Were you there?

On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer Much have I travell’d in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; Round many western islands have I been Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been told That deep-brow’d Homer ruled as his demesne; Yet did I […]

  The Wind that Shakes the Barley   There’s music in my heart all day, I hear it late and early, It comes from fields are far away, The wind that shakes the barley.   Above the uplands drenched with dew The sky hangs soft and pearly, An emerald world is listening to The wind […]