Robert Burns, Lincluden Abbey from Views of the Haunts and Homes of the British Poets, Oct. 19 1850.
Robert Burns, Lincluden Abbey from Views of the Haunts and Homes of the British Poets, Oct. 19 1850.
“The mood of mind which comes over you here is that of unwritten poetry.
When one thinks of Burns wandering amid this congenial nature, where the young now wander and sing his songs, one is apt to forget that he bore with him a sad heart and a sinking frame.”
— William Howitt
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Burleigh House, where John Dryden composed some of his translation of Virgil.
Those who have homes, when home they do repair,
To a last lodging call their wandering friends:
Their short uneasy sleeps are broke with care,
To look how near their own destruction tends.
Those who have none, sit round where once it was,
And with full eyes each wonted room require;
Haunting the yet warm ashes of the place,
As murder’d men walk where they did expire.
— John Dryden, from “Annus Mirabilis”
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Pictured: Stella’s Cottage, from Views of the Haunts and Homes of the British Poets (Un-Gyve Press)
No bloom of youth can ever blind
The cracks and wrinkles of your mind:
All men of sense will pass your door,
And crowd to Stella’s at four-score.
— Jonathan Swift, from “Stella’s Birth-day”
Read More"But we go with the other book: the one of your life, told from your heart, straight to the point, "a calzón quitao" (without pants on) as our Puerto Rican brothers say ..."
'Pero vamos con el otro libro: el de tu vida, contada desde tu corazón, "a calzón quitao" como dicen nuestros hermanos boricuas...'
Read MoreWe, a bunch of greencard Irish,
vamp it under the cathedral arches
of Brooklyn Bridge that’s strung like a harp.
‘We Will Not Play the Harp Backward Now, No’ Selected Delanty
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