by Laurie Bluedorn | Dec 20, 2012 | Art, Art/Poetry Study, Literature
Ye sons of earth prepare the plough by William Cowper (1731-1800) Ye sons of earth prepare the plough, Break up your fallow ground! The Sower is gone forth to sow, And scatter blessings round. The seed that finds a stony soil Shoots forth a hasty blade; But ill repays...
by Laurie Bluedorn | Oct 16, 2012 | Art, Art/Poetry Study, Literature
Bed in Summer by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer quite the other way, I have to go to bed by day. I have to go to bed and see The birds still hopping on the tree, Or hear the grown-up...
by Laurie Bluedorn | Oct 11, 2012 | Art, Art/Poetry Study, Literature
Epitaph on a Hare by William Cowper, 1783 Here lies, whom hound did ne’er pursue, Nor swifter greyhound follow, Whose foot ne’er tainted morning dew, Nor ear heard huntsman’s Hallo’, Old Tiney, surliest of his kind, Who, nurs’d with...
by Laurie Bluedorn | Sep 25, 2012 | Art, Art/Poetry Study, Literature
Sonnet On The Sea by John Keats (1795 – 1821) It keeps eternal whisperings around Desolate shores, and with its mighty swell Gluts twice ten thousand caverns, till the spell Of Hecate leaves them their old shadowy sound. Often ’tis in such gentle temper found...
by Laurie Bluedorn | Sep 19, 2012 | Art, Art/Poetry Study, Literature
Ye Shepherds Tell Me, song composed and arranged by Joseph Mazzinghi (1765-1844) Ye Shepherds tell me, tell me have you seen, have you seen my Flora pass this way? In shape and feature beauty’s queen. In pastoral, in pastoral array. Shepherds tell me, tell me...
by Laurie Bluedorn | Sep 11, 2012 | Art, Art/Poetry Study, Literature
O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman, 1865 O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done; The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won; The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim...
