by phillipw | May 24, 2020 | AR, FO, HE, LO, PH, PR, QU
Arcachon, Summer, 1923, White-Blond Hair “quite too adorable for words, a perfect pet, so grown up & speaks quite a lot & uses grand phrases. He is the sturdiest little boy I have ever seen & I can’t say he is spoilt.’ ~ Louise, Queen of Sweden,...
by phillipw | May 24, 2020 | PH, PR
Lighthearted in Italy: Beginnings of British Insouciance At eighteen months the Attic prince was laid Inside a fruit crate on the ship that took His family into exile with a maid Or two and valet. Nanny calmly shook A blanket over him that winter...
by phillipw | May 24, 2020 | EL, PH, PR, QU
The Poet Passes through Surrey while Reading Young Prince Philip More like a colt than other creatures, born A colt with slim limb beauty and with lock Of blondness down his forehead to adorn It, princely maleness made those near him gawk. He was not a Greek god or a...
by phillipw | May 24, 2020 | PH, PR
What Comes from Having a British Housekeeper He, raised on Scottish porridge in the land Of ancient Greeks, on tapioca, rice, And other British blandness, grows a gland Enlarged enough that it can thrust and slice Its way to royal climax in a queen. That phyllo...
by phillipw | May 24, 2020 | PH, PR
Even as an Actor in Macbeth Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem He wore a white gold crown wherever he Was living, Denmark, Greece, and also here In Scotland and in England. Like a spree Of happiness, he...
