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Sad but interesting bio. I have a Great-Uncle who escaped the USSR.
Enjoyed the poem, especially the last stanza: "Thus must it be, when willingly you strive
throughout a long and uncomplaining life,
committed to one goal: to give yourself!
And silently to grow and to bear fruit." :)
"Do you know you have asked for the costliest thing" - Mary T. Lathrap; A Woman's Answer to a Man's Question... https://www.potw.org/archive/potw254.html
A Woman's Answer to a Man's Question..Innovative in the sense that this theme is usually approached by male poets. And she is a 19C poet. Somewhat obsessed with shirts and socks though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Torrans_Lathrap
"Earth has not anything to show more fair:" "Composed upon Westminster Bridge", Sept. 3, 1802
https://www.potw.org/archive/potw370.html
Enjoyed her bio :)
Wonderful poem by Wordsworth.
"For love of the roving foot" - William Bliss Carman; A Good-By... https://www.poetrycat.com/william-bl...rman/a-good-by
Enjoyed the quatrain!
Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread.
A poem by*H. P. Nichols
Give us this day our daily bread;
Oh! children, when you pray,
And morn and night repeat these words,
Think what it is you say.
You never asked a piece of bread,
And had that wish denied;
For food to eat, and some to spare,
Has always been supplied.
But o'er the ocean, many a cheek
With want grows thin and pale;
And many suffer like the boy
Of whom I tell this tale.
He lay upon some scattered straw,--
His strength was almost gone,--
And, in a feeble voice, he cried,
"Give me three grains of corn!"
Three grains from out his jacket torn,
His trembling mother drew,
'Twas all she had--she gave them him,
Though she was starving too!
Be very grateful, children, then,
For all that you enjoy;
Remembering, as you say those words,
The little Irish boy.
https://www.poetrycat.com/h-p-nichol...ur-daily-bread
* :)
"How many tears cross my cheeks." - Li Yu; How Many Tears?... https://www.writtenchinese.com/five-...-translations/
AI! What does the symbol before the emoji mean?
"In the midway of this our mortal life," "The Divine Comedy by Dante: The Vision of Hell, Or The Inferno: Canto I by Dante Alighieri
https://www.poetrycat.com/dante-alig...nferno-canto-i
lol...... that being defined I borrowed your (*) as a reference mark to reference the poem/author - AND such that I believe H.P. may be a 5x5 cousin of mine, hence :)Quote:
What does (*) stand for?
noun. a small starlike symbol (*), used in writing and printing as a reference mark or to indicate omission, doubtful matter, etc. Linguistics. the figure of a star (*) used to mark an utterance that would be considered ungrammatical or otherwise unacceptable by native speakers of a language, as in * I enjoy to ski. - Asterisk Definition & Meaning - Dictionary.com
The introduction of Virgil as Dante's guide. I didn't recall the "Lions, and Tigers, and Bears, OH MY !" moment in S3, S4, S5 (lol).
"Jenny, Jenny, dry thi ee," - John Hartley; Advice to Jenny.... http://www.public-domain-poetry.com/...to-jenny-17944
re:I see! Let´s hope he is your 5x5 cousin. I know that you have read "The Inferno" of The Divine Comedy, but I like the beginning so much, I thought I could use it.
lololol! What a good defense of male "roaming"! But what made me really glad was that I understood all the dialect.
"THE keen stars were twinkling," "To Jane: The Keen Stars Were Twinkling"
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/shell01.html#7
Such a delightful poem by Shelley :) ... https://www.englishliterature.info/2...twinkling.html
"Like a Dog with a bottle, fast ti'd to his tail," - Thomas Flatman; The Batchelors Song... https://www.potw.org/archive/potw267.html
Lol!
Poem of the Week
PotW.org
Founded August 1996<** PotW #15 **>This Week's Poem
Ben Jonson (1572-1637)
fromThe Masque of the Gypsies
The faiery beame upon you,
The starres to glister on you,
A Moone of light,
In the Noone of night,
Till the Fire-Drake hath o're-gone you.
The Wheele of Fortune guide you,
The Boy with the Bow beside you,
Runne aye in the way
Till the Bird of day,
And the luckyer lot betide you.
Jonson was the first Poet Laureate of England, serving from 1616 until 1637.
The above poem appeared in:*Q. Horatious Flaccus: His Art of Poetry*which was Englished by Ben Jonson, and printed by J.Okes in London in 1640 for John Benson. A copy of its text can be found in:
Jonson, Ben.*The Gypsies Metamorphosed. George Watson Cole, ed. New York: The Century Co., 1931.
Ill change the poem above tomorrow, when on PC.
Enjoyed. Charming poem of a gypsy's blessing. Looking forward to your next poem :)
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
I only noticed after posting and editing, that the first line didn´t start with "m".
So here is the "m" poem:
"Men my brothers who after us live,"."The Ballad Of The Hanged Men" by François Villon
https://www.poetrycat.com/francois-v...the-hanged-men
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Villon
https://alchetron.com/Eug%C3%A8ne-Ysa%C3%BFe
Had to google "þþ": 'thorn' evidently, though uncertain... https://www.google.com/search?client...UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
After that distraction was sidelined I found the poem both morbid and hopeful. Found a lengthier translation here... https://www.google.com/search?client...UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
A rogue first and a poet second - quite a couplet. This part of the wiki article made me smile: "The Archy and Mehitabel poems of Don Marquis include a poem by a cat who is Villon reincarnated." I believe that is how I was first introduced to Villon :) Poem is on Pg 222 of the .pdf or Pg 219 in the text: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/v...ontext=zeabook
This wiki citation I found interesting (along with the other Music facts): "Villon was an influence on American musician Bob Dylan."
Wonderful sonata :)
"Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods," - William Allingham; Autumnal Sonnet
... https://www.poetrycat.com/william-al...utumnal-sonnet
Editing difficult... found an illustration with "Villon" and archy and mehitabel... https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-c...a/7211-94159.s
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor