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VV2-joy-sonnet

XML   PDF [At Twilight] A Sonnet on Love (From the French of Claudius Popelin)     CLOSE thine eyes, O close thine eyes, my charming dove,        O…

VV2-joyce-twosongs

XML   PDF Two Songs                                           I            WHAT counsel has the hooded moon             Put in thy heart, my shyly sweet,             Of Love in ancient plenilune,             Glory and…

VV2-joy-love

XML   PDF Love     AH, sweet, there is but little time for love,            Though day be heaped on day, and night on night,            Climbing the skies beyond…

VV2-joy-prose

XML   PDF Five Poems in Prose THERE was a queen of goodness and of beauty living in a lonely wood where, at morn and…

VV2-ramsden-worlds

XML   PDF Two Worlds             BY J. P. JACOBSEN         An English Rendering from the Danish by Hermione         Ramsden THE Salzach is not a cheerful river,…

VV2-haynes-bereavement

XML   PDF A Study in Bereavement                    WRITTEN BY MR THOMAS PARKER IN 1954 AN old man, looking back on life, usually remembers a few…

VV2-gyles-pierrot

XML   PDF Pierrot             O SOME there are who bury deep            Lost joy in a grave far out of sight,            Saying, “O trouble me not, but sleep            In…

VV2-gray-veritas

XML   PDF Via Vita Veritas             WE watch the bud in spring, inclining ear             To hear the young leaf lisping in the sheath;             We count…

VV2-gosse-ecstasy

XML   PDF The Intellectual Ecstasy             “Hinc Stygias ebrius hausit aquas”                        DIOGENES LAERTIUS                                     I             OF Epicurus it is told             That growing weak and faint and cold,            And…

VV2-gogarty-twosongs

XML   PDF Two Songs                                              I             MY Love is dark, but she is fair;                As dark as damask roses are,             As dark as woodland lake-water,                 Which…