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Welcome to my blog: Below right you’ve got links to my most recent stuff. Below left are links to all the poems. Go to Browning to Donne to Dickinson (And plenty more) to get some info on me, and to see me play harmonica with my nose.
Sunday, February 24, 2013
Friday, October 28, 2011
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No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;
Am an attendant lord, one that will do
To swell a progress, start a scene or two,
Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool,
Deferential, glad to be of use,
Politic, cautious, and meticulous;
Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse;
At times, indeed, almost ridiculous--
Almost, at times, the Fool.
I grow old ... I grow...
Friday, September 30, 2011
For I have known them all already, known them all:
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;
I know the voices dying with a dying fall
Beneath the music from a farther room.
So how should I presume?
And I have known the eyes already, known them all--
The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase,
And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin,
...
Monday, September 12, 2011
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
S'io credesse che mia risposta fosse
A persona che mai tornasse al mondo,
Questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse.
Ma perciocche giammai di questo fondo
Non torno vivo alcun, s'i'odo il vero,
Senza tema d'infamia ti rispondo.
Thursday, September 8, 2011
The General Prologue
Whan that aprill with his shoures soote 1
The droghte of march hath perced to the roote, 2