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Street Entertainers: W H Auden
When I was a child, the streets of any city were full of street vendors and street entertainers of every kind, and of the latter the Italian organ-grinder with his monkey was one of the most endearing. Today, officialdom seems … Continue reading
O Tell Me the Truth About Love: W.H. Auden
Some say love’s a little boy, And some say it’s a bird, Some say it makes the world go around, Some say that’s absurd, And when I asked the man next-door, Who looked as if he knew, His wife got … Continue reading
Funeral Blues: W H Auden
There are many readings of this on You Tube, but I think my favourite is this scene from ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral‘. Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, … Continue reading
Vertical And Horizontal Men: W H Auden
Let us honour if we can The vertical man Though we value none But the horizontal one. W H Auden Poems The image is: Tomb effigy of George Snygge, died 11 November 1617, w:St Stephen’s Church, Bristol via Wikimedia
The Fall Of Icarus by Pieter Brueghel: W H Auden
[*About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters; how well, they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along;] How, when the aged are reverently, … Continue reading
Love: W H Auden
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. W H Auden The image is copyright: Javier Brosch via Shutterstock
Looking Back: W H Auden
When I look back at the three or four choices in my life which have been decisive, I find that, at the time I made them, I had very little sense of the seriousness of what I was doing and … Continue reading
Posted in Prose
Tagged Decisions, life's choices, life's journey, life's paths, rivers, Rubicons, Streams, W H Auden
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Literature: Justin Richardson
For years a secret shame destroyed my peace— I’d not read Eliot, Auden or MacNeice. But then I had a thought that brought me hope— Neither had Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Pope. Justin Richardson 1900-1975 Take Heart, Illiterates Provenance is problematic … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry
Tagged Alexander Pope, Chaucer, Justin Richardson, Louis MacNeice, Milton, peace, secret shame, Shakespeare, T S Eliot, W H Auden
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Musee Des Beaux Arts: W H Auden
About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters: how well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window Or just walking dully along. Wystan Hugh Auden (1907-1973) The illustration … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry
Tagged Jan Steen, old masters, Suffering, toledo museum, W H Auden, weep and you weep alone, wystan hugh auden
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Questions And Answers: W H Auden and Rodin
To ask the hard question is simple W H Auden The illustration is Le Penseur (The Thinker) by Rodin at the Musée Rodin in Paris uploaded to Wikimedia by AndrewHorne Every parent knows this by experience: children begin asking profound … Continue reading
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