by Laurie Bluedorn | Nov 28, 2012 | Children's Books, Literature, Reading Aloud
One big problem with reading this book. You will be driven to find all of John Buchan’s works, and most are out of print.
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 17, 2012 | Literature, Logic
“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less.” “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.” “The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty,...
