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Ode To Autumn – Poem by John Keats Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves run; To bend with … Continue reading →

The Poetry Wall is mended at last. This advice is for those of us always on a diet. Henry King who Chewed Bits of String, and Was Early Cut off in Dreadful Agonies. The chief defect of Henry King Was chewing … Continue reading →

Advice to a young man     Hamlet Act1 Scene 3      Polonius to Laertes Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple … Continue reading →

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsALgi5yM_A http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIW_Ah0wg-w “The Way You Look Tonight” Some day, when I’m awfully low When the world is cold I will feel a glow just thinking of you And the way you look tonight Yes, you’re lovely, with your smile so … Continue reading →

Japanese Jokes                   for Anthony Thwaite       Peter Porter   In his winged collar he  flew. The nation wanted peace. Our Perseus!   William Blake, William Blake, William Blake, William Blake, say it and feel new!   Love without sex is still … Continue reading →

  The Lake Isle of Innisfree I WILL arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made: Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honeybee, And live … Continue reading →

Loveliest of Trees, The Cherry Now     A E Houseman Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide. Now, of my threescore years and … Continue reading →

St Kevin and the Blackbird And then there was St Kevin and the blackbird. The saint is kneeling, arms stretched out, inside His cell, but the cell is narrow, so One turned-up palm is out the window, stiff As a … Continue reading →

First day without rain for ages so the wall is out. You need to practise the ‘ch’ sound here.   SCOTTISH NAMES      Raymomd Vettese I love the names o Scotland; Ecclefechan, Auchenblae, Fordoun, Gourdon, Forfar, Kirkcudbright, Dunnichen, Echt, Panadram, Drumtochty, … Continue reading →