life

IMPORTANT NOTICE from kendrive ^Pro 1 day old

REVISED SCHEDULE I now have SIX blogs on the Internet and I am beginning find them a struggle to manage on a regular daily basis. They are taking ...

THE ROCK from kendrive ^Pro 2 days old

[ ... ] of life: "Faith in faith established evermore". However, I am sure it has eroded over the years and is not so steadfast and timeless as the ...

THE CLIFFSIDE PATH from kendrive ^Pro 3 days old

[ ... ] stand. Life and love seek harbourage on the landward side: Wind is lord and change is sovereign of the strand. Friend, though man be less than ...

THE SEABOARD from kendrive ^Pro 4 days old

[ ... ] in life - our hopes and disappointments: "The goal that is not, and ever again the goal" Somehow the seaside makes you reflect in that way, ...

THE PLAY'S THE THING from kendrive ^Pro 5 days old

STAGE LOVE When the game began between them for a jest, He played king and she played queen to match the best; Laughter soft as tears, and tears that ...

WHO IS SHE? from kendrive ^Pro 6 days old

[ ... ] life? I have seen it suggested that it could be Swinburne's wife, lost in some kind of dementia that makes her no longer recognise her loved ...

THE TIME OF LOVERS IS SHORT from kendrive ^Pro 7 days old

Today's poem has nine verses and I feel it is overlong for posting here in its entirety. Many blog readers are impatient and they are deterred by Swinburne's ...

SOFT, SMALL AND SWEET from kendrive ^Pro 7 days old

A CLASP OF HANDS Soft, small, and sweet as sunniest flowers That bask in heavenly heat When bud by bud breaks, breathes, and cowers, Soft, small, ...

PUT IN THE SICKLES AND REAP from kendrive ^Pro 9 days old

This is one of Swinburne's longer poems. It is about gathering in the corn at harvest time. Or is it? I suggest that is a metaphor for war and the ...

CLEO from kendrive ^Pro 10 days old

[ ... ] and life and death, On hate that cleaves and love that clings, All that is brought forth of man's breath And perisheth with what it brings. She ...