Classic Verse: King David to Coleridge

Poetica Erotica 04.04.2022 24:31 ↓

Enter : and abandon fears

Prior & several lady poets: pleasure singing 28.03.2022 15:21 ↓

Alongside some songs , some  scurrilous  , some  scandalous & salacious.

Hot Mettled Lovers all 21.03.2022 19:21 ↓

When the great virgin Queen to Cupid did call

The Traveler Baked 13.03.2022 15:12 ↓

More from the  Master of two arts: Sweet& bitter: W. Blake

Orc And Urizen 07.03.2022 19:43 ↓

the Atlantic betwixt America and Albion

A song of triumph, a mystic dream , one sad sonnet. 28.02.2022 22:09 ↓

A parable, a sonnet cycle , a song  and Shakepeare's 89th.

IT WON'T BE LONG 21.02.2022 21:38 ↓

Venus and Cupid

An odd Couple : 14.02.2022 12:05 ↓

Old Poe, Bountifull Spenser

THE TRANSGRESSORS 07.02.2022 18:20 ↓

"They were thrust down and unable to arise" From the songs composed in the court of David in Jerusalem

Not one of the Best 31.01.2022 29:18 ↓

A mess of Pottage for FEBRUARE (Spencer's Febuary ) ; and a touch of Ovid, by Merlin Marlow excavated.

We be three ; from 'nother Century 24.01.2022 28:21 ↓

Im bad : one more translation but its by Marlowe; who could resist that?  Plus : bonus apearances by the Great SpenStar , and the Donnybrook of Christian Loue : 

Be not remiss to Feel the Kiss 18.01.2022 26:06 ↓

Of Roscommon's Poetic bliss

Come to Faierie Land : Do what thy Can 10.01.2022 28:40 ↓

Hear  whate'er Dryden saw ,as  he in secret arbour lay

Death of '21 03.01.2022 19:56 ↓

Herein we read from Psalms

Young ,Smollett ,Pope 27.12.2021 28:37 ↓

"how dull and how insensible a beast Is man, who yet would lord it over the rest" Dryden

By the Blind Beak of Bow Street's Brother. 20.12.2021 18:07 ↓

Some words expressing yearnings and thunder

Incipet Liber Secundus 13.12.2021 29:59 ↓

Mellifluous author: Chaucer's  Hous of Fame Abrupt ending but will continue nexte weeke

IIF YOU DARE 06.12.2021 22:18 ↓

THE INSIGHTS OF REV. MOORE AND R. BLAIR  FORMED AMONG TOMBS  , AMIDST THE NIGHT AIR

A Caledonian Spirit 29.11.2021 23:48 ↓

Its Mitchell that has win it! WITH HIS SATIRE AND PRAISE  FOR MERIT THAT OUTSHINES THE DAY

Dr.Swift let's loose to burn his frenemie's goose 22.11.2021 26:59 ↓

from  the 1720's :  Sev'ral  Jousts from  fine refine'd Gulliver's father   clouting  contemporarie's long snouts

Some praises Won and Some are abused 15.11.2021 12:43 ↓

Donne & Hughes

a third instance of a vow broken or not? 08.11.2021 26:43 ↓

From the 4th book of Ovid's; Metamorphoses . In the  vaunted verse of the assured 1520's translation  by Arthur Golding.

A Refuge from the Tragic 01.11.2021 24:32 ↓

"Slaughter  offerings of RIghteousness". Psalm 4

THE SMITHY O' GOLD 25.10.2021 29:34 ↓

IO, IO : OLIVER ORACLE

two funerals , One marriage, one burial 18.10.2021 20:18 ↓

Praise  from  Pomfret . Wisdom  from Young . From  the earls of Rochester and  Roscommon ; two tributes; respectively, to a Princess  and  to a dog.