by phillipw | May 13, 2020 | FE, ME, MU, RI, RO, WA
The Descent from the Scottish Highlands and Luzern Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The melodies that go on long and fine, And long and long, without a gap or pause Streamed out from Mendelssohn. An...
by phillipw | Feb 2, 2020 | FE, LE
[When this sonnet was written, Patrick Leigh Fermor’s trilogy of books about his walk from the Hook of Holland to Istanbul (which he refused to call Istanbul) had still not been finished. Indeed, it never was. The third volume was called appropriately The...
by phillipw | Jan 16, 2020 | FE, LE
A Wintry Gift According to Leigh Fermor, Keats was found In rooms filled up with antlers in a schloss Which Patrick visited. A Horace bound In gilding and in green he took across The continent—a sixteen hundreds book. It was a baron’s volume handed to...
by phillipw | Oct 16, 2019 | FE, MA
Academic 501s With features so refined they almost preach Of sweetness, he requires those whiskers to Proclaim his maleness. Pastel bristles reach Out towards a girliness, though they are true To masculinity in thickness and Conviction. Heaviness of eyelids...
