Poems for Halloween A gypsy fire is on the hearth, Sign of the carnival of mirth; Through the dun fields and from the glade Flash merry folk in masquerade, For this is Halloween! -Unknown A house is never still in darkness to those who listen intently; there is a whispering in distant chambers, an unearthly…
31 Days of Halloween – October 15
A sad, wistful poem, from the midst of WWI, for today’s post. Hallow-E’en, 1915 Winifred M. Letts Will you come back to us, men of our hearts, to-night In the misty close of the brief October day? Will you leave the alien graves where you sleep and steal away To see the gables and eaves…
POEM – April 30
Excerpted from Beowulf (modern English translation) BY ANONYMOUS TRANSLATED BY FRANCES B. GRUMMERE LO, praise of the prowess of people-kings of spear-armed Danes, in days long sped, we have heard, and what honor the athelings won! Oft Scyld the Scefing from squadroned foes, from many a tribe, the mead-bench tore, awing the earls. Since erst…
POEM – April 29
On Fatalism BY THE IMAM SHAFAY MOHAMMED BEN IDRIS (767 – 840 CE) Not always wealth, not always force, A splendid destiny commands; The lordly vulture gnaws the corse That rots upon yon barren sands. Nor want nor weakness still conspires To bind us to a sordid state; The fly, that with a touch expires,…
POEM – April 28
The Land of Nod BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON From Breakfast on through all the day At home among my friends I stay, But every night I go abroad Afar into the land of Nod. All by myself I have to go, With none to tell me what to do– All alone beside the streams And…