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'Lift thine eyes, O lift thine eyes,
behold the mountain's crown,
heed not a frailty of craft,
rough rocks and storms that drown...'
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#Hope and #Faith
1st Sunday of #Advent
#art Hans Gude (with a little assistance from Adolph Tidemand)
'How does it then,
the apparition of that scent,
carry on a zephyr's breath
haunting the nostrils of the mind
invading the sinuses
as piquantly and potently
as Proust's bitten madeleine cake?'
L'Air du Temps https://t.co/UvB0o2f276 < #poem #poetry #nostalgia The memory of airs
Swan Song https://t.co/vwH8JoGqOO
'The days are sweet with lavender,
rosemary, hibiscus and lilies,
bees suck petal-satin throats,
thrum a hum of multiverse,
melting veils, imparting honey
to chaste Cecilia's song...'
#StCecilia #OTD #music
Blood Brothers and Rival Camps https://t.co/c991ZajDSL 'His parents, on the whole, were glad rather than sorry about his coming, his father observing that at least here was a little mendicant who could be offset against tax...' < #19thcentury #Georgian #histfic #biographical
All Hallows' Eve
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A #poem of celebration < #AllHallowsEve
'All-presuming is the night
and thin the treaty with the light...'
Margaret Agnes Bunn, #Scottish actress, was 'ushered into life' on October 26th, 1799 and was to launch early into an eventful career. #Georgian and #Victorian #Theatre #19thCentury
Byron, Berkeley and Mrs Bunn https://t.co/500QoBzTHe
'Anne wrote poetry and entertained her friends, while John kept a substantial menagerie where unlikely species were reputed to live in the kind of harmony...' https://t.co/x0yCoRAw5u
Died #OTD 1793, John Hunter, surgeon and scientist. Also d. Marie Antoinette, Queen of #France
Asking A Shadow To Dance https://t.co/ZxWDqOcemb Muses on the question "What is poetry." #NationalPoetryDay
Ask yourself: What kind of *economy* is it that jobs need to be 'created' when the planet is screaming for stewardship?
#economy #theplanet
#art George Frederic Watts
Nostalgia In Reverse https://t.co/Ucoi7we466 #poem #poetrylovers < #art Charles Vickery
'Westerlies
clouds shafted with gold
Atlantic
travellers without
frontiers...'