Edith's Miscellany

Not Yet (from Poems : 1908) Time brought me many another friend                That loved me longer. New love was kind, but in the end...

In The Wizard of Oz little Dorothy learns that “there’s no place like home” although her adventures ended well and she made good friend...

Christmas (from The Tryout, 6, No. 11 : November 1920) The cottage hearth beams warm and bright,                The candles gaily glow;...

However much we’d like to start life all over again with a clean slate after a traumatising experience, it’s virtually impossible. If we li...

Reviews of three classical and two contemporary novels closed my Double Alphabet of Writers in December 2016. First, I entered The Hive b...

Winter Night (from Poems : 1867) How calm, how solemn, how sublime the scene! The moon in full-orbed glory sails above, And stars in m...

December (from John Burroughs: Songs of Nature : 1901) When the feud of hot and cold Leaves the autumn woodlands bare; When the year i...