... hold me tight, and we'll have one more hour ...
Saturday, August 9, 2014
If We Were Back In Yorkshire ...
... I would be reading this aloud as you drove, exploring the Hadrian Wall and St Bede's writings.
The Million-Dollar Man, Lana del Rey
... hold me tight, and we'll have one more hour ...
... hold me tight, and we'll have one more hour ...
Saturday, August 2, 2014
On The Brink Of Life's Dividing Sea
Here is a most wonderful sonnet by Christina Rossetti, "An Echo from Willow-Wood" (ca. 1870):
Two gazed into a pool, he gazed and she,
Each eyed the other's aspect, she and he,
Lilies upon the surface, deep below
Two gazed into a pool, he gazed and she,
Not hand in hand, yet heart in heart, I think,As on the brink of parting which must be,
Pale and reluctant on the water's brink,
Each eyed the other's aspect, she and he,
Each felt one hungering heart leap up and sink,There on the brink of life's dividing sea.
Each tasted bitterness which both must drink,
Lilies upon the surface, deep below
Two wistful faces craving each for each,A sudden ripple made the faces flow,
Resolute and reluctant without speech: --
One moment joined, to vanish out of reach:
So those hearts joined, and ah were parted so.
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