Excerpted from Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot Macavity’s a Mystery Cat: he’s called the Hidden Paw— For he’s the master criminal who can defy the Law. He’s the bafflement of Scotland Yard, the Flying Squad’s despair: For when they reach the scene of crime—Macavity’s not there! Macavity, Macavity, there’s no…
POEM – April 4
Introduction to the Songs of Innocence by William Blake Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me: ‘Pipe a song about a Lamb!’ So I piped with merry cheer. ‘Piper, pipe that song again;’ So I piped: he wept to…
POEM – April 3
She Was a Phantom of Delight BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment’s ornament; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight’s, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful…
POEM: April 2
Excerpted from ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE by John Keats via Brooklyn Museum MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: ‘Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too…
National Poetry Month – April 2014
April is National Poetry Month! I will be posting some of my favorite poems — one a day — during the month of April. Please comment, send suggestions and interact. Poetry is fluid! For more information about National Poetry Month, click here.