Clik here to view.
Crossing the bar…
‘Crossing The Bar’ by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Poem with text Tennyson wrote “Crossing the Bar” in 1889, three years before he died. The poem describes his placid and accepting attitude toward death....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Build for yourself a strong box…
Build for yourself a strong box, Fashion each part with care; When it’s strong as your hand can make it, Put all your troubles there; Hide there all thought of your failures, And each bitter cup...
View ArticleClik here to view.
By their deeds you shall know them
The poem ‘Seagull’ was by Nazi collaborator, Priest, and hate preacher Cyriel Verschaeve from Flanders, whose political pamphlets likened Jews to weeds that needed wiping out. The EU’s Herman Van...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Carry on! Carry on!
It’s easy to fight when everything’s right, And you’re mad with the thrill and the glory; It’s easy to cheer when victory’s near, And wallow in fields that are gory. It’s a different song when...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Beowulf’s golden warriors
Anglo-Saxon hoard revealed: 4,000 pieces of stunning handcrafted treasure hint that Beowulf’s description of ‘golden warriors’ is true! Click pics to enlarge An incredible hoard of precious...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The female of the species…
When the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride, He shouts to scare the monster, who will often turn aside. But the she-bear thus accosted rends the peasant tooth and nail. For the female of...
View ArticleClaude Debussy ~ ‘Clair de lune’
‘Clair de lune’ Just Because… I see the moon, The moon sees me ‘Gawd’ bless the moon, And ‘Gawd’ bless me… A poem from when I was a young lad; without a care in the world. Yours Aye.
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Cremation of Sam McGee
The Cremation of Sam McGee by Robert W. Service There are strange things done in the midnight sun By the men who moil for gold; The Arctic trails have their secret tales That would make your blood run...
View ArticleIf…
If… Rudyard Kipling If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Hell hath no fury…
Like a woman scorned! Researchers found that being rejected by an attractive man actually makes a woman more likely to turn down an unattractive one. It is as if distancing herself from the...
View Article
