'</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">'Late, late yestre'en I saw the new moon</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">Wi'the old moon in his arm,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">And I fear, I fear, my dear master,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">That we will come to harm.'</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">O our Scots nobles were richt laith</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">To weet their cork-heeled shoon,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">But lang or a' the play were played</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">Their hats they swam aboon.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">O lang, lang may their ladies sit,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">Wi'their fans into their hand,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">Or ere they see Sir Patrick Spens</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">Come sailing to the land.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">O lang, lang may the ladies stand</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">Wi'their gold kems in their hair,</span><br style="background-color: white; 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http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoem.do?poemId=6264<a href="http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoem.do?poemId=6264">http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoem.do?poemId=6264 </a><br />
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David Harsent is shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot prize, 2011. See<a href="http://www.poetrybooks.org.uk/"> http://www.poetrybooks.org.uk/</a>Stephanie Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15407799411075936058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4658738760516933463.post-21328560948703852262012-12-27T20:41:00.000+00:002012-12-27T20:41:00.698+00:00Shakespeare - song<br />
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Blow, blow, thou winter wind,<br />Thou art not so unkind<br />As man's ingratitude;<br />Thy tooth is not so keen<br />Because thou art not seen,<br />Although thy breath be rude.<br />Heigh-ho! sing heigh-ho! unto the green holly:<br />Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly:<br />Then, heigh-ho! the holly!<br />This life is most jolly.<br />
Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky,<br />Thou dost not bite so nigh<br />As benefits forgot:<br />Though thou the waters warp,<br />Thy sting is not so sharp<br />As friend remember'd not.<br />Heigh-ho! sing heigh-ho! unto the green holly:<br />Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly:<br />Then, heigh-ho! the holly!<br />This life is most jolly.<br />(<i>As You Like It</i>, 2.7.181-201)</div>
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Stephanie Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15407799411075936058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4658738760516933463.post-80075668944983633212012-12-26T08:00:00.000+00:002012-12-26T08:00:07.332+00:00T.S.Eliot<br />
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All this was a long time ago, I remember,<br />And I would do it again, but set down<br />This set down<br />This: were we led all that way for<br />Birth or Death? There was a Birth, certainly,<br />We had evidence and no doubt. I had seen birth and death,<br />But had thought they were different; this Birth was<br />Hard and bitter agony for us, like Death, our death.<br />We returned to our places, these Kingdoms,<br />But no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation,<br />With an alien people clutching their gods.<br />I should be glad of another death.<br />
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Note: the Journey of the Magi, or Three Wise Men or Three Kings is celebrated at the Feast of the Ephiphany, on January 6th, by Christians but I am posting it here, as the Three Kings are always associated with Christmas, especially in children's Nativity plays.</ul>
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I sing of a maiden<br />That is makeless. <em></em><br />King of all kinges<br />To her son she ches. <span style="font-style: italic;"></span><br /><br />He came all so stille<br />There his mother was<br />As dew in Aprille<br />That falleth on grass.<br /><br />He came all so stille<br />To his mother’s bower<br />As dew in Aprille<br />That falleth on the flower.<br /><br />He came all so stille<br />There his mother lay,<br />As dew in Aprille<br />That falleth on the spray.<br /><br />Mother and maiden<br />Was never none but she;<br />Well may such a lady<br />Godès mother be! <span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;"><em><br /></em></span><br />
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Twas the Night before Christmas by Clement C. Moore<br /><a href="http://www.carols.org.uk/twas_the_night_before_christmas.htm" style="color: #4d469c; text-decoration: initial;">http://www.carols.org.uk/twas_the_night_before_christmas.htm</a><br />Scroll down to video.<br /><br />Or you may prefer the Swingle Singers' version for schmaltz.<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smUal-IclAQ" style="color: #4d469c; text-decoration: initial;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smUal-IclAQ</a><br />There are lots of versions on You Tube, each more schmaltzy than the next. I'll leave you to indulge or avoid, as you prefer.</div>
Stephanie Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15407799411075936058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4658738760516933463.post-73762228503941817992012-12-23T08:00:00.000+00:002012-12-23T08:00:07.174+00:00Dylan Thomas<br />
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A Child's Christmas in Wales- a 'prose poem'.<br /><br /><br />Dylan Thomas himself reading <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjCJd9Bc-qA" style="color: #4d469c; text-decoration: initial;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjCJd9Bc-qA</a><br /><br />Text here: <a href="http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-child-s-christmas-in-wales/" style="color: #4d469c; text-decoration: initial;">http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-child-s-christmas-in-wales/</a></div>
Stephanie Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15407799411075936058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4658738760516933463.post-69890983798813200392012-12-22T08:00:00.000+00:002012-12-22T08:00:08.295+00:00Louis MacNeice - Snow<br />
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Spawning snow and pink roses against it
Soundlessly collateral and incompatible:
World is suddener than we fancy it.
World is crazier and more of it than we think,
Incorrigibly plural. I peel and portion
A tangerine and spit the pips and feel
The drunkenness of things being various.
And the fire flames with a bubbling sound for world
Is more spiteful and gay than one supposes -
On the tongue on the eyes on the ears in the palms of one's hands -
There is more than glass between the snow and the huge roses.</pre>
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