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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…

VV2-french-painter

XML   PDF A Painter of a New Day                                                       I IT might not unreasonably be supposed that imaginative art would have been crushed under the…

VV2-farr-time

XML   PDF The Mystery of Time                                               Characters:                                   PAST.            PRESENT.            FUTURE THE PRESENT is seated on a throne a man in the prime of life, his eyes…

VV2-e-shifting

XML   PDF Scene-Shifting     I HOLD that a man’s work should take colour from his surround- ings, so writing as I do from the painting…

VV2-creswick-confidences

XML   PDF A Game of Confidences     “OH, there you are, Paul! How do you do? I’m so glad to see you again.” Mrs Vibart…