Edith's Miscellany

Ostern (aus Schulter an Schulter. Kriegsgedichte : 1915) Noch bläst es scharf vom Bergwaldkamm, Wenn abendlich die Sonne schei...

Song (from Kéramos and Other Poems : 1878) Stay, stay at home, my heart, and rest; Home-keeping hearts are happiest, For those that wa...

Loneliness (from The Heart of a Woman : 1906) Dear, I am lonely, for the bay is still      As any hill-girt lake; the long brown beach ...

Spring (from Robert Bridges (ed.). Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins : 1918) Nothing is so beautiful as spring—      When weeds, in wheels...

Many dream of a secluded life in the country although it certainly isn’t right for everybody. Those who are used to the permanent commot...

My reads of three years ago were diverse as ever and comprised three contemporary and two classical works of literature from the pens of fe...

The Idea (from Songs, Ballads and a Garden Play : 1888) Beneath this worlcj of stars and flowers      That rolls in visible deity, I d...