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Now Winter Nights Enlarge by Thomas Campion Now winter nights enlarge This number of their hours; And clouds their storms discharge Upon the airy towers. Let now the chimneys blaze And cups o’erflow with wine, Let well-tuned words amaze With harmony divine. Now yellow waxen lights Shall wait on honey love While youthful revels, masques, […]

November No sun – no moon! No morn – no noon – No dawn – no dusk – no proper time of day. No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease, No comfortable feel in any member – No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds! – November! […]

Semerwater Seeing it now in winter sun, It seems so far removed From the dark tale Of a cursed village drowned and gone. Only a line of clouds remain To cast forebodings on The lake and leave The faint threat of a squall of rain. by Alan Hartley . . . Wednesday 30th October 2013 […]