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Parts Song “Take, oh Take Those Lips Away”

by | May 26, 2020 | CH, HU, LO, RO, SE, SH, ST, TW, WI

                      Parts Song “Take, oh Take Those Lips Away” “(sung at the Eton College Concert)” ~ Emily Daymond Take, oh take those lips away, That so sweetly were forsworn, And those eyes: the breake of day, Lights that do mislead the Morn; But my kisses bring...

Arcachon, Summer, 1923, White-Blond Hair

by | 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,...

Words without Song:  a Sonnet

by | May 22, 2020 | FO, LO, LU, PO, PR

Words without Song:  a Sonnet [This sonnet sticks to all the rules for a sonnet except that it is laid out on the page as if it were five paragraphs of prose.] Is love a spate of rhyming in the veins? Or is it even less, a bit of plot (inside a thousand paperbacks)...

Hotmail

by | May 20, 2020 | EM, LO, LU

          Hotmail I still remember writing words of love On notes of vellum-colored paper, rich And stiff as passion, smoother than a glove Of silk so sleek it seemed no tidy stitch Was needed.  (What has tidiness to do With steel desire?)  I still recall the cards Of...

Barraqué Breaks Off Their Love

by | May 20, 2020 | BA, FO, GA, Ho, JE, LO, MI

Barraqué Breaks Off Their Love The breaking off of love is not a small Affair.  It’s not like breaking off a limb That’s hanging from a tree.  It’s not at all Like breaking off the singing of a hymn Because the practice isn’t going right. It’s more like sacrilege,...